Math Department Colloquium

  • Date: 09/29/2017
Speaker(s):
Fok-Shuen Leung, UBC Vantage College
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

Mathematics and Vantage college

Description: 

Vantage College is an academic program integrating content and language instruction for first-year international students at UBC. Specially designed MATH 100 and MATH 101 courses have been offered to Vantage Science students since the program started in 2014.In this presentation, I will give an overview of Vantage College, describe some innovations in first-year Mathematics instruction that have been developed in the program, and make some recommendations about how the Mathematics Department might work with Vantage College in the coming years.

Schedule: 

ESB 2012Fri 29 Sep 2017

3:00pm-4:00pm (Refreshments at the PIMS Lounge @2:30pm)