High School Courses in IADM

IADM sets forth a body of material that is appropriate for most students at the high school level. The book is, however, addressed to the teacher as well as the student. When used in a high school class, the teacher should be prepared to interpret some of its ideas and to supplement its occasionally challenging Problems with routine exercises that reinforce the skills that IADM is intended to foster.

With this qualification in mind, IADM can be used as enrichment or as a stand-alone unit in the curriculum of a technologically inclined secondary school. In Fall, 1998, the first two chapters of IADM served as the basis for a University Extension course offered to motivated students at Davis Senior High School. This followed a similar experiment in Fall, 1997, where high school students were integrated into an IADM class for future teachers at UC Davis.

In Spring, 1999, two sections of IADM were offered to students enrolled in the Math-Science Institute of Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City. The instructors for this course are alumni of the 1997 and 1998 Teacher workshops in New York