Math & PTE Teachers Go to Summer Camp

Over 20 educators from varying backgrounds (mathematics, PTE, counseling, administration) attended the two day in-service titled, "2009 Summer Math Camp for Math & PTE Teachers," June 30 & July 1. With tours the first day to ATK, St. Joseph Regional Medical Center and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. attendees learned how math is used daily in the "world of work."  The second day this group gleaned information not only from LCSC and LHS's engineering-based technical math curriculum which pulls examples from industry/PTE courses but also from each other.  Collectively the group identified a list of the most challenging math concepts facing students today.  Those attendees who chose to write a paper for their in-service credit were tasked with writing the "perfect lesson."  These various lessons will not only be used by the attendees but also have the potential to be used as a script for a web video project through LCSC.  This web project would bring math instructors and industries to create a 5-minute lesson on a specific math principal/concept.