Improvements and Additions to College Algebra Instructional Materials

MAT 117 is ASU’s remedial math course that introduces basic topics in algebra. Its students and instructors alike have suggested improvements in their Aleks-based instructional materials (consisting of short videos and text explanations). The latter note that the explanations provided by Aleks sometimes leave students with an incomplete or superficial understanding of the course’s concepts, especially those, like function composition or quadratics, that prove critical to subsequent math courses like Precalculus (MAT 170). We remedy those issues by creating instructional videos covering relevant material and soliciting student feedback on them.