Welcome to Week 6 of AusPREP Online!
In this newsletter, you'll find information about:
- This week's lesson module - Logic
- Weekly schedule and virtual office hours
- Meet the instructor of the week - Mr. Reyes
- Featured resources for extending learning
- How to access AusPREP Online
- Registration information
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If you haven't registered for AusPREP Online yet, there is still time!
Registration is open throughout the summer
. Click the Register Now link, or scroll down for more information on registration.
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The Logic lessons will enable students to apply deductive reasoning to arrive at valid conclusions in complicated situations. The rules of logic will help students evaluate the vast array of claims facing you as a consumer, citizen, student and human being. Understanding logic will allow students to construct better and more convincing arguments of their own therefore becoming a more effective advocate for their beliefs. Topics will include: Statements and their negations, truth values of conjunction, disjunction, conditionals and bi-conditional statements.
The Set Theory lessons investigate the need to sort and organize information obtained to find order and meaning by classifying things into collections. We will analyze a variety of collections ranging from surveys to types of number systems. Topics include: Set membership, Subsets, set operations and Venn diagrams.
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Office hours are optional. This time is for students to ask questions of the instructor and check-in with us and each other. We've added extra Computer Science hours this week so you have more chances to engage with the instructors and ask questions.
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Problem Solving Virtual Office Hours
with Mr. Reyes
Tuesday, July 14th, 11 am-12:30 pm
Meeting ID: 967 1972 0899
Password: 466472
One tap mobile
+13462487799,,96719720899# US (Houston)
+16699006833,,96719720899# US (San Jose)
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Mr. Eric Reyes is a Teacher at Austin High School and instructor for AusPREP.
I have over 14 years experience teaching Algebra I and II, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Discrete math, Logic and Problem Solving. I've been teaching high school for 14 years and for AusPREP for 12 years. My education includes a B.S in Mathematics University of Texas at Austin with Teaching Certification from UTeach Program University of Texas at Austin.
My Teaching philosophy is: Provide an opportunity for all students of all backgrounds to learn in a stimulating environment and grow mentally and emotionally in order for them to meet their full potential.
Fun Fact: I attended PREP (TexPREP) as a student in 1998 at the University of Texas at El Paso campus.
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In addition to AusPREP Online, we are happy to connect participants to high-quality resources available from outside sources that will extend learning and enrichment. The links will also be accessible via the
AusPREP homepage
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here
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Transum Logic Activities
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Site of math resources to students, parents, and teachers, including this page of logic activities. All resources are available for free, but access to some answers requires a paid account - primarily for the Logic Starters. The right column includes links to completely open activities, videos and teacher resources. Explore the full site for puzzles and activities related to a wide variety of math topics.
Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival Activities Archive
- In order to help families cope with the COVID-19 situation, the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival (JRMF) is please to announce the launching of the JRMF Webinar Series. Available in English and Spanish. Link takes you to their extensive online Activity Archive. Audience: All ages, Parents, Educators
NROC Project Hippocampus
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Hippocampus is an open-source project that aims to gather and make all kinds of educational material available for kids and teenagers. The platform has a great amount of multimedia content—videos, simulations, and graphics—covering subjects like math, biology, chemistry physics, and earth science. Free and no login required.
Project Exploration STEM@home
- Project Exploration has created transformative learning opportunities for youth underrepresented in the sciences –particularly students of color and girls – for more than 20 years. Activities are designed to guide young people through fun, hands-on STEM activities to do with simple materials they should already have at home. Audience: K-12 youth, Families, Educators
Bay Area Discovery Museum
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This Bay Area Discovery Museum's (BADM) series is full of fun, research-backed learning experiences you can do with your children to inspire creative problem solving. Within each theme (Science & Math, Body & Brain, Talk & Play), you’ll find both step-by-step videos and activities with written-out instructions. Additionally BADM has a Creativity Catapult for kids to explore activities that boost creativity. Audience: K-12 Youth, parents, teachers
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How to Access AusPREP Online
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How to access AusPREP Online
We are using an online learning platform, Canvas, to host the AusPREP Online lesson modules. Some students may be familiar with this platform (Blend) from their home school districts.
Once registered, we will create an account on Canvas for this course for you. After the account is created, you will receive an email asking you to complete your registration and create a password for Canvas.
To return to the AusPREP Online course after your password has been created. You will use
this portal
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For families with multiple students wanting to access AusPREP Online, it is recommended you create separate accounts using different email addresses for each student to track progress through the course material. Please submit separate registration request for each student.
Please reach out to us if you have any issues logging on or accessing materials. We are here to help! Contact us at
ausprep@htu.edu.
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AusPREP Online Registration
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Registration is still open!
AusPREP Online is series of self-paced lessons you can access anytime free of charge.
We will accept new student registrations anytime this summer. Click the "Register Now" ribbon to be taken to the registration request form,
also found here
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Each week, the lessons are presented as a 5-day module. We are launching one new module a week, but all lessons will be available for the entire summer once they are released. So, students are free to work on them anytime.
If you have registered, but haven't received your email confirmation, please hold tight for us!
We are working to process registration requests as quickly as possible.
You will receive an email asking you to complete your registration followed by the link to create an account for Canvas.
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Thank you for your continued support of AusPREP and patience this summer. We will be adding content and times to connect online throughout the summer. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might be interested in AusPREP.
We look forward to the time when we can host everyone on campus again in 2021. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Magid, AusPREP Director,
kmagid@htu.edu
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Austin Pre-Freshman Engineering Program (AusPREP) at Huston-Tillotson University is one of the Texas Pre-Freshman Engineering Programs (TexPREP) located on college campuses in Texas. PREP was founded to identify high achieving middle and high school students with the potential and interest in becoming scientists and engineers and to reinforce them in the pursuit of these fields.
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