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Voices From The Reform Movement, Allyn Jackson

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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A University Mathematician's View Of What's Wrong With University Mathematics Education, Reuben Hersh

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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"Modern Mathematics" At Sonoma State University, C. E. Falbo

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Book Review: Introductory Algebra: A Just In Time Approach, By Alice Kaseberg, Gayle Smith

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Attitudes Of Students To Independent Learning, S. Kenneth Houston

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Mathematical And Theological Beliefs: A Cognitive Science Perspective, Ron Benbow

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

In recent years, research studies have shown that control decisions and processes, beliefs about the nature of mathematics, attitudes, and other affective variables have enormous impact on the mathematical performance of students. This paper gives an overview of the research on mathematical beliefs and reviews some work done in Christian education relating to theological beliefs. It then compares the two.

Using Data To Develop Mathematical Methods, Philip R. Carlson

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

An analysis of ordered pairs and their scatter plots leads to interesting questions related to mathematical modeling. Some statistical methods suggest ways to approach this analysis of the ordered pairs. Both high school and college methods are illustrated in this paper.

The Intermediate Value Theorem, Dale Varberg

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

The Intermediate Value Theorem (a continuous function on an interval assumes all values between any two of its values) is one of the big theorems of calculus. Yet the theorem is absent or briefly mentioned in most calculus textbooks. The theorem deserves better as we intend to show by listing ten picturesque consequences that we think could enliven any calculus course.

What Does A Computer Program Mean? An Introduction To Denotational Semantics, Gene B. Chase

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

This paper is for mathematicians who are curious about how topology is being used to prove computer programs correct. Those advanced parts have been limited to Sections III, V, and VI, and they are marked by a [clock symbol]. By contrast, sections II, IV, and VII are suitable as a companion to existing textbooks in a Computer Science course such as Organization of Programming Languages, the course CS 8 as described in Curriculum [1979]. Perhaps in a first reading you might read just those sections.

Among many books and articles on the semantics, or meaning, of computer languages, …

Statistics, Mathematics, And Teaching, David S. Moore

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

In discussing our teaching, we may focus on content, what we want our students to learn, or on pedagogy, what we do to help them learn. These two topics are of course related. In particular, changes in pedagogy are often driven in part by changing priorities for what kinds of things we want students to learn. It is nonetheless convenient to address content and pedagogy separately. Pedagogy, certainly the less specific of the two, is the topic of my second paper. This paper concerns content, and in particular contains one side of a conversation between a statistician and mathematicians …

Constructivism, Mathematics Education And Christianity, Ted Watanabe

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

In this paper, I briefly describe what constructivism is and its implications in the field of mathematics education. I will then discuss what this epistemology may mean to Christians who are in the field of mathematics education

The 25 Greatest Mathematicians, Robert Brabenec

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

Many have tried to determine the greatest mathematicians in history. The purpose of this paper is to consider making such a list, along with some criteria to consider in making a rank order of these mathematicians.

Experimenting With The Calculus Laboratory Setting, Glen Van Brummelen

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

Reform of post-secondary mathematics education, particularly introductory calculus, is becoming commonplace across North America. Although there are many varieties of reform, most can be placed within the philosophical camp of social constructivism. According to this movement, mathematical knowledge is constructed in an interactive way through instructor-student and inter-student dialogue, rather than built in an axiomatic sense such as the "new math" of 20 years ago, or in the reductionistic, algorithmic sense dominant in secondary and introductory college mathematics. While I hold serious concerns about the relativizing of mathematical knowledge that occurs when social constructivism is adopted as a philosophy of …

Improving The Teaching Of Mathematics, David S. Moore

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

No one concerned about the teaching of college mathematics--and few mathematicians who are not concerned--can have missed the movement to reform teaching in the mathematical sciences at all levels. The teaching of any active branch of knowledge, like the church, is of course "reforming and ever to be reformed." Calls to modernize what we offer students are always with us. What is striking about the current reform movement is not only its momentum but the fact that it centers on pedagogy rather than on content. We ought, say the reformers, to radically alter our style of teaching. My purpose in …

Introduction (1995), David L. Neuhouser

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

Tenth ACMS Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

Schedule (1995), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

Tenth ACMS Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

Table Of Contents (1995), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1995

Tenth ACMS Conference on Mathematics from a Christian Perspective

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 21-22, 1995 [Program, 107th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Program Summary --- 5
General Session Speakers --- 8
Awards --- 11
Symposia Programs --- 12
Poster Session14
Map --- Centerfold
Section Programs/Special Sessions --- 17
Agricultural Sciences --- 17
Anthropology --- 17
Botany --- 19
Cellular & Molecular Biology --- 20
Chemistry, Inorganic --- 21
Chemistry, Organic --- 23
Conservation --- 24
Engineering --- 25
Geology --- 27
Physics --- 29
Physiology/Zoology --- 29
Psychology Linguistics --- 30
Science Teaching --- 31
Annual Meeting Committee --- 33
Local Arrangements Committee --- 33
IAS Officers & Directors --- 34
Future Meetings --- 34

Program Abstracts, 107th Session, Iowa Academy Of Science, April 21-22, 1995, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Presentation abstracts from the annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science

Iowa Academy Of Science President's Banquet [107th Session], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Program:

Introductions
Awards:
Distinguished Fellow: George Burnet
Distinguished Iowa Science Teaching: Gary E. Downs
Distinguished Service: Harold McNabb
President's Address - Daryl Smith
Response - Ross Iverson, President-Elect
General Sessions II - Dr. Thomas Starzl, "Why Allografts are Accepted: The Study in Applied Biology"

"Be Not Afraid", Juana Acrivos

Faculty Publications, Chemistry

If l asked what am I doing here? the answer should be that I am here to recount the experience of a condensed matter scientist teaching frontier chemical physics at a so called "Undergraduate Institution with ≈47% Minorities" But should one distinguish undergraduate from graduate ability, minority from non-minority ability to do frontier science that shall benefit everyone? I hope to convince you the answer is no; the title of my address was borrowed from Pope John Paul's recent best seller in order to have the courage to do the job. This attitude is probably no different from anyone else …

A New Start For College Mathematics; Or Mathematics' Greatest Hits, Harald M. Ness

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Missing Dimensions Of Mathematics Instruction, Walter Meyer

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Writing Assignments In An Abstract Algebra Course, Krystina K. Leganza

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Some Notes On How Students Perceive Mathematics, Joan Countryman

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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What Is Mathematics?: An Answer To Our Liberal Arts Dilemma, Bruce Williamson

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Demonstrating Hysteresis In Ferroelectric Materials, Deborah Schurr, Timothy Usher

Physics Faculty Publications

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Gender Patterns In Science Course Enrollment And Course Drop Patterns In An Iowa Senior High School, Sandra L. Stephen, Elizabeth D. Riesz

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

In order to ascertain whether local patterns corresponded to the national trends, which show fewer female and minority students enrolling in and completing high school physical science courses, the Cedar Rapids Community School District studied the course enrollment and drop patterns of seniors in one of the District high schools. Male students predominated in physics and AP Chemistry, and the proportion of males in AP Physics was significantly greater than the proportion of females. The proportion of females in chemistry was significantly greater than their proportion in the senior class. Course dropping patterns revealed a statistically significant relationship between gender …

Editorial Board & Iowa Academy Of Science Officers And Directors

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

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Back Cover

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

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