Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education

Preliminary Conference Schedule

 

Embassy Suites Hotel, Piscataway, New Jersey

Thursday, February 23 – Sunday, February 26, 2006

 

 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23

 

5:00 – 7:00 pm     Registration

 

7:00 – 7:20 pm      Welcome

 

7:30 – 8:30 pm     Plenary Talk

 

Tommy Dreyfus

 

Bifurcations – Mathematical and Cognitive – via the Epistemic Actions Model for Abstraction in Context

 

 

8:30 – 11:00 pm     Reception

 

 

 


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

 

7:30 am – 5:00 pm     Registration

 

 

8:30 – 9:00 am     Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D

 

Aaron Weinberg

 

Reconceptualizing Mathematical Objects as Mediating Discursive Metaphors

 


John E. Donovan II


The Contrast of Hassan’s and Rich’s Understandings of First Order Differential Equations: ‘Knowing What To Do and Why’ and ‘Rules Without Reasons’

 


Shandy Hauk
April Brown Judd

Jennifer Kreps
Rhoda Deon

No Teacher Left Behind


Pete Johnson

Patterns of Motivation and Beliefs among Before-Precalculus College Mathematics Learners

 


9:10 9:40 am       Preliminary Reports

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


Soheila Gholamazad

Dialogue as a Practical Tool for Writing Proof


Tanya Berezovski

On Transcendental Numbers: Teachers' Understanding and Their Practices


Roza Leikin


Connecting Tasks in Pre-Service Teacher Mathematics Education



Keith Weber

Developing Undergraduates' Understanding of Trigonometric Functions in a College Geomtery Course

 


9:40 – 10:10 am     Coffee Break

 


10:10 – 10:50 am      Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


David Kung
Natasha Speer

A Tale of Two Backgrounds: Snapshots of Graduate Students’ Knowledge of Student Thinking in Calculus


Jeffrey M. Rabin
Guershon Harel

Effects of DNR-Based Instruction on the Teaching Behaviors of Algebra Teachers

 


11:00 am – 12:00 pm     Plenary Session


Patrick Thompson
Richard Lesh

A Celebration of Jim Kaput’s Contributions to Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
 
(session continued in the afternoon)

 

 

12:00 – 1:30 pm     Lunch

 


1:30 – 2:10 pm      Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Ivy Kidron

Tommy Dreyfus


Mathematical Justification, Parallel Constructions of Knowledge and the Instrumentation Process


Chris Rasmussen
Jill Nelipovich

Bohdan Rhodehamel


Students’ Proofs for the Shapes of Graphs of Solutions in the Phase Plane

 


2:20 – 3:00 pm      Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Howard Blumenfeld
Chris Rasmussen

Students' Reinvention of Straight-Line Solutions to Systems of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations


Jinfa Cai


Exploring Mathematical Exploration: How College Students Pose and Solve Their Own Problems in Classroom Setting

 


3:10 – 3:40 pm      Preliminary Reports

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


Zsolt Lavicza

The Examination of Factors Influencing the Integration of Computer Algebra Systems in University-Level Mathematics Education


Susan Nickerson
Chris Rasmussen

Learning What Needs to be Justified in Mathematical Proof


Rina Zazkis

Learner Generated Examples: From Pedagogical Tool to Research Tool


Jerome Epstein

The Calculus Concept Inventory

 


3:40 – 4:10 pm     Coffee Break



4:10 – 4:40 pm     Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


 Jim Cottrill
Bradley Beauchamp

 

Students' Conceptions of Indeterminate Forms


Timothy Fukawa-Connelly
Steven Jones

We Know What They Knew, but What do They Know?


Lynn D. Tarlow

Students' Use of Representations to Develop Ideas in Combinatorics

 

4:50 – 5:50 pm     Plenary Session


Maria Blanton
Guershon Harel

A Celebration of Jim Kaput’s Contributions to Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
 
(continuation of morning session)

 


6:30 – 9:00 pm     Banquet




SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25

 

7:30 am – 5:00 pm     Registration



8:30 – 9:00 am       Preliminary Reports

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


Manya Raman

Videocases as a Didactical Intervention in an "Introduction to Proof" Course


Bradley Beauchamp

Exploring Calculus Students' Understanding of L'Hopital's Rule


Timothy Gutmann
Emiliano
Gomez
Eric Hsu

Network Analysis as Theory  Building for Understanding Graduate Student Communities


