Kim Ward

Professor and Math Foundations Program Coordinator
Mathematical Sciences

Biography

Dr. Ward is in her eleventh year of serving as the Coordinator of the Math Foundations Program in her sixteenth year as STEP/CAP Math Coordinator. She is strongly committed to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students; especially students who are first-generation, from low-income families, fail to meet standardized admissions criteria or are from groups traditionally underrepresented on college campuses.

Research Interests

Curriculum Development
Mathematics Education
Mathematical Biology

Teaching Interests

Calculus I
Calculus II
Differential Equations

Publications

Ward, K. Y. & Larose, C. D. (2019). Assessing and Modeling Student Academic Practices and Performance in First-Year Mathematics Courses in Higher Education. Higher Learning Research Communications, 9(2), Online Version. http://dx.doi.org/10.18870/hlrc.v9i2.451

Chantal Larose, Kim Ward, Real-World Learning Analytics: Modeling Student Academic Practices and Performace. Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Proceedings, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science. Alexandria, Virginia: American Statistical Association. 2028-2032.

Joseph Manthey, Kim Ward, Ekaterina Lioutikova, Hong Zhou, Geogebra Tools For The Poincaré Disk, North American GeoGebra Journal, volume 5 Number 2 (2016). Available online at www.geogebrajournal.com/.