UMKC Department of Physics
last modified: August 31, 2007

Robert C. Riggs
Instructor of Physics
Office: 250A Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
Telephone: 816-235-2506
E-Mail: RiggsR@umkc.edu
Fax: (816) 235-5221

TEACHING AREAS

Algebra-based General Physics I and II
 
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
Curricular treatments in math and science that is effective with holistic learners; primarily, at-risk African American students living in generational poverty.

Study of constructivist learning in opposition to the sociocultural norms of teaching mathematics and science. 

 

Study of equity and justice in the urban classroom.

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