The Summer Institute was the creation of Fresno State Dean of Kremen School of Education & Human Development Randy Yerrick and his colleagues to design a contextualized learning experience to learn how to teach math for the Fresno K16 Collaborative cohort of paraprofessional who are currently working in schools of diverse communities who have expressed interest in math, physics,and biology and have also worked within the educational system and would like to complete teacher certification at Fresno State.
Traveling across the grounds for outdoor team math challenge activities. Teams solving outdoor math challenges with measuring tools. Some problems are harder than they look at first glance. Performing last minute checks to their proposed solution. Winners of the three triangle transit (“Triple T”) navigation challenge. Analyzing the free fall motion of objects using digital video analysis. Designing animal enclosures with maxima and minima analyses of perimeter fencing.