NORTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE
MAA (NES/MAA)
SPRING 1999 MEETING
June 11-12, 1999
Colby College
This page contains a meeting program for the NES/MAA Spring 1999
Meeting at Colby College, along with links to other information about the
meeting. At the beginning of the program, there is a link to abstracts
for the talks that will be given at the meeting. As additional
information about the meeting is received, it will be put up on this site.
Registration form. . A form
with information is available but you are not able to register on-line.
Directions
to Colby College
Campus Map
Registration will be in Mary
Low Commons in the West Central portion of the campus, and parking
is available in the lot south of that building. Mary Low Commons
is in the lower left quadrant of the main campus map.
Lodging
Meeting Theme: Mathematics Education
Click here to go to
all of the abstracts; otherwise, click on a speaker's name to go to that
specific abstract.
Friday, June 11, 1999
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2:00 - 6:00 p.m. Registration (in Mary
Low Commons)
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2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Executive Committee
Meeting
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3:00 - 3:50 p.m. George
Markowsky, University of Maine
The Not-So Golden Ratio
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3:00 - 3:50 p.m. Student
Papers
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4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Student
Poster Session on the MCM Problems
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4:00 - 4:50 p.m. Kathy
Bavelas, Manchester Community Technical College (CT)
How I (Almost) Became a Multimillionaire or Why Didn’t I Really
Learn Those Elementary Functions
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5:00 - 5:50 p.m. Murray
Eisenberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Active Learning---High-Tech and Low, in-class and out
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6:00 - 6:40 p.m. Reception
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6:45 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner
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8:00 - 8:10 p.m. Opening Remarks
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8:10 - 9:00 p.m. Battles Lecture:
Robert
L. Devaney, Boston University
Chaos, Fractals, and the Internet
Saturday, June 12, 1999
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8:00 - Noon
Registration (in Mary Low
Commons)
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8:00 - 8:50 a.m. Presentations by Future
Colleagues
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8:00 - 12:00 p.m. Student Posters
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9:00 - 9:50 p.m. Jerry
Johnson, University of Nevada, Reno
Mathematics Across the Curriculum
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10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
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10:30 - 11:20 a.m. Ed
Dubinsky, Georgia State University
Meaning and Formalism in Mathematics
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11:30 - 12:00 p.m. Business Meeting
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12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Luncheon
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1:00 - 1:50 p.m. Robert
Case and Carla Oblas, Northeastern University
Interactive Learning
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2:00 - 2:50 p.m. Sandy
Rhoades, Keene State College
Waking Them Up: Three Tried and True Ways to Spice Up a Lecture
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3:00 - 3:50 p.m. Contributed
Papers
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Local Arrangements Coordinator:
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