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The Experiences Of A Rural Mississippi Mathematics Teacher: A Case Study, John Hamilton Lamb May 2006

The Experiences Of A Rural Mississippi Mathematics Teacher: A Case Study, John Hamilton Lamb

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigates my experiences as a rural Mississippi secondary mathematics teacher. The culture surrounding accountability testing and rural education as well as student perceptions of my mathematics instruction and classroom management were investigated. With recent educational legislation such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, teachers and students are experiencing education differently than teachers and students of the past. Through this basic interpretive case study, I sought to increase the limited research surrounding student perceptions of rural mathematics instruction and accountability testing and to provide a descriptive image of teaching in this rural school. The students, administrators, …

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Math Anxiety: What It Is And How It Can Be Prevented By Elementary Classroom Teachers, Amy Christenson May 2006

Math Anxiety: What It Is And How It Can Be Prevented By Elementary Classroom Teachers, Amy Christenson

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

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Σary, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Mathematics Department May 2006

Σary, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Mathematics Department

Math Department Newsletters

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How Have Teachers Affected The Disinterest Towards Mathematics?, Amy Brown May 2006

How Have Teachers Affected The Disinterest Towards Mathematics?, Amy Brown

Senior Honors Projects

In our school system today there is a collective disinterest and lack of enthusiasm towards mathematics as a whole. This apathy is prevalent as early as elementary school and continues through higher education. It is disheartening that so many students avoid mathematics because of their misconception that it is too difficult and has little value in their future. How well prepared are our teachers to deal with this? I began my research by looking at the past perceptions of mathematics and how the reform movement has changed this perspective. I also looked at the changing standards and how the Principles …

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Teaching Time Savers: A Recommendation For Recommendations, Michael E. Orrison Jr. May 2006

Teaching Time Savers: A Recommendation For Recommendations, Michael E. Orrison Jr.

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

I admit it — I enjoy writing recommendation letters for my students. I like
learning about their hopes and dreams, where they have been and where they want to go. A recommendation letter is an opportunity to remind myself how much my students can grow while they are in college, and how much I have grown as an instructor, advisor, and mentor.

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Non-Normality In Scalar Delay Differential Equations, Jacob Nathaniel Stroh Apr 2006

Non-Normality In Scalar Delay Differential Equations, Jacob Nathaniel Stroh

Mathematics and Statistics

Analysis of stability for delay differential equations (DDEs) is a tool in a variety of fields such as nonlinear dynamics in physics, biology, and chemistry, engineering and pure mathematics. Stability analysis is based primarily on the eigenvalues of a discretized system. Situations exist in which practical and numerical results may not match expected stability inferred from such approaches. The reasons and mechanisms for this behavior can be related to the eigenvectors associated with the eigenvalues. When the operator associated to a linear (or linearized) DDE is significantly non-normal, the stability analysis must be adapted as demonstrated here. Example DDEs are …

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Mathematics Discipline Senior Seminar Assessment Report 2005-2006, Mathematics Discipline Apr 2006

Mathematics Discipline Senior Seminar Assessment Report 2005-2006, Mathematics Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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Abstracts Of Papers, 84th Annual Meeting Of The Virginia Academy Of Science Apr 2006

Abstracts Of Papers, 84th Annual Meeting Of The Virginia Academy Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Full abstracts of papers for the 84th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 25-26, 2006, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

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What Does It Mean To Preservice Mathematics Teachers To Anticipate Student Responses?, Matthew M. Webb Mar 2006

What Does It Mean To Preservice Mathematics Teachers To Anticipate Student Responses?, Matthew M. Webb

Theses and Dissertations

Lesson study is a form of professional development for teachers adopted in recent years from Japan. Introducing lesson study to U.S. teachers and researchers has been the focus of most of the literature on this subject. Much of the literature outlines how lesson study works and describes its essential features. One of the features of lesson study is anticipating student responses, also known as anticipating student thinking. Anticipating student responses is passingly described in lesson study literature. This research was conducted to understand what it means to anticipate student responses for preservice mathematics teachers in a lesson study group. Lesson …

