1. PDL Project By Larry Green Lake Tahoe Community College Catalogue of Mathematics Applications Found in Non-Mathematics Courses

2. Idea Began Five Years Ago  Full mind and body workout

3. OER Course Lectures

4. Courses

5. Where They Reside

6. Useless Word Problems  I have 23 coins in my pocket consisting of dimes and quarters that have total value of $3.65. How many dimes and how many quarters do I have?

7. Student Motivation  Why do I have to take this worthless math course?

8. Pilot Prior Quarters  The Hook  Universally Positive, Wanted more.

9. Computer Power: Beginning of the 20 th Century

10. Moore’s Law ▪The number of transistors doubles every two years.

11. Latest Data

12. Forecast

13. Computers reached the processor power of the fly brain in the year 2000.

14. Forecast Computers reached the processor power of the a mouse in 2012.

15. Forecast Computers will reach the processor power of the human brain in the year 2025

16. Forecast Computers will reach the combined processor power of all humans on earth in the year 2045.

17. Be Afraid

18. The Story of Mr. and Mrs. J

19. Mrs. J’s Dream

20. Reality

21. Survival Curve

22. Survival Equation

23. Productivity Equation

26. My New Neighbors

27. The End

28. Challenges

29. Solution

30. The Site  http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/applicati onscatalog/courselist.html http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/applicati onscatalog/courselist.html

31. How I Use the Site  An application a Day  Give introduction  Pause and have students fill in the details  Won’t be on the test  Refer to it as we learn

32. Student Reaction  Only positive comments  Time trap: move on  Best part of the class

33. Findings  No factoring other then difference of squares Should we care?  Regression analysis Now in Common Core

34. More Findings  Maclaurin Series Expansion of  Euler’s Equation

35. Questions?