Annual Meeting
Southwestern Section of the MAA
and ArizMATYC
April 2-3, 2004

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Program

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April 1 Wettaw Lecture Hall(#88)
6:30 pm -

7:20 pm

Formulas for Primes - Underwood Dudley (Department Honors Ceremony)
April 2 Adel Mathematics Building (#26) Lobby
8:00 am -

12:00 pm

Registration - Adel Mathematics Building Lobby
  AMB 205
8:00 am -

8:40 am

Continental Breakfast - sponsored by:

Addison-Wesley

Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning

Houghton-Mifflin

McGraw-Hill

Prentice-Hall

W.H. Freeman

8:00 am -

12:00 pm

Vendor Exhibits and MAA booksales
  LA 135 AMB 206 AMB 224
8:45 am Welcome- Roy St. Laurent,  Dept. Chair
9:00 am -

10:00 am

Campus Reports
10:05 am -

11:05 am

ConcepTests -  Deborah Hughes- Hallett   10:10-10:35 A numerical investigation of semilinear elliptic PDE on Family of Stadions, Jay Hineman

10:40-11:05 A generalization of Pappus's Theorem:  volumes of solids of revolution - and more - Frank Attanucci

 

  AMB 208 AMB 206 AMB 224
11:10 am -

12:10 pm

ArizMATYC Business Meeting The  CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004 - David Bressoud 11:10-11:35 Web-based activities to enhance mathematics learning - Hamide Dogan-Dunlap

11:40-12:05 Finding the Crossing Points of a Linear Matrix Inequality - Shafiu Jibrin

 

12:10 pm -

1:25 pm

Lunch on your own
  Wettaw Lecture Hall
1:25-1:30 pm Recognition of 25-year and 50-year members
1:30 pm -

2:20 pm

Angle Trisectors- Underwood Dudley, DePauw University
  AMB 205
1:30 pm -

4:30 pm

Vendor Exhibits and MAA booksales; refreshments
  AMB 164 AMB 206 AMB 224
2:30 pm -

3:30 pm

2:30-2:55 A Characterization of Prime Numbers - Emil Schwab

3:00-3:25 Best practices: using classroom technology - J. Hagood, J. McShane, M. Ratliff

Cross-stitching in the news - Josefina Alvarez 2:30-2:55 Bringing Math to Life:  Activities with CBL - Katie Louchart and Patricia Anderson

3:00-3:25 Successful Collaborative Teaching: Math Content and Math Methods - Olga Kosheleva and Ahmed Abdelfattah

3:30-3:55 Preservice teachers' values and their performance in mathematics - Melinda Ramos and Mo Pak

4:00-4:25 Changing students' perception in the study of mathematics, pedagogy and math methods - Olga Kosheleva, Hamide Dogan-Dunlap, Elena Izquierdo

4:30-4:55 Order-statistics, uniform distributions, and confidence intervals:  using order statistics in the classroom - Michael Ratliff

3:40 pm -

5:00 pm

Revisiting the AMATYC Crossroads standards - Alan Jacobs

 

3:40-4:40 MyMathLab - Patricia Anderson, Jason Crossett
 
  The Inn at NAU
5:00 pm -

6:15 pm

Social Hour - no host bar 
  Ashurst Hall - 2nd Floor of Ashurst Building (#11)
6:30 pm -

8:30 pm

Banquet

Steve Wilson, Game and Puzzle Master

April 3 AMB 205
8:00 am -

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast - sponsored by:

Addison-Wesley

Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning

Houghton-Mifflin

McGraw-Hill

Prentice-Hall

W.H. Freeman

 
8:00 am -

11:30 am

Registration, vendor exhibits, MAA book sales
  Cline Library Auditorium (Building #28)
9:00 am -

9:50 am

Alternating Sign Matrices - David Bressoud, Macalester College
  AMB 206 AMB 222 AMB 224
10:00 am -

11:00 am

  Using computational science in the mathematics classroom - Dan Russow, et.al, AWC 10:00-10:25 Using wavelets as a computational tool for homogenization - Laura Watkins

10:30 - 10:55  For what functions is f-1(x) = 1/f(x)? - Sharon MacKendrick

  AMB 206 AMB 208 AMB 224
11:10 am -

12:00 pm

Facilitating effective problem solving:  best practices drawn from the TIMMS video study - Jeffrey Shamatha Business Meeting MAA SW Section 11:05-11:30 College Algebra for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology majors - Sally Jacobs

11:35-12:00 Heat equation and gradient flows to a new active convex hull model for efficient content-based image retrieval - Nikolay Sirakov