Zsolt Lavicza
Darryl Koch

The Evaluation of the Effectiveness of pre-Freshman Summer Mathematics Courses on the Academic Performance of Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students

 

9:10 – 9:40 am       Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D

Salon E

 

Katrina Piatek-Jimenez

 

Considering the Norms and Practices of Mathematicians when Analyzing an Advanced Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom

 


Allison McCulloch

Building an Understanding of Student Use of Graphing Calculators as a Tool for Problem Solving


David E. Meel

A Continued Look at the Impact of Web-Based Linear Algebra Tools on Understanding


Karen Allen

 

Reasoning with Time as Parameter in Differential Equations


Palma Benko

 

 


9:40 – 10:10 am     Coffee Break

 


10:10 – 10:50 am       Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Natasha Speer
Nicole Johnson
Sharon Strickland

Beste Gucler


Undergraduate Mathematics Teachers' Knowledge of Students' Strategies and Difficulties with Derivative Problems


Michael Oehrtman

Model Analysis in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Research

 


11:00 – 11:40 am      Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Jessica Knapp

A Framework to Examine Definition use in Proof


Elizabeth B. Uptegrove
Carolyn A. Maher

Building Mathematical Connections through Communications

 


11:40 am – 1:00 pm     Lunch

 

 

1:00 – 1:30 pm       Preliminary Reports


Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D

Salon E

Rob Ely

Student Obstacles and Historical Obstacles to Foundational Concepts of Calculus


Hamide Dogan-Dunlap

Intermediate Algebra Students’ Language-Based Knowledge and Their Conceptualization of Function


Christine Larson
Robert Mayes

Impact of Enhancing Reflection and Discourse in College Algebra

Maria Trigueros Gaisman
Rafael Martínez-Planell

Students Ideas on Functions of Two Variables


Shabnam Kavousian


What Learner-Generated Examples Reveals about Students’ Understanding of Combinatorial Structures?

 


1:40 – 2:40 pm     Plenary Talk

 

Carolyn Maher

 

What Can Research On Pre-College Math Learning Contribute to Undergraduate Mathematics Learning and Teaching?

 

 


2:50 – 3:30 pm       Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Vicki Sealey
Michael Oehrtman

Student Understanding of Accumulation and Riemann Sums


Kyeong Hah Roh

Association of Students' Conception of Limits with Their Levels of Reversibility in the Context of Sequences

 


3:40 – 4:20        Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Karen D. King

Expanding the Participation Metaphor: What is the Development of Mathematical Practice?


Jennifer Christian Smith
Sera Yoo

Students’ Strategies for Constructing Mathematical Proofs in a Problem-Based Undergraduate Course

 


5:00 pm     Bus departs for Penn Station

 


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26



8:30 – 9:00 am        Preliminary Reports

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


Marianna Bogomolny

Learner-Generated Examples: An inquiry into Students’ Understanding of Linear Algebra


Carla van de Sande

Spontaneous Online Discussions in Mathematics


Guershon Harel

Osvaldo Soto

Patterns of Change in the Teaching Actions and Behaviors of an In-Service Teacher






 


9:10 – 9:50 am        Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B


Keith Weber

How do Undergraduates Complete Homework in Abstract Algebra and What Do They Learn From Doing It?


Arthur B. Powell

Developing Deep, Connected, and Durable Understanding of Combinatorics

 


9:50 – 10:20 am       Coffee Break

 


10:20 – 10:50 am         Contributed Talks

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


Dale Winter

Effects of Highly Contextualized Learning Activities on Students’ Mathematical and non-Mathematical Recall


Irene Bloom

Talking Math: Mathematical Language and Explanations in a Course for Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers


Janet G. Walter

Student-to-Student Questioning: A Case for Autonomous Scaffolding


Alexandra Gomes

Do we say what we mean?
Conceptions held by (future) primary school teachers concerning the concept of angle


 

 

11:00 – 11:30          Preliminary Reports

Salon A

Salon B

Salon C

Salon D


Vilma Mesa

Is this the answer? Is this what I was supposed to do? Control Structures in Introductory Calculus Textbooks


Nicole Engelke

Teaching Innovations for Related Rates Problems in First Semester Calculus


Stine Timmermann

Dialogue based teaching practice in an undergraduate analysis course





 

 

11:40 am     Closing