Three-quarters of the participants filled in the pre-workshop survey.
Which courses are you interested in teaching in a modeling-based way?
Beginning Algebra 1/15 Pre-calculus and Algebra 1/15 Business Calc 1/15 Calc I 14/15 Calc II 13/15 Calc III 9/15 Linear Algebra 3/15 Differential Equations 7/15 Prob. Stats 4/15 Mathematical Modeling 1/15
Software experience:
Never Tried Infrequent Regularly Expert
Sage: 10 2 3
R: 11 1 1 1
MATLAB 6 5 2 2
Mathematica: 1 3 5 5 1
Maple: 3 2 4 5 1
Teaching with Software:
Abs. Not. Not Likely Possible Very Attractive Already Use
Sage: 1 4 6 4
R: 5 6 1 3
MATLAB: 2 5 6 1 1
Mathematica: 1 5 1 3 5
Maple: 2 5 3 3 2
Eight of 15 participants report that they already use one of the listed software packages in their teaching.
Of the 6 people who already use either Mathematica or Maple,
Abs. Not Not Likely Possible Very Attractive Already Use
Sage: 4 2
R: 3 2 1
MATLAB: 1 1 3 1
Authoring Software:
Communications:
Not surprisingly, everyone is either comfortable or very comfortable with email. There's less comfort with other tools, but everyone is interested in several of these: Google Docs, Dropbox, blogs, wikis, or Moodle.
Obstacles to Teaching Modeling-Based Calculus:
Huge Significant Little None
Textbook 8 4 2
Software
Student Skills 1 5 5 2
Faculty Skills 1 4 8 1
Examples 3 7 4
Cramped Syllabus 5 5 4
Colleagues 2 1 5 5
Prep time 1 6 6 1
Connections 2 3 8 1
Need to teach symbolics 3 3 7 1
To what extent should modeling shape the topics in calculus?
Not at all a little moderate a lot very much
3 1 8 1 2
Teach a whole course based on modeling?
Not at all a little moderate a lot very much
5 5 3 3