There are still openings available in two of this year's PREP workshops:
* Mathematical Methods and Modeling for Secondary Mathematics Teacher
Education, on June 23-28, 2002, at Lewis and Clark College in Portland,
Oregon; and
* Assessment at the Department Level #2, to be held July 29-31, 2002, in
Burlington, Vermont, right before MathFest.
Recall that room and board are free, courtesy of an NSF grant. For more
details and applications, check out http://www.maa.org/pfdev/prep/prep.html.
MathFest
Remember that MathFest is coming up in Burlington, Vermont, on August 1-3.
The deadlines for preregistration are listed at the end of this newsletter.
For details about invited talks, contributed papers, minicourses and other
special events, click on the banner page at MAA Online, http://www.maa.org,
or look it up in the April issue of Focus.
SIGMAAs
Do you have a special interest in a particular subfield of mathematics or
math education? Then a SIGMAA (Special Interest Group of the MAA) might be
what you are looking for. There are currently four SIGs:
* RUME- Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
* BIG- Business, Industry, and Government
* Stats-Ed- Statistics Education
* HOM- History of Mathematics
For more information, go to http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/sigmaa.html.
Deadlines to Remember
Subject: Do you have a mathematics faculty member interested in making a
major commitment to prepare to take leadership role in K-12 mathematics
education?
We are in the process of seeking support for a Center for Learning and
Teaching that would prepare mid career mathematics faculty to take
leadership roles in the mathematics education of preservice and in-service
K-12 teachers.
Subject: Fwd: Modeling/Visualization Opportunity for Undergraduate Faculty &
K-12 Teachers
The SC2002 Education Program is inviting undergraduate faculty and K-12
teachers to spend four days to participate in hands-on workshops at the
SC2002 Conference and to network with leading scientists, engineers,
technologists and other educators. Participants will learn about the latest
research, education and development in high performance computing and
communications technologies. The SC2002 Education Program is supported by
the National Computational Science Institute (www.computationalscience.net
Announcing: SAUM Workshop on Assessment Assessment at the Department Level
#2
Presented by William Haver and Bernard Madison
Two Face-to-Face Sessions: July 29-31, 2002 Burlington,Vermont (Prior to
MathFest 2002) And January 19-20, 2003 Baltimore, Maryland (Following 2003
Joint Mathematics Meetings) Plus Electronic Consultation Throughout
This workshop series is a continuing education program to help teams of two
to three faculty members lead their departments in the conceptualization,
formulation, and implementation of assessment of some component of their
academic programs.
For more information on SAUM (Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate
Mathematics), please visit the SAUM web page at
http://www.maa.org/saum/index.html
Gretchen Brown
* June 17, 2002 - early bird MathFest registration deadline
* July 15, 2002 - regular MathFest registration deadline
* August 1-3, 2002, MathFest, Burlington, Vermont
You may also register at MathFest itself
* January 15-18, 2003, Joint Meetings, Baltimore
For Special Sessions, Contributed Paper Session Organizers, and MAA Session
Organizers, contact Jim Tattersall at tat@providence.edu
April 25, 2002
To: Mathematics Faculty/Departments
From: Bill Haver
Reuben Farley
Under the proposed Center, college/university mathematics faculty would be
selected and receive support to spend a summer at the Center and then the
following year as a full-time Fellow at one of 10 participating colleges and
universities: University of California, Berkeley; Elizabeth City State
University; Norfolk State University; Normandale Community College; J.
Sargeant Reynolds Community College; University of Minnesota; University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Virginia; Virginia Commonwealth
University; and Virginia Tech. Applications would be accepted for any of the
10 listed host institutions. The goal is to prepare these college math
faculty members to better teach mathematics courses for future and current
K-12 teachers; to develop better and more appropriate mathematics courses
and programs for K-12 teachers; and to take leadership roles at the local,
state, and national levels in developing policy, in supporting and
encouraging standards-based programs in schools, in participating in
programs to assess the effectiveness of in-service and pre-service programs,
and in helping develop statewide and regional partnerships among mathematics
departments, departments of education, schools, and the public.
Our preliminary proposal received very positive reviews by the National
Science Foundation, and we were strongly encouraged to submit a full
proposal by May 3, 2002. However, we were also strongly encouraged to
provide evidence that faculty members (and their departments!) would be
interested in making the major commitment called for under the proposal. If
you are interested in this possibility, more information concerning our
plans is attached.
If you believe that there is a strong possibility that someone from your
department would be interested in participating:
1) We would appreciate a statement from you indicating the current
level of interest that we could include in the proposal; obviously, the
stronger the indication and the more details (name of individual, academic
year, commitment of your department, etc.) the better.
2) In exchange for being a part of the proposal in this manner, we will
notify you immediately should the Center be funded so that your faculty
member can have ample time to apply to be accepted to participate.
Thanks for your interest, and we hope to hear from you!
Bill Haver
804-828-1301 x 123
804-272-2654 (home)
Program Coordinator
Department of Programs and Services
Mathematical Association of America
1529 Eighteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-319-8496 phone
202-483-5450 fax