Northern Region

We enjoyed a wonderful continental breakfast as we welcomed about 40 members.
Bruce Wahl gave a brief welcome and we began the day with lots of lively sessions (detailed below).
Then we enjoyed a wonderful lunch that was arranged by Bruce and provided by Panera.
After lunch we had an informative panel presentation led off by Donna Jovanovich from systems office and Jane Serbousek from NOVA. The other members of the panel were currently serving on the DMRT curriculum team. Lots of discussion was generated and this went late into the afternoon and a lot of questions and concerns were voiced and commented.
We ended the day with some choosing to stay and learn more about the redesign and others broke out into their specific core subject areas to have round table discussions with colleagues.

Tom Tredon, OFCC
Mth 163 & 271 Redesign

AA 462
John Hexter, PVCC
Adventures in Factoring Quadratics: "In this presentation we look at some alternative methods of factoring trinomials.  We will discuss the relevance of these methods to the classroom and their connection to other math subjects such as calculus and matrices."

TJ Johnson, BRCC
Calculus with Infinitesimals Calculus Without Limits
There's a way to teach calculus without using limits. Is it useful to us in the classroom? Learn how the Hyperreal number system justifies the intuitions of the historical developers of calculus, how it makes difficult proofs easy, and how it makes it okay to say things like "infinitely close".

John Updike, Lfcc
Combinatorial Aspects of Some Mechanical Puzzles: Some non-Rubik's mechanical puzzles are spotlighted when the age-old question "How many?" is asked. Learn different ways to think about counting problems that can benefit any teacher or student of combinatorics.

Session II, DMRT update

Theresa Thomas
Jane Serbousek
Martin Bredeck
Jon Hexter
Donna Jovanovich

After lunch. Core Subject Breakouts:
Linear/Abstract Algebra: Lynne Ryan
Liberal Arts Math: Bruce Wahl
Developmental Math: Mike Garrand
PreCalculus: Tom Tredon
Statistics: TBA
Calculus: TJ Johnson

All day:
*Speed Sessions with Don Goral: Find out if you have what it takes to become a Cyborg Professor! Ask Don Goral to demonstrate Mathematica, Scientific Notebook, TI Nspire,  Geogebra,  and Microsoft One-Note on a tablet PC. Try out these tools yourself to see what could help you in the classroom or online.

 

Respectfully Submitted,
Theresa Thomas
BRCC