SPRING 1996

The Spring Meeting of the Northeastern Section was held on June 7-8, 1996 at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. There were approximately 75 registrants.

Workshops

Fitchburg State College and the Lunenburg School System: A K-12/College Partnership by Richie Bisk, Fitchburg State College and Noreen Berry, Lunenburg School System.

Using Writing in Teaching Mathematics by Thomas Rishel, Cornell University.

Panel Discussions

Statistics in the Schools:

     Statistics Materials for the Schools by Anne Sevin, Framingham State College.

     The Advanced Placement Test in Statistics by Rosemary Roberts, Bowdoin College.

     Statistical Training of Future Teachers by Michelle Lamarre, Plymouth State College.

What Do Math Majors Really Do? chaired by Rick Cleary, St. Michael's College.

Special

The Seventeen Board.

Exhibit of Innovative K-12 Mathematics Materials introduced by Robert A. Rosenbaum, Wesleyan University.

Invited Papers

Redesigning Precalculus: A Modeling and Exploratory Approach by Marsha Davis, Eastern Connecticut State University.

Women and Mathematics at Cambridge by James J. Tattersall, Providence College.

How to Prove That There Is No Simple Answer by Herb Wilf, University of Pennsylvania.

Industrial-Academic Partnerships: Mutual Benefits by Martha J. Siegel, Towson State University.

Student Papers

Development of the Proof of the Forgione-Olds Theorem by Kevin Forgione and Wesley Olds, Lyndon State College.

So You Want To Do Arithmetic With Infinite Numbers by Rebecca Sparks, Rhode Island College.

The Taj Mahal: A Mathematical Masterpiece by Anuradha Karna and Nathan Gibson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

How to Harvest Haddock by Anuradha Karna and Nathan Gibson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Contributed Papers

Helping Mathematics Majors to Build their Communications and Teaching Skills by Irina Peterburgsky, Suffolk University.

A Realistic Approach to Limiting the Length of a Confidence Interval by Tony Julianelle, University of Vermont.

Graphs, Eigenvectors and Communications Networks by John Goulet, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Precalculus Mathematics: 1966 versus 1996 by Dominico Rosa, Teiko Post University.

The Uniquely Corrected Method to Compute High Power Functions by Po Kee Wong, Adam Wong and Anita Wong, Systems Research Company.