Reflections on teaching discrete math for the first time

ABSTRACT

Teaching a class for the first time is always a challenge. Add to the new experience a team-teaching approach and a professor teaching outside of his comfort zone, and things get even more complicated. In this article we evaluate our team-teaching of Discrete Math to computer science majors at the United States Military Academy. We share the aspects of the course that we think were successful as well as those that we would alter the next time around. This article should help any instructor as he/she prepares to teach a new course, particularly one in discrete mathematics.

REFERENCES

• 1: Peter B. Henderson , Rachelle DeCoste , Kevin L. Huggins, Preparing to teach discrete math for the first time, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.38 n.4, December 2006
• 2: http://teach.fcps.net/tr10/PowerPoint.htm
• 3: URL is http://www.dean.usma.edu/departments/math/people/DeCoste/dmfall06first.htm

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

Keywords:
discrete mathematics, teaching, team-teaching