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Course name
Patterns in Math
Institution
Howard University, Washington, DC
Instructor
Sankar Sitaraman
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Basic math
Course dates
2016-01-11 – 2016-04-29
Approximate number of student editors
8


Basic math for students who don't need a lot of math, including topics from functions, sequences, combinatorics and statistics and probability

Student Assigned Reviewing
Lcommins8654
Nycholstephens Patterns In Math Patterns In Math
Jmorgan92
Love&light1230

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Wednesday, 13 April 2016   |   Friday, 15 April 2016
In class - Wikipedia essentials
  • Overview of the course
  • Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
  • Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.



Handout: Editing Wikipedia


Assignment - Learn the basics
  • Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 18 April 2016   |   Wednesday, 20 April 2016   |   Friday, 22 April 2016
Assignment - Add to an article
  • Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.