Cody Perry

Transcript For me, the one of the biggest things that I tried to impress upon my students is that they really have to be critical thinkers and problem solvers, and we talk about how I’m not talk, you know, I’m not referring to math problems, per se. I’m talking about when you come up to […]

Transcript You know, there’s this idea that math is universal, and while you know the way numbers maybe work to be universal, you know the the underlying, you know, the pie is pie. I mean, but the way we teach it, the way we appreciate it, the way we understand it is not universal .

Transcript Well, part of it is because of social media. They’re only showing a partial picture of what’s going on. So when they see this really convoluted type of thing, that is not. The end goal, that’s one step towards that goal. And so the parents, you know, they see that and they get and

Transcript So one of the big things that you know, I stress with my students is. I kind of start with with discussions on how what their experience in math was like, what what happened when this happened or you know, what happened when you know you’ve got an answer wrong in class or on

Transcript So when when they come into the college, of course they have, you know, they’ve had multiple math classes in the arts and sciences. Of course, they’ve made it all the way through K twelve passing their star. And within the first three weeks, I have them do their baseline exam in their content.

Transcript I’m Cody Perry, I’m an assistant professor here. I teach the math methods or the math principles course as well as um. Assessment for instructional design, so anything dealing with data and mathematics is kind of my area of expertise and. My big focus as far as teaching is concerned, is helping students understand