FALL 1995
The Fall Meeting of the Northeastern Section was held on November 17-18, 1995 at Salem State College. There were approximately 170 in attendance.
The Christie Lecture
Ingenious Mathematical Amateurs-M. C. Escher (artist) and Marjorie Rice (homemaker) by Doris Schattschneider, Moravian College, MAA First Vice-President.
NES/MAA Teaching Award Presentation
Interactive Geometry on the Internet-Where Will it Lead? by Thomas Banchoff, Brown University.
Workshop
The Internet for Mathematics Educators and Researchers by Joyce E. Anderson and Kendra Song, Salem State College.
Rhode Island Calculus Reform Project
Limits by Helen Salzberg, Rhode Island College.
Derivatives by Vivian Morgan, Rhode Island College.
Sequences and Series by Lewis Pakula, University of Rhode Island.
Differential Equations by Michael Latina, Community College of Rhode Island.
Invited Papers
Incorporating the NCTM Standards into the Classroom by Roberta Kieronski, University of New Hampshire at Manchester.
Towards a New Precalculus Course by Mako Haruta and Raymond McGivney, University of Hartford.
How to Cheat Your Way to the Knot Merit Badge by Scoutmaster Mel Slugbate by Colin Adams, Williams College.
Patterns in Eigenvalues by Persi Diaconis, Harvard University.
Culturing the Change: Attending to the Critical Dimensions of Mathematical Education Reform by Uri Treisman, Charles C. Dana Center for Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mathematics, Public Policy and Health Care Reform: A Personal Sampler by Arlene Ash, Boston University School of Medicine.
Contributed Papers
Mary Frances Winston Newson: An Early American Woman in Mathematics by Betsey Whitman, Framingham State College.
Women in Mathematics and Science: Past, Present and Future Borders by Ann Moskol, Rhode Island College.
From Pythagoras to Knot Theory to the Music of the Cantor Array by Barbara Hero, North Berwick, Maine.
de Beaume's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem by C. Edward Sandifer and Cynthia Gubitose, Western Connecticut State University.
Motivation Reform by John Goulet, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Statistics via the Internet by Gail Broome, Providence College.
The Teaching of Vector Field Theory by Domina Eberle Spencer, University of Connecticut and Uma Y. Shama, Bridgewater State College.
Trajectory Solid Angle's Impacts on Physics and High Technologies by Po Kee Wong, Systems Research Company, Somerville, MA.
Student Papers
Is a Five Game Playoff Series Long Enough? by Melissa Menard, St. Michael's College.
Harnessing the Wind: Rotating Cylinders as Sails by Mr. Kelly McDonald, Bates College.
A New Look at Old Numbers by Colleen Hennessy, Merrimack College.
The Relationship between Sidecut Radius and Turn Radius on a Snowboard by David Ferrone, Bates College.
The Art of Painting from Albrecht Durer's Perspective by Gail Ann Goddard, Merrimack College.
The Implications of Modifying the Hill-Keller Model of Running by Jason Ryan, Bates College.
Cardinality Equals Variety: An Application of Set Theory to Diatonical Systems by Ethan Wecker, Bates College.