Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education

Thursday February 24
5:00 - 7:00	Registration
7:00 - 7:20	Welcome
7:30 - 8:30	Plenary talk: Pat Thompson *What does it mean to understand what it means to understand a mathematical idea deeply?*
Friday, February 25
7:30 - 5:00	Registration
8:30 - 9:00	Session #1 (S-CT)
9:10 - 9:40	Session #2 (S-CT)
9:50 - 10:30	Session #3 (L-CT)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary talk: Anthony Kelly
12:00 - 1:30	LUNCH
1:30 - 2:10	Session #4 (L-CT)
2:20 - 3:00	Session #5 (L-CT)
3:10 - 3:40	Session #6 (PR)
3:40 - 4:10	Coffee break
4:10 - 4:40	Session #7 (S-CT)
4:50 - 5:50	Plenary talk: Joan Ferrini-Mundy
7:00 - ??	DINNER & Local event - to be announced
Saturday, February 26
7:30 - 5:00	Registration
8:30 - 9:00	Session #8 (S-CT)
9:10 - 9:40	Session #9 (PR)
9:50 - 10:20	Session #10 (S-CT)
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30	Session #11 (L-CT)
11:40 - 12:20	Session #12 (L-CT)
12:20 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 3:00	Plenary talk: David Hestenes
3:10 - 3:40	Session #13 (S-CT)
3:40 - 4:10	Coffee break
4:10 - 4:40	Session #14 (PR)
4:50 - 5:30	Session #15 (L-CT)
6:15 - 8:00	DINNER

Sunday, February 27

8:30 - 9:10	Session #16 (L-CT)
9:20 - 9:50	Session #17 (S-CT)
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00	Session #18 (PR)
11:10 - 11:40	Session #19 (S-CT)
11:40 -	CLOSING

Program details:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Sessions #1 - #7

Session

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D

(8:30 - 9:00)

Irene Bloom

Fostering mathematical problem solving in preservice high school math teachers

Boris Koichu

Heuristic Literacy and Mathematical Reasoning: The Nature of Relationship

Keith Weber

Pre-service Teachers' Experiences in Real Analysis

(9:10 - 9:40)

Claudia Santos

Math Education and Cosntructions: Geometry Lessons and African History

Tanya Berezovski

Rina Zazkis

An Inquiry into Students’ Understanding of Logarithms

Doug Aichele

Geometric Structures for Elementary Teachers (GeoSET)

(9:50 - 10:3)

Karen Allen

Oh Nam Kwon

Jung Sook Park

An analysis of students’ mathematical activity in Korea and the US: Reinventing straight line solutions to differential equations

Jennifer Smith

The Development of a Community Concept of Proof

(1:30 - 2:10)

Margret Hjalmarson

Statistical Sampling from a Digital Image

Jeffrey Rabin

Guershon Harel

Effects of DNR-based Instruction on the Knowledge Base of

Algebra Teachers

(2:20 - 3:00)

Guershon Harel

Teachers' Reconceptualization of Proof Schemes

David Kung

Teaching Assistants' Knowledge of Student Thinking: The Case of Emerging Scholars Calculus Workshops

(3:10 - 3:40)

Rossa Bernd

Joseph F. Wagner, SJ

Chris Rasmussen

Karen Allen

Developing and implementing innovative undergraduate mathematics curricula: Improving collaboration between mathematicians and mathematics educators

Cynthia Stenger

Draga Vidakovic

Kirk Weller

Students' conceptions of infinite iteration: A follow-up study

Soheila Gholamazad

Communicational approach to proof: Proof as discourse

Cynthia Kaus

Sarah Hansen

Increasing Student Success in Calculus by Improving Mathematics Placement

(4:10 - 4:40)

Stephanie Nichols

Jennifer Christian Smith

The Instructor's Role in the Development of a Classroom Community in an Undergraduate Number Theory Course: A Preliminary Report

Eric Kuennen

Correctly Identifying Students Needing Collegiate Mathematics Remediation

- Current Practices and Better Ideas

CANCELED

Jerry Waxman

Dealing with Quantiphobia: lessons from Sesame Street and Blue's Clues

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Sessions #8 - #15, Saturday

Session

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D

Salon E

(8:30 - 9:00)

Susan S. Gray

Barbara J. Loud

Carole Sokolowski

An Analysis of Calculus Students' Errors When Using and Interpreting Variables in Expressions and Equations

Kenneth Bogart

Jane Korey

Comparing guided discovery to traditional teaching

Zahra Gooya

Bijan Z Zangeneh

The Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum in Iran

(9:10 - 9:40)

Bernie Baker

Cynthia Stenger

An Alternate Representation of Function

Kristina Burch

Students’ validation of arguments written by their peers

Katrina Piatek-Jimenez

Do Undergraduate Female Mathematics Students View Themselves as Future Mathematicians?

Shabnam Kavousian

Students' Development of Combinatorial Reasoning

#10

(9:50 - 10:20)

Sera Yoo

How Do I Know if They’re Learning?” An Investigation of a Mathematician’s Struggle to Change Her Teaching

Curtis Bennett

Jacqueline M. Dewar

How does mathematics contribute to a liberal education?

Lynn Hart

Mathematics beliefs and perspectives of first-year, alternative preparation, elementary teachers working in urban classrooms

#11

(10:50 - 11:30)

Mike Oehrtman

Three Teaching Experiments on a Thematic Approach to Calculus

Carol E. Seaman

Jennifer Szydlik

The Teacher's Role in Negotiating the Culture of a Non-Traditional Mathematics Classroom

#12

11:40 - 12:20)

Lara Alcock

Keith Weber

Proving: The use of instantiations

Boris Koichu

Guershon Harel

Thinking-aloud Dilemma in Semi-Structured Interviews

#13

(3:10 - 3:40)

Gary Hagerty

General issues in the psychology of mathematics education

Natasa Sirotic

Rina Zazkis

On irrational numbers and their geometric representation

Kyeong Hah Roh

Students’ Misconceptions about Limit of Sequences

#14

(4:10 - 4:40)

Stephen Hegedus

Gary E. Davis

How prepared do students think they are for Calculus?

Colleen Megowan

A case of distributed cognition (or, many heads make light work…) - Modeling the cognitive processes of a cooperative group

Scott Adamson

Student Sense-making about Slope through Modeling and Discourse in a Supportive Classroom Environment

Brian W. Frank

Luanna Ortiz

Identifying students' conceptual difficulties with projectile motion in the introductory physics laboratory

Vicki Sealey

Bridging the Gap between

Mathematics and Science

#15

(4:50 - 5:30)

Stephen Blair

The Fifth van Hiele Level of Geometric Thinking

Sean Larsen

Michelle Zandieh

Proving things are mathematically “the same” and defining mathematical “sameness” or … how chickens and eggs may evolve reflexively