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Gender And Educational And Occupational Choices, Jacquelynne Sue Eccles Mar 2006

Gender And Educational And Occupational Choices, Jacquelynne Sue Eccles

STEM for Success Resources

Why Do Women and Men Make Such Different Choices for Their Lives? In most cultures, women and men are concentrated in quite different occupations and roles. Why? This presentation goal is to provide one perspective on this quite complex question – a perspective grounded in Expectancy –Value Models of Achievement-related Choices

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A General Theory Of Almost Convex Functions, S J. Dilworth, Ralph Howard, James W. Roberts Mar 2006

A General Theory Of Almost Convex Functions, S J. Dilworth, Ralph Howard, James W. Roberts

Faculty Publications

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Quantum Stochastic Dilation Of A Class Of Quantum Dynamical Semigroups And Quantum Random Walks., Lingaraj Sahu Dr. Feb 2006

Quantum Stochastic Dilation Of A Class Of Quantum Dynamical Semigroups And Quantum Random Walks., Lingaraj Sahu Dr.

Doctoral Theses

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Studies On Pairing-Based And Constant Round Dynamic Group Key Agreement., Ratna Dutta Dr. Feb 2006

Studies On Pairing-Based And Constant Round Dynamic Group Key Agreement., Ratna Dutta Dr.

Doctoral Theses

This thesis describes research that I conducted during the course of my Ph.D. study at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. I hope that this work is of use and will be carried on.I would like to begin by thanking my supervisor, Prof. Rana Barua for his support and endless patience. He has provided me background in Cryptography, Combinatorics and Theory of Automata during the period 2000-2002 of my course work of M.Tech in Computer Science at Indian Statistical Institute. I really appreciate his extraordinary patience in reading my numerous inferior drafts, for listening and analyzing all my ideas, forcing me …

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Duan's Fixed Point Theorem: Proof And Generalization, Martin Arkowitz Feb 2006

Duan's Fixed Point Theorem: Proof And Generalization, Martin Arkowitz

Dartmouth Scholarship

Let X be an H-space of the homotopy type of a connected, finite CW-complex, f : X→X any map and pk : X→X the kth power map. Duan proved that pkf : X → X has a fixed point if k ≥ 2. We give a new, short and elementary proof of this. We then use rational homotopy to generalize to spaces X whose rational cohomology is the tensor product of an exterior algebra on odd dimensional generators with the tensor product of truncated polynomial algebras on even dimensional generators. The role of the power map …

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Water Pollution - Watersheds, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Water Pollution - Watersheds, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science Of Mathematics And Natural Disasters: Katrina Path, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science Of Mathematics And Natural Disasters: Katrina Path, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Density Of Liquids, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Density Of Liquids, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Louisiana Wetlands, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Louisiana Wetlands, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Scientific Notation Through Powers Of 10, Louisiana Wetlands, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Scientific Notation Through Powers Of 10, Louisiana Wetlands, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science Of Mathematics And Natural Disasters: Hurricane Basics, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science Of Mathematics And Natural Disasters: Hurricane Basics, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Katrina Line Segment Track, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Katrina Line Segment Track, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Tides And Surge, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Tides And Surge, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Area, Volume, And Energy, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Area, Volume, And Energy, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Deer Island Damage And Debris, Oh My!, Center For Science And Mathematics Education Jan 2006

Science And Mathematics Of Natural Disasters: Deer Island Damage And Debris, Oh My!, Center For Science And Mathematics Education

Teacher Resource Documents

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Range Of The Fractional Weak Discrepancy Function, Alan Shuchat, Randy Shull, Ann N. Trenk Jan 2006

Range Of The Fractional Weak Discrepancy Function, Alan Shuchat, Randy Shull, Ann N. Trenk

Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this paper we describe the range of values that can be taken by the fractional weak discrepancy of a poset and characterize semiorders in terms of these values. In [6], we defined the fractional weak discrepancy wdF (P) of a poset P=(V,≺) to be the minimum nonnegative k for which there exists a function f:V→R satisfying (1) if a≺b then f(a)+1≤f(b) and (2) if a∥b then |f(a)−f(b)|≤k. This notion builds on previous work on weak discrepancy in [3, 7, 8]. We prove here that the range of values of the function wdF is the set of rational numbers …

