Jacqueline Hall, associate professor of mathematics, gave the presentation ” ‘I CAN PROVE IT’–Using Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem to Bolster Confidence for the Math-Anxious Liberal Arts Mathematics Students” on January 6 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, MA. Her talk discussed a technique used in her Math 131 course where she has each […]
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Associate Professor of Mathematics David Shoenthal had a puzzle published by the MAA magazine FOCUS. “A Four Color Problem,” a modified Sudoku puzzle, appears on page 19 of the December 2011/January 2012 issue and is available online.
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Associate Professor of Mathematics M. Leigh Lunsford presented “Bayesian Inference Using Data from a Real Galton Board” with Dr. Marcus Pendergrass (associate professor of mathematics at Hampden-Sydney College). This was a peer-reviewed contributed poster at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, May 19-21, 2011.
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Robert Marmorstein, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was published in a refereed conference proceedings over the summer. His contribution, “Open Source Contribution As An Effective Software Engineering Class Project,” was published in the Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Comptuer Science, June 27-29 2011, pp. 268–272.
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Lunsford, M. L. and Poplin, P., “From Research to Practice: Basic Mathematics Skills and Success in Introductory Statistics,” Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 19, Number 1 (2011), www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v19n1/lunsford.pdf
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Leigh Lunsford and Alix Fink co-authored “Water Taste Test Data,” in the Datasets and Stories section in the peer-reviewed online Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 1 (2010). More information is available at the folowing link: www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n1/lunsford.pdf
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