Comments on: To help students succeed at math, two instructors have ‘flipped’ their classrooms

By: PCC Alum

PCC Alum — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 17:31:53 +0000

Greta Idea! But please take into consideration that not every student can afford paying for MyMathLab!! Maybe have those videos posted on D2L instead.

By: laura

laura — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:07:16 +0000

Jessica was a fabulous instructor and helped me succeed in a class I was petrified of! I am a huge fan of these flipped classrooms. It really helped me.

By: Paul Brubaker

Paul Brubaker — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:14:20 +0000

Good job PCC and professors. Math is for everyone and shouldn’t ever have to be scary or make anyone feel discouraged. I’d love to see higher education take this a step further and do away with the strictly sequential nature of the math curriculum. It places a great deal of pressure on students to master new concepts at a rate that may be unsustainable for them, as well as punishing students for perfectly natural gaps in understanding by saying “you are already supposed to know this, we don’t have time to cover that in this course”.

By: Austina Fong

Austina Fong — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:08:58 +0000

Such amazing work that Jessica and Wendy are doing. As a Calculus instructor, I love when their Precalculus students enter my classroom engaged and ready for success. They are both amazing teachers who genuinely care about students.

By: Cara Lee

Cara Lee — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:46:39 +0000

Awesome work, Jess and Wendy! Thanks for inspiring so many instructors to flip their classrooms!

By: Erick Garcia Chavez

Erick Garcia Chavez — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:56:21 +0000

I relate 100 percent with the student just trying to keep up through the long lectures in mth111. I’m happy that students won’t have to go through that with these novel ideas being implemented! It almost makes me want to take a math course again!

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:49:44 +0000

Hey you two Rock Stars! Congratulations on the recognition of your amazing efforts.
I should have got your autographs when I could afford them. Better yet, I got to have you both as teachers. You are the best!

By: Amy Carender

Amy Carender — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:24:54 +0000

I thought I was an English person, so I love that their website is anyonecanbeamathperson.com. It’s so true! I’m taking trigonometry with Wendy Fresh this term just because. Taking online classes with Rebecca Ross (who used Jessica Bernard’s videos, if I remember right) and now with Wendy has completely changed my perspective on math and science. It was a lot of work still, but having the online lectures is a real life-saver.
Now I get As in math! It seemed crazy that I would take online math and excel at it, but it really was better for me than a live classroom. PCC has excellent live math teachers, but online was how I learned best. I hope students see this article and try it. It might change their college experience.

By: Frank Goulard

Frank Goulard — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 03:33:21 +0000

Jessica and Wendy, nice!!

By: Ferdous Sarwary

Ferdous Sarwary — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:25:12 +0000

So proud of you both, Wendy and Jess!