Schedule

Annual Meeting
Southwestern Section of the MAA
and ArizMATYC
Friday, April 7, 2006

 

 

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Time

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

8:00-3:00

Registration in Conference Center

 

8:45

Refreshments Available and Introductions

 

9:00

Dr Lesley Ward, Dept of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College Title: The Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Clinic

9:50-10:00

Break

 

 

10:00

Richard Thompson: Discovering New Mathematics While You Teach

Derek Habermas and Erin Mcnicholas: Concept Tests

Feryal Alayont, Janet McShane, Joseph Erker, Mary Sibayan: Writing in mathematics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:45-10:50

Break

 

 

10:50

Bill McCallum, Deborah Hughes-Hallet: Algebraic Manipulation

Chris Mikel: Mentoring from a student’s perspective

April Strom: The Role of Covariational Reasoning in Learning and Understanding Exponential Functions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:35-11:40

Break

 

 

11:40

Gabriel Mendoza and Alfredo Rodriguez: Tablet PCs and implementation

Mary Sibayan and Dan Madden: Articulation Task Force

Adam Stinchcombe: The Lagrange Interpolation Polynomial

12:25-1:30

Lunch

 

 

1:30

Frank J. Attanucci: Analyzing the Surface Behavior of the Fluid in a Revolving Container

Kim Marsden: Pearson Education/ Addison Wesley: Taking Homework Integration to the Next Level with MathXL

Rebecca Hartzler: The MAC^3 program

 

 

 

 

2:15-2:20

Break

 

 

2:20

Janet McShane, Nándor Sieben and John Hagood: The WeBWorK Homework System:  College Mathematics through Linear

Algebra

 

Ksenija Simic and Matt

Ondrus: Experiences and

reflections of two math

post-docs involved in a math

education grant

3:05-3:15

Refreshments, partially supported by John Wiley and Sons Publishers

 

3:15

Shafiu Jibrin: Generating Uniform Points on the Boundary of Bounded Spectrahedron

Anne Dudley: Math & Jeopardy

(or I have an answer, do you know the question?)

Rebecca Hartzler: The MAC^3 program

4:00-4:05

 

 

 

4:05

Glenn Hurlbert, Fred Stevenson: Panel Discussion: Efforts to increase the number of high school mathematics teachers

Janet M. McShane,

Michael I. Ratliff: Pictures at a Regression

Rebecca Hartzler: The MAC^3 program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5:05

 

 

ArizMATYC Business Meeting

 

 

 

 

6:30

Banquet at Hotel: Room Wildcat 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following companies will have exhibition tables at the conference

 

 

Houghton-Mifflin Pearson                           Education/Addison Wesley

         Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning                John Wiley and Sons Publishers

                 Prentice Hall                                                Mathematical Association of America      

       

 

Saturday, April 8, 2006

 

Time

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

8:45

Refreshments Available and Introductions

 

9:00

Steve Dunbar, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Title of talk: The MAA American Mathematics Competitions:  Easy Problems, Hard Problems, History and Outcomes.

9:50-10:00

Break

 

 

10:00

1. Dorin Dumistriscu: High School Calculus Class Visitation Project

Nick Ercolani: Efforts to increase

 the number of students pursuing

degrees in mathematics

10:45-10:50

Break

 

 

10:50- 11:35

 

 

Business meeting, MAA