Some felt the projects were the best part of the course. I find the feedback in the student's journal entries helpful in individualizing my response to student's concerns. As a result of journal entries I changed my statement about homework in the syllabus. The new syllabus specifies that I will assign some problems to be turned in for a grade. Several of the students in the class in the Fall have continued with the revised Math 106 this spring, 2000.
Group work seems to be going very well.
All students are participating. Overall most students like group work and feel they benefit from it. Students like open c' book tests. They perceive this as an applied class. In other words, for some, this is the first time they have seen math in real life situations.