The most recent issue of MAA Focus magazine features several dice puzzles by Dr. Phillip Poplin, Associate Professor of Mathematics. They appear on page 31.
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Dr. William Abrams, Professor of Mathematics, presented Discovering Concepts in Calculus II at Mathfest in Portland, OR this August.
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David Shoenthal, Associate Professor of Mathematics, was published in PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies. His article, “Fourier Series as a Unifying Topic in Calculus II,” appears in Volume 24, Issue 4 (2014).
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Don Blaheta, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was published in the Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2014, pp. 301–306. He presented his paper “Reinventing homework as cooperative, formative assessment” at the SIGCSE conference in Atlanta, GA.
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Maria Timmerman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, published an article “Making Connections: Elementary Teachers’ Construction of Division Word Problems and Representations” in School Science and Mathematics, Vol. 114, Issue 3 (March 2014), 114-124.
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Dr. Virginia Lewis, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, recently received notification that she has been awarded a state MSP grant entitled PREP: Proportional Reasoning Enrichment Project. During the summer of 2014, teachers will participate in two weeks of professional development workshops focused on developing their own understanding of rational number concepts and proportional reasoning. For […]
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Congratulations to Dr. Maria Timmerman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, who will be awarded the 2014 Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics William C. Lowry Outstanding Mathematics Educator of the Year Award for the University Level. The award will be presented in March during the VCTM Annual Conference. Dr. Timmerman was recognized as being a […]
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Dr. Leah Shilling-Traina, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, published an article in the Virginia Mathematics Teacher. The article, “Making the ‘impossible’ possible in the classroom: Cultivating persistence in problem-solving,” appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of the publication.
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Dr. Leah Shilling-Traina, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, was awarded (along with six other math educators across the country) a CSMC (Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum) Mini-Grant to fund meetings of a Research Group (RG). The focus of this RG is a comparison of teacher selection and use of written curriculum materials in CCSSM […]
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David Shoenthal presented “Arms Race Examples in Intro ODEs” at the Maryland-DC-Virginia MAA Sectional Meeting at VMI on October 27, 2012.
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