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Annual MAA Florida Section Meeting:
Plenary Speakers:
Student Oriented Special Session:
Special Articulation Session:
Preliminary Program| Friday, 3 March 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Meeting 10:30am-12:00 Community College Chairs Meeting Mike Mears, (Manatee CC) presiding |
Workshop 9:30am-11:30am Introductory Maple Workshop Doug Jones, Moana Karsteter, Jerry McBee (Tallahassee Community College) |
Workshop 9:30am-11:30am Environmental Mathematics — Visual, Qualitative, and Computational Ben Fusaro (Florida State University) |
Distance Learning with Demonstration 10:30am-11:30am The Global Classroom Project Marcelle Bessman (Jacksonville U.) Douglas Quinney (Keele University) |
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Regional Meeting Reports 12:15-1:00pm BSN 1101 June White (St. Petersburg JC) |
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Welcome Session 1:15-1:30pm BSN 1100 Walter Walker, Eckerd College, MAA-FL President |
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Plenary Address 1:30pm-2:30pm BSN 1100 Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space: Investment Opportunities for the Next Millennium Mel Slugbate, Real Estate Agent, Slugbate and Mossbutter Real Estate, Williamstown, MA (Sponsored by his brother-in-law, Colin Adams, Williams College) |
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Student Program Ben Fusaro, presiding 2:40-5:10 BSN 1400 |
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2:40pm— 3:00pm |
Quandles and State-Sums Daniel Jelsovsky (University of South Florida) |
Beauty of Mathematical Patterns Shiv Aggarwal (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) |
Success of Students in Entry Level Mathematics
with Aid of Integrated Review Classes Bahram Foroughi (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) |
Mathematics at Indian Tribal Colleges Don Hill (Florida A & M University) |
Difficulties in Assessing Students Understanding of
Mathematics in an Online Course Alicia Giovinazzo (Nova University) |
ALEKS (Assessment in Learning and Knowledge Spaces) Hands-On
Workshop Presented by McGraw-Hill |
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3:10pm— 3:30pm |
Folding and Fanning Complete even Unimodular Lattices Katherine Roegner (Eckerd College) |
An Introduction to the Various Forms of the Pythagorean Theorem from
Ancient Times Shamita Dutta Gupta (Florida International University) |
The Mathematics Major in the U.S., 1945-1995 Chuck Lindsey (Florida Gulf Coast University) |
Modeling Data Sets in College Algebra Michael Nancarrow & Sanjay Rai (Jacksonville University) |
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3:40pm— 4:00pm |
New Bounds for Large Regular Planar Graphs Erich Friedman (Stetson University) |
Sowing Games Deborah Nelson (University of South Florida) |
A Mathematics Course for Prospective Teachers of Grades K-6:
Emphasizing Motivated Reasoning and Computer Use Steven Blumsack, Janice Flake, Erich Nold (Florida State University) |
The Sunshine State Scholars Program William Caldwell (University of North Florida) |
A Calculus Course for Business Students Raymond Young (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) |
3:35pm—4:35pm FTYCMA Business Meeting Joan Golliday presiding |
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4:10pm— 4:30pm |
On a Student Research Project in Epidemiology Sanjay Rai (Jacksonville University) |
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Articulation Session 4:40-5:30 BSN 1100 Panelists: Steven Blumsack (FSU), James Brewer (FAU), Fred Zerla (USF), Mike Mears (MCC) |
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| CANCELLED — Project NExT Dinner — CANCELLED | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Student Program Banquet and Speaker 6:00 pm Faculty Dining Room, Fourth Floor Marshall Center Monica Hurdal Florida State University & Queensland Technological University Mapping the Human Brain with Mathematics |
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Plenary Address 9:00am — 10:00am BSN 1100 What is Constructive Mathematics? Fred Richman (Florida Atlantic University) |
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10:10am— 10:30am |
Properties of Tournaments Among Well Matched Players James Weaver (University of West Florida) |
A Quintic Approach to Teaching Limits Deepankar Pal & Jie Gao (Valencia Community College) |
Jordan Forms of Induced Linear Transformations between
Wedge Products of Vector Spaces John Hunter (University of Central Florida) |
Student Construction of Decision Trees in Second Semester Calculus Pam Crawford (Jacksonville University) |
The Zen of Mathematics Homework Gregory McColm (University of South Florida) |
CommunityCollege Open Forum Mike Mears and/or Joan Golliday, presiding |
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10:40am— 11:00am |
The Analytic Continuation of the Fibonacci Numbers Sam Sakmar (University of South Florida) |
Some Problems Related to Maxima and Minima M.S. Jagadish (Barry University) |
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11:10am— 11:30am |
Magic Squares — An Artful Application Cynthia McGinnis (Okaloosa — Walton Community College) |
Is Calculus Rigorous? Lubomir Markov (Barry University) |
Periodic Solutions of a Class of Ordinary Differential Equations Harley Flanders (Jacksonville University & University of North Florida) |
So You Want to Go Online! Issues and Strategies Marcelle Bessman (Jacksonville University) |
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11:40am— 12:00 |
A (as much as possible) Non-technical Look at Wiles’
Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem Scott Hochwald (University of North Florida) |
Laboratories in Elementary Statistics Bob Hollister (Jacksonville University) |
Why will 2003 Divide the Numerator of Li Zhou (Polk Community College) |
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Last modified: 1 March 2000
