Fall 2012 Conference at Monterey
The 40th Annual season Conference was held in Monterey on Dec 7-12, 2012 at the Portola Inn and Spa.
Friday Keynote Speaker: Keith Devlin, Stanford University
THE SYMBOL BARRIER - Using Video Games to Overcome the Greatest Obstacle to Good Mathematics Learning
Most current mathematics education video games are essentially new delivery mechanisms for traditional instruction. In the coming decade we should see classroom pedagogy start to change in significant ways, as we learn how to take full advantage of what the medium offers.Based in part on Devlin’s book Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning, published in March 2011 by AK Peters.
Saturday Keynote Speaker: Van Emden Henson, Lawrence Livermore
Lab
A Child’s Garden of Graphs - How a pinch of
linear algebra, a smattering of graph theory, and a spoonful of computer
science is dominating your life
How do Netflix (or Amazon) recommend the movies (or products) you may like? How do Google, Alta Vista, or Bing assemble their lists of results? How does Mapquest figure out the best route from here to there? How does Expedia find an airline itinerary? How do Facebook or LinkedIn find people you may know? How do dating sites propose possible matches? How do banks catch potentially fraudulent activities? These, and many, many more are examples of graphs in action. While some of the graph algorithms are subtle and complex, a surprising number are remarkably simple. Many can best be understood and implemented with the tools of linear algebra, relying heavily on the matrix-vector product, matrix factorizations, and spectral analysis.
But the modern world is also the world of exponential growth of information, and many of the graphs behind these applications are rapidly growing to extraordinary size. How do we deal with graphs having tens or hundreds of billions of vertices? Will it be necessary to work with trillion- or even quadrillion-vertex graphs? How can we deal with information at enormous scales?
Where the mathematician and the applications scientist devise algorithms to organize, mine, or employ the information, it falls to the computer scientist to create the architectures, hardware, software environments, and the implementations making the computations possible. Just as the information is evolving, so are the approaches to computing and the architectures of the machines
In this talk, Van Emden Henson will describe some of the graph-based problems that have become ubiquitous in today’s world, and the mathematical tools used to address them, and then will describe some of the challenges and approaches to realizing these methods on the most modern computational engines.
Other Events
Friday Afternoon Workshop: Developmental Math, An Open Program
This workshop will provide an overview of the newly released set of developmental math resources from the NROC Project. With support from the Hewlett and Gates Foundations and contributing NROC Network members, the NROC development team engaged administrators, instructors and students in the design, development and pilot testing of these rich-media, adaptable, affordable resources.
The program contains modules in arithmetic, beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, geometry, statistics and trigonometry that are available to import into any learning management system for integrating into classroom, online, blended, or flipped instruction. The workshop will explore the resources and describe some of the unique pilot use cases. The second part of the workshop will be a discussion among participants about what professional development and institutional support are essential for the effective use of these types of flexible resources to engage students and enhance instructional options. Visit http://www.HippoCampus.org to view some of the developmental math media available for free use, or sign up for access to a demo site at http://www.NROCmath.org Presented by Ruth Rominger, Director of Research, The NROC Project.
Schedule of the Saturday Concurrent Sessions
Presentations provided can be found below.
| Room/Session | Session 1 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Session 2 10:30 am - 11:30 am |
Session 3 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Session 4 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonsai II |
Encouraging Critical Thinking Famous Mathematicians My Experience
and Communication in Dev. Math Mark Clark Palomar College Presentation Game Cards Handout |
Some Irrationals I Have Known John Martin Santa Rosa Junior College Presentation |
Famous Mathematicians I Have Interviewed Anthony Barcellos American River College Presentation |
My Experience with Community Math Robin Kelly-Dunton |
| Bonsai III |
New Pathways for Developmental Math: A Look Into Math Literacy Kathleen Almy and Heather Foes Rock Valley College Presentation |
Teaching Conceptual Understanding Through Manipulatives MaryAnne Anthony and Lynn Marecek Santa Anna College Presentation |
Dev. Math Program Systemic Progress at a 4-Year University John Wilkins and Silvia Kang C.S.U. Dominguez Hills Presentation |
The Mo Chart: A New Way to Find and Use the LCD Molly Martin City College of San Francisco |
| Portola |
FULLY INTEGRATE Study Skills in Your Classroom Using P.O.W.E.R Sherri Messersmith, Robert Feldman, Larry Perez College of DuPage, Univ. Mass., Saddleback CC Presentation |
"MyMathText": You Can Eliminate the Cost of Textbooks for Your Students Rob Knight Evergreen Valley College |
What’s New with State and National Projects that Impact Our
Classrooms? Ian Walton Mission College Presentation Survey |
Tenure-Track Hiring Tracey Jackson Santa Rosa Junior College |
| Redwood I |
Perverse Polynomials Zwi Reznik Fresno City College Presentation |
What's the Function of Functions in Precalculus? Jay Lehmann San Mateo College Presentation |
Series: Oresme to Euler to $1,000,000 Joe Conrad Solano Community College Presentation |
No Session |
| Redwood II |
Mastery Learning and Elements of Game Design in Your Course George Woodbury College of the Sequoias Presentation |
Students can Understand Concepts using Mathematical Software Gail Burrill and Tom Dick NTCM and Oregon State Univ. |
Web Resources for Constructing Applications Andrea Hendricks Georgia Perimeter College |
No Session |
| Ironwood |
The Impact of Technology on the Teaching of Stats Webster West Texas A & M |
Opening the Algebra Gate: a pre-Stats Path to Transfer-Level Math Hal Huntsman, Myra Snell, Tue Rust City College of S.F. and Los Medanos CC Presentation |
Panel: The Best Topics for Intro. Stats Courses Gene Sellers and Joe Phillips Sacramento City College |
Data-analysis-rich Interactive Statistics Learning Materials Kenneth Brown College of San Mateo Presentation |
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