Events for 05/05/2016 from all calendars

Student/Postdoc Working Geometry Seminar

Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: BLOC 624

Speaker: C. Ikenmeyer

Title: The geometry of 2x2 matrix multiplication

Curriculum Development Seminar

Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Location: BLOC 624

Speaker: Douglas Meade, University of South Carolina

Description:

Speakers: Douglas B. Meade, Department of Mathematics, Univ of South Carolina
Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting

Title: Calculus at USC (and Texas A&M): Access, Attitudes, and Maplets

Abstract: One of the simplest and most provoking statements from the ongoing NSF-funded national survey of calculus is:
Our survey revealed that Calculus I, as taught in our colleges and universities, is extremely efficient at lowering student confidence, enjoyment of mathematics, and desire to continue in a field that requires further mathematics.
[Bressoud and Rasmussen, Notices of the AMS, Feburary 2015 (http://www.ams.org/notices/201502/rnoti-p144.pdf)]
While this presentation will include supporting data from USC and Texas A&M, the real focus will be more positive. After a quick overview of the Bressoud and Rasmussen's seven characteristics of successful calculus programs, we will see some more positive conclusions from the USC and Texas A&M data. In particular, students self-report that they find the Maplets for Calculus applets more beneficial than either Maple or MATLAB.