Fall 2015 Conference at Monterey, Dec 11-12
The 43rd Annual Fall Conference was held in Monterey on Dec 11-12, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel and Spa.
Friday Ignite Session
Five-Minute Speedy Presentations with the "Ignite" motto being Enlighten us, but make it quick!
Saturday Keynote Speaker: Erica Flapan, Pomona College
How I Developed My Teaching Style
I spent much of my early career trying to find the algorithm for how to be a good teacher. I read articles about pedagogical techniques and talked to successful teachers about their methods. But nothing seemed to work quite as well for me as it did for the person describing it. Then I began to compare being a good teacher with being a good parent. I had never sought an algorithm for good parenting, so why should I expect there to be one for good teaching. In fact, there is no teaching technique that will work at all institutions, for all teachers, all classes, and all students. Rather, each person’s teaching methods should fit their personality and their mathematical preferences as well as the needs and goals of their courses and their students. In this talk I will describe some pedagogical techniques that have worked for me and others that have not.
Erica Flapan joined the faculty at Pomona College in 1986. Since 2006, she has been the Lingurn H. Burkhead Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. In addition to teaching at Pomona College, Flapan has been teaching regularly at the Summer Mathematics Program for Freshmen and Sophomore Women at Carleton College. In 2011, Flapan won the Mathematical Association of America’s Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. Then in 2012, she was selected as an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. She is currently a Polya Lecturer for the MAA. Erica Flapan has published extensively in topology and its applications to chemistry and molecular biology. In addition to her research papers, she has published an article in the College Mathematics Journal entitled “How to be a good teacher is an undecidable problem", as well as three books. Her first book, entitled "When Topology Meets Chemistry" was published jointly by the Mathematical Association of America and Cambridge University Press. Her second book entitled "`Applications of Knot Theory," is a collection of articles that Flapan co-edited with Professor Dorothy Buck of Imperial College London. Most recently, Flapan co-authored a textbook entitled "Number Theory: A Lively Introduction with Proofs, Applications, and Stories" with James Pommersheim and Tim Marks, published by John Wiley and Sons. She is currently at work on a new book intended for first-year college students that will be entitled "Knots, Molecules, and the Universe: An Introduction to Topology."
Other Events
Preconference Day on Math Accessibility
The High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges will be giving a workshop on math accessibility from 9:45 am to 4:30 pm on Friday, December 11. They have funding to provide a stipend for attendees.
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 |
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Regency I General Interest |
Students and Shortages Cliff Nelson College of Marin Presentation |
Responding to Disruptive Student Behavior: Experiences Common to Math Classes Lalu Simcik Cabrillo College |
Teaching Math or Stat Online? Building a Community for Faculty Barbara Illowsky DeAnza College Presentation |
Get All Your ACCCESS Pass! Leslie Banta Mendocino College |
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Regency II Issues and Panel |
The MAA-CSPCC Study: Two Year College’s Finding Helen Burn Highline College |
Mathematics in Non-Mathematics Classes Larry Green Lake Tahoe Community College Presentation |
Flipping the Gradebook: Concept Based Grading Phil Smith American River College Presentation |
The Importance of Discovery and Reflection in Developmental Mathematics George Woodbury College of the Sequoias Presentation |
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Regency III Developmental Ed |
Making Sense of Solving Linear and Quadratic Equations with Mapping Diagrams Martin Flashman Humboldt State University |
Innovation + Inspiration = Math Academy = Student Success Ken Rand and Johnny Perez Hartnell College |
Learning to Learn in Developmental Mathematics Courses Wade Ellis West Valley College Presentation QRPS |
Using Math Symmetry Operations to Solve a Problem in Elementary Physicsitle Marc Frodyma and Sandy Rosas San Jose City College Presentation |
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Regency IV Precalculus and Above |
The Chaos of the Real Numbers Tim Melvin Santa Rosa Junior College Presentation |
Investigating the Effects of Instructional Practices on Student Outcomes in Developmental Mathematics Kevin McCandless San Jose City College Presentation |
Teaching Differential Equations the SIMIODE Way John Thoo Yuba College |
Creating an iPad Classroom for Redesign and Innovation Lynn Marecek Santa Ana College Presentation |
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Regency V Technology |
Yes, You Can Make the Whole Math Class Tweet Linda Hoang Cosumnes River College |
Reclaiming Comp Sci with Stroustrup’s Programming Principles and Practices Geoff Hagopian College of the Desert Presentation |
Best Practices in Using Social Media in the Mathematics Classroom Howard Blumenfield Las Positas College |
No Session |
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Regency VI Statistics |
What’s the Big Deal With Big Data? The Rising Importance of Training New Data Scientists Robin Donatello California State University Chico Presentation |
Using Student’s Stats to Verify Meanings of a Confidence Coeff. and Level of Significance Gene Sellers Sacramento City College |
Title: Did You Sample the Relevant Population? Subtitle: Why Are Handsome Men Such Jerks?
Charles Barnett Las Positas College Presentation |
No Session |
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