1995 - The Teams Go to Work

As the Maricopa Mathematics Consortium got underway, several teams were formed to help guide the project. Members of these teams were predominantly Maricopa Community College mathematics instructors. Each team set goals and meeting times for the year and accomplished those goals. Many of the teams met for several years, each year setting forth a new goal.

During the spring and summer of 1995, the M2C Curriculum Team (formerly the Content and Structure Teams) and the Evaluation Team met to further develop the curriculum. Each module outline was reviewed and revised, based on comments gathered from instructors. A module description was written for many new modules. The assessment and evaluation team orginally was formed to assess and evaluate progress on grants and to develop instruments and surveys to assist in that assessment. Later it developed assessment and evaluation tools for the modules. The professional development team's goal was to develop and implement a professional development program that supports the efforts of the Maricopa Mathematics Consortium. It planned activities and invited guest speakers for all of the mathematics instructors in the Maricopa Community College District.

The writing team went to work writing three of the proposed modules in order to illustrate how this proposed curriculum would look in practice. Linear Behavior, Data and Graphs, and Probability were the three modules selected. To help the project hold its philosophical course was the purpose of the instructional design team. This team led each of the M2C teams to develop a set of assumptions. These assumptions were synthesized into the results: Key Assumptions of the Maricopa Mathematics Consortium found in the The Fall 1995 Working Draft.