NES/MAA Section Activities
In addition to our regular section meetings, the Section sponsors other
activities each year, including regional dinner meetings in the Spring
and a short course in June. We will post information on upcoming activities
as it becomes available.
Upcoming Section Activities
:
Recent Section
Activities
Regional Dinner Meetings
The Northeastern Section Regional Dinner Meeting series has proven to be
both popular and stimulating. Through these meetings, the NES/MAA offers
you the opportunity to spend an interesting and enjoyable evening with
others involved in mathematics and mathematics education. There is always
a variety in style, sites and topics offered in each year's selections.
Join your colleagues at one or more of these Regional Dinner Meetings for
an informal discussion, a meal, and an informative invited talk.
If you would like to host a dinner meeting in Spring 2005, please contact
Lucy Kimball (Bentley College), the Regional Dinner Meeting Coordinator,
at lkimball@bentley.edu
or (781) 891-2467.
Summer Short Courses and Minicourses
Each summer the Northeastern Section sponsors a short course or a minicourse, generally
sometime in June. We have listed the most recent ones below. A full
listing of past NES minicourses and short courses can be found on our
Minicourses and Short Courses
page.
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SUMMER MINICOURSE
2004: The Northeastern Section hosted a minicourse on
"Creative Problem Solving" on Thursday, June 3, 2004, at Roger
Williams University. The presenter was
Mikhail Chkhenkeli, Western New England College.
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SUMMER 2003: Summer Short Course: Hands-on Statistics
for Teachers.
June 16, 17, and 18, 2003 at St. Michael’s College, Colchester, Vermont.
Picture of the participants
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SUMMER 2002: Integrating the Web Into Mathematics Instruction;
June 23-27, 2002; Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
The presenters were Cathy M. Frey, Associate Professor, Primary Presenter,
Gerard LaVarnway, Professor, and Robert Poodiack, Assistant Professor,
all from the Department of Mathematics at Norwich University.
For more information about what was done during the short course, you can
look at the original meeting announcement http://www2.norwich.edu/frey/shortcourse/
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SUMMER 2001: INTERDISCIPLINARY LIVELY APPLICATION PROJECTS; June
17 - 20, 200, Western New England College, Springfield MA. The presenters
were Kathleen Snook, United States Military Academy, Gideon Weinstein,
United States Military Academy, and Chris Arney, College of Saint Rose.
Interdisciplinary applications can be used to weld mathematics with the
concepts of other disciplines to provide student growth in modeling and
problem solving. This workshop discussed projects that can be used
in mathematics courses such as precalculus, calculus, differential equations,
linear algebra, discrete mathematics, and probability and statistics, as
well as address the process of designing and building projects. The
applications are related to subjects in chemistry, biology, physics, engineering,
economics, technology, and social sciences. More information is contained
in the original meeting announcement.
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SUMMER 2000: "In Search of Newton -- A
Combined Calculus and Physics Curriculum", JUNE 25-30, 2000
The mathematics and physics departments at the University of New Hampshire
hosted a short course on their combined calculus and physics curriculum
developed as part of an NSF funded program, NSF-DUE-9752485. The short
course focused on the following aspects of the program now in place:
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updates and changes to the Physics curriculum,
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updates and changes to the Calculus curriculum,
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class format including a detailed examination of the studio format pioneered
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
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class materials.
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