NES/MAA Minicourses and Short Courses
The Northeastern Section periodically offers minicourses and short courses on topics of interests to its membership. We have listed below past minicourses and short courses offered by the Section. The lists below were compiled by Frank Battles. More information about recent minicourses and short courses can be found on the Section Activities page.
April 27, 1991: Using History in Teaching Calculus by Frederick Rickey; held at Bentley College.
April 11, 1992: Challenging Students with Research Projects in Calculus by David Pengelley and Edward Gaughan, held at Western New England College.
April 24, 1993: Great Theorems from Mathematical Analysis: 1689-1881 by William Dunham, held at Boston College.
April 9, 1994: Teaching the Introductory Statistics Course by Robin Locke and Rick Cleary, held at The College of the Holy Cross.
April 29, 1995: An Introduction to Research in the Teaching and Learning of Under-graduate Mathematics - Examples in Calculus by Joan Ferrini-Mundy and Karen Graham, held at Simmons College.
April 20, 1996: Unifying Themes in Discrete Mathematics by Ralph Grimaldi, held at Babson College.
May 3, 1997: Using the TI-92 in Teaching Precalculus and Calculus by Mary Ann Connors, held at Providence College.
May 2, 1998: Epidemiology Modeling by Herb Hethcote, held at Regis College.
June 3, 2004: Creative Problem Solving by Mikhail Chkhenkeli, held at Roger Williams University.
(Held at UMaine Orono unless otherwise noted)
June 18-22, 1979: Applications of Mathematics in Medicine and Biology by Maynard Thompson.
June 23-27, 1980: Applications of Mathematics to Economics and the Managerial Sciences by William F. Lucas.
June 8-12, 1981: Uses of Computers in Teaching Mathematics by Stephen L. Snover, held at New England College.
June 15-19, 1981: Combinatorial Problem Solving by Alan C. Tucker.
June 14-18, 1982: Workshop for a Case Study Course in Applied Mathematics by Jeanne Agnew and Marvin Keener.
June 13-17, 1983: Computational Complexity by Herbert Wilf.
June 11-15, 1984: Optimization: Some Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects by Victor Klee.
June 10-14, 1985: The Total Role of the Mathematician: Researcher, Consultant, Teacher, Curriculum Developer, Damn Nuisance by Henry O. Pollak.
June 9-13, 1986: A New Unified Approach to Linear Algebra by Alan C. Tucker.
June 15-19, 1987: Applications of Discrete Mathematics by Fred S. Roberts.
June 13-17, 1988: A Mathematical Modeling Workshop by Frank R. Giordano and Maurice D. Weir.
June 19-23, 1989: Chaos and Dynamical Systems by Robert L. Devaney.
June 26-29, 1990: Outline for Teaching Differential Equations with Modeling and a Computer Algebra System by Frank R. Giordano and Maurice D. Weir.
June 15-19, 1992: Exploratory Data Analysis by Rickey Kolb.
June 13-18, 1993: Calculus Reform Workshop by Steve Hilbert, Stan Seltzer, John Miceli and Diane Schwartz.
June 20-24, 1994: History of the Calculus by V. Frederick Rickey.
June 18-23, 1995: The St.
Olaf College Calculus Reform Workshop by Arnold Ostebee and Paul Zorn.
June 16-21, 1996: Project CALC by David A. Smith and Lawrence C. Moore.
June 15-19, 1997: Dynamical Systems Across the Curriculum by Robert Devaney, held at Salve Regina University.
June 25-30, 2000: In Search of Newton – A Combined Calculus and Physics Curriculum by Kelly Black, held at the University of New Hampshire.
June 17-20, 2001: Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects by Kathleen Snook, Gideon Weinstein and Chris Arney, held at Western New England College.
June 23-27, 2002: Integrating the Web into Math Instruction by Cathy M. Frey, Gerard LeVarnway and Robert Poodiak, held at Plymouth State College.
June 16-18, 2003: Hands-on Statistics for Teachers by Rick Cleary and Robin Locke, held at St. Michael’s College.
Related Links
NES/MAA Archives and History
A Brief History of the Northeastern Section
NES/MAA Homepage
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