{"590254":{"#nid":"590254","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alumna Teena Carroll Uses Calculus in Health Reform","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlumna Teena Carroll (\u0026#39;08) was recently featured in her university newspaper \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.snc.edu\/communications\/enews\/1109\/mathreform.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E@\u0026nbsp;St.\u0026nbsp;Norbert\u003C\/a\u003E helping her calculus students improve their understanding of calculus by working real-life problems arising out of the current debate on health care reform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the article, she\u0026rsquo;s encouraging her students to look critically at the data. Taking politics out of the equation, Teena asks her class to model out-of-pocket expenses by comparing two different insurance plans and to look at the raw data of per-capita health care spending in different countries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer students are getting a very comprehensive look at ways mathematicians talk about functions and data. And, for her, every math class is motivated to its core by real-world problems because calculus, she says, was developed in response to real-world problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alumna Teena Carroll (\u002708) was recently featured in her university newspaper @ St. Norbert helping her calculus students improve their understanding of calculus by working real-life problems arising out of the current debate on health care reform. "}],"uid":"34469","created_gmt":"2017-04-12 14:19:46","changed_gmt":"2017-04-12 14:19:46","author":"nmcleish3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"590253":{"id":"590253","type":"image","title":"Teena Carroll","body":null,"created":"1492006726","gmt_created":"2017-04-12 14:18:46","changed":"1492006726","gmt_changed":"2017-04-12 14:18:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224876","name":"teena-carroll-news_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teena-carroll-news_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teena-carroll-news_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19039,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/teena-carroll-news_1.jpg?itok=J3oaldBg"}}},"media_ids":["590253"],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}