Lydia Wynn “Project Based Learning Pilot”

Wynn’s innovative teaching idea, “Project Based Learning Pilot,” is focused on designing projects that illustrate precalculus concepts. In the past, she has developed projects to teach her students about logarithms and exponents, oscillation, vectors and conic sections in space. Wynn plans to use the Voya grant to secure resources that will strengthen future projects. In the long term, she hopes to expand her project-based learning pilot by sharing her improved syllabus with teachers in different departments and creating interdisciplinary curriculum. Her ultimate goal is to show students how to use math to solve the problems they face on an everyday basis, which she believes will lead to personal growth and community improvement.