AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

2008 Spring Southeastern Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 28-30, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1037

• Saturday March 29, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective, I
  Room 127, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  James J. Madden, Louisiana State University madden@math.lsu.edu
  Kristin L. Umland, University of New Mexico umland@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    State mathematics standards and deep mathematical structure.
    James J. Madden*, Louisiana State University
    (1037-97-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Research Projects Involving Mathematicians and High School Teachers: An Example Involving Moduli Spaces of Triangles.
    Steven Rosenberg, Boston University
    Mike Spillane, Watertown High School
    Dan Wulf*, Watertown High School
    (1037-97-20)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Guiding high school mathematics teachers to a deeper understanding of the mathematics they teach. A report on a short course for pre-service mathematics teachers at the University of Illinois.
    Anthony L Peressini*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1037-97-130)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Elementary algebra from an advanced perspective.
    William McCallum*, University of Arizona
    (1037-97-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Mathematics of Task Design.
    Al Cuoco*, Center for Mathematics Education, EDC
    (1037-97-42)
• Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective, II
  Room 127, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  James J. Madden, Louisiana State University madden@math.lsu.edu
  Kristin L. Umland, University of New Mexico umland@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Misconceptions of Pre-service Teachers.
    G Donald Allen*, Texas A&M University
    (1037-97-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Collegiate mathematics for elementary school teaching.
    Mark Hoover Thames*, University of Michigan
    (1037-97-185)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Look Inside the Math in the Middle Institute Partnership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
    Michelle Reeb Homp*, Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1037-97-131)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Identifying and analyzing alternative sequences for learning mathematical concepts.
    Ted Stanford*, New Mexico State University
    (1037-97-337)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Why elementary and middle school teachers should study Calculus (and what that really means).
    Kristin L. Umland*, University of New Mexico
    (1037-97-311)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Role of Measurement in School Geometry.
    Scott J Baldridge*, Louisiana State University
    (1037-97-216)