Teachers at the Summer 2009 San Antonio area AMDM professional development - part of the first wave of yearlong professional support for teachers piloting the course.
Greater Texas Foundation awarded $410,000 to the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas to support the development of an Advanced Mathematical Decision Making (AMDM) mathematics capstone course. In response to the new graduation requirement that Texas high school students complete four years of mathematics, the Dana Center—in partnership with the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics (TASM)—utilized the funds over a two-year period to support the development of a rigorous and engaging capstone high school mathematics course designed to follow Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II.
The course material presents a very hands-on, real-world application approach to the uses and theories of mathematics. More specifically,
the course emphasizes statistics and financial applications, and it prepares students to use algebra, geometry, trigonometry and discrete mathematics to model a range of situations and solve problems.”
AMDM is designed to help students prepare for many non-mathematics intensive college majors. It will also serve students who might not be planning to attend college but instead enter into a workforce training program. The course is being piloted by 120 teachers in 90 Texas schools, as well as a few schools in Illinois and Indiana.
To learn more about the curriculum, visit the AMDM project website.
Read about what pilot teachers are saying about AMDM here.
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