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Jesuit Education And Mathematics: Review Of The Literature On Jesuit Education And Mathematics, Ernesto A. Diaz Jan 2006

Jesuit Education And Mathematics: Review Of The Literature On Jesuit Education And Mathematics, Ernesto A. Diaz

Education | Print Theses

The purpose of the thesis is to review recent literature on diverse aspects of Jesuit cation including its historiography, pedagogy, teaching, philosophy, and its contributions to Id of Mathematics. The time frame studied has been divided in four main periods. Origins; encompassing the founding of the Society of Jesus in 1540 to the publication of the Ratio Studiorum in 1599. Expansion; covering from the publication of the Ratio to the suppression of Society in 1773. Restoration: covers the period between the 1814 Restoration, until the ginning of the Vatican II Council. Renewal; the Society in the post-Vatican area to the …

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Coordinated Effects Of Distal Mutations On Environmentally Coupled Tunneling In Dihydrofolate Reductase, Lin Wang, Nina M. Goodey, Stephen J. Benkovic, Amnon Kohen Jan 2006

Coordinated Effects Of Distal Mutations On Environmentally Coupled Tunneling In Dihydrofolate Reductase, Lin Wang, Nina M. Goodey, Stephen J. Benkovic, Amnon Kohen

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

One of the most intriguing questions in modern enzymology is whether enzyme dynamics evolved to enhance the catalyzed chemical transformation. In this study, dihydrofolate reductase, a small monomeric protein that catalyzes a single C-H-C transfer, is used as a model system to address this question. Experimental and computational studies have proposed a dynamic network that includes two residues remote from the active site (G121 and M42). The current study compares the nature of the H-transfer step of the WT enzyme, two single mutants, and their double mutant. The contribution of quantum mechanical tunneling and enzyme dynamics to the H-transfer step …

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History Of The Department Of Mathematical Sciences At The University Of Montana: A Collection Of Interviews, Varoujan Bedros, Daniel F. Finch, Charles Myers, Merry Rampy, Johnny W. Lott (Editor) Jan 2006

History Of The Department Of Mathematical Sciences At The University Of Montana: A Collection Of Interviews, Varoujan Bedros, Daniel F. Finch, Charles Myers, Merry Rampy, Johnny W. Lott (Editor)

History of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UM: A Collection of Interviews

A collection of transcribed oral history interviews conducted in 1999 with current and recently retired faculty members of the Department of Mathematics.

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When Am I Ever Going To Use This? A Mathematics Investigation Involving Animals, Nicole Lynn Drake Jan 2006

When Am I Ever Going To Use This? A Mathematics Investigation Involving Animals, Nicole Lynn Drake

All Graduate Projects

This project is a format for developing investigations that includes a sample set of investigations that teachers can use as a resource. This project develops an investigation that assists teachers in presenting math concepts within the context of his or her students' everyday life. Investigations use real live experiences as background and context for student learning. By developing a problem that the students can relate to, the student's attitudes and depth of knowledge will improve. This project looks into, the history of reform in mathematics education, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards, current curricula addressing reform, math workshops, …

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An Investigation Of Pre-Service Teachers' And Professional Mathematicians' Perceptions Of Mathematical Proof At The Secondary School Level, David M. Gray Jan 2006

An Investigation Of Pre-Service Teachers' And Professional Mathematicians' Perceptions Of Mathematical Proof At The Secondary School Level, David M. Gray

Doctoral Dissertations

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM] states that by the time students graduate high school, they should learn to present "arguments consisting of logically rigorous deductions of conclusions from hypotheses" (NCTM, 2000, p. 56) in "written forms that would be acceptable to professional mathematicians" (NCTM, 2000, p. 58). Research studies indicate, however, that students and teachers have difficulty with many aspects of mathematical proof, including its nature and meaning. In addition, there appears to be a disconnect between school teachers' and university mathematicians' expectations for their respective students regarding mathematical proof. This study examined the perceptions of thirteen …

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