Learning Objectives – Rivers of Identity

1. Identify & understand numerical ideas in diverse material.
2. Assess the validity of numerical ideas.
3. Utilize written, visual, and spoken expression to express mathematical information in useful ways to a diverse audience.
4. Increase comfort and confidence levels in use of mathematical concepts to solve problems and express ideas.
5. Utilize numeracy in analyzing and interpreting historical development.
6. Understand and apply proportional reasoning as well as linear and exponential models to current environmental concerns.
7. Visit quantitative reasoning and become friends with it in its cognitive home (possess productive disposition toward quantitative reasoning skills).
8. Analyze the intersection of Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans in the historical development of the Pacific Northwest.
9. Describe and analyze the environmental issues – problems and solutions - of the Pacific Northwest bioregion.
10. Recognize and understand the issues and concerns of the biotechnology industry.
11. Sustain a focused, coherent essay that supports an idea and is free of grammar and editing errors.
12. Use research to find reliable published material that supports an idea.
13. Analyze, interpret, and synthesize a variety of researched material in order to create effective ideas and perspectives.