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A Response To Dancis, Margaret Schaffer

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Another Response To Dancis, Ted Eisenberg

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Evaluation In The Mathematics Classroom, Emam Hoosain, B. Naraine

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Calculus For The Liberal Arts: A Humanistic Approach, Kathleen Shannon

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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The Role Of Values In Mathematics Education, Murad Jurdak

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Students’ Conceptions Of Mathematics And The Transition From A Standards-Based Reform Curriculum To College Mathematics, Rebecca K. Walker

Dissertations

Students’ conceptions of mathematics are shaped by the environment within which they learn mathematics and in turn they affect the manner in which students engage in mathematics.

This study examined students’ conceptions about learning, knowing, and doing mathematics after studying four years of a Standards-based reform high school mathematics curriculum developed by the Core-Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP). Student conceptions were examined at the end of high school (n = 2S6) and after one semester of college mathematics (n = 92). The study also provides case studies of six students as they navigated from the CPMP curriculum through college Precalculus or …

Students' Mental Models Of Electricity In Simple Dc Circuits, Andrew C. Isola Iii

Dissertations

This study presents the results of research into middle school students' knowledge about the nature and mechanisms of action of electricity in simple DC circuits. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders (n=99) were asked a series of questions about the roles of bulbs, batteries, wires, and electricity in circuits. Almost half the number of students (n=42) were found to have used detailed, well-defined, and logically consistent mental models based on their responses. A total of 15 different detailed mental models were documented in these students that belonged to one of four different general model types: (1) round trip flow using both …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 11, No. 5, December 1999

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

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What Else Do We Forget To Tell Our Teachers?: A Response To Dancis, Stephen Sproule

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Recruitment And Retention Of African American Males In High School Mathematics: Have We Achieved Access To The Success Stairway?, Sheryl Mcglamery, Carol Mitchell

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

“Most schools desire that more minorities participate, yet finding a successful formula often proves difficult and elusive.”

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network Newsletter – Fall 1999

Nebraska Earth Systems Education Network

Content:

“Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.” by Dave Gosselin, NESEN Director

New and Improved NESEN Web Page by Mark Mesarch

NESEN at NATS 1999

STEDII Weather Is Persistent for Five Years by Mark Mesarch

Virtual Nebraska Update – by Rick Perk

Video Programs Available from the USGS EROS Data Center - by Duane Mohlman

Perilous Beauty--The Hidden Dangers of Mount Rainier – by Duane Mohlman

Earth Science in the Community

New Publication from the Conservation and Survey Division – by Duane Mohlman

1999 NESEN Summer Workshops

Dave Gosselin Receives Catalyst Award

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 11, No. 4, October 1999

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

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Entomology classes 1999 fall semester

Fall 905 seminar schedule

Entomology seminar series, 1999 fall seminar

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 11, No. 3, July 7, 1999

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

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Open letter from Sharron Quisenberry

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Nova, 1999 Summer, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

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Recent IMSA graduate Keith Winstein of Oak Park spent part of his summer doing something quite unconventional for an 18-year-old.

Winstein was the only student in a group of 11 official United States delegates to attend the first World Conference on Science (WCS) in Budapest, Hungary, from June 26 to July 1. The conference brought together 2,500 scientists from 150 countries.

Middle School Math Teaching And How It Harms Our Children, Jerome Dancis

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Is Our Practice Of Humanistic Mathematics Actually Humane?, Jack Lochhead

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Changing The Subject, Or, Would You Hire A Good Clarinet Teacher To Teach Your Child The Violin?, Jerome Dancis

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Is Mathematics Education Taking A Step Backward?, Frances Kuwahara Lang

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

This article addresses the current political, socioeconomic, and educational state of mathematics education in California. The “back-to-basics” movement in mathematics mirrors the “back-to-phonics” movement in language arts. At a time when ethnic minorities have become the majority, the dominant culture has chosen to revert back to practices that are inequitable and empower the elite. Critical educators must carry on the dialogue necessary to empower the disenfranchised mathematically and undermine the social injustice and economic inequality that will result if this movement is embraced.

A Window Into The Life Of Ramanujan, Marlene Neff

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Research Papers In A Math Methods Course: A Window Into The Life Of Ramanujan, John Grant Mcloughlin

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Between Childhood And Mathematics: Word Problems In Mathematical Education, André Toom

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Using Writing To Connect With Our Mathematics Students, Ann Sitomer

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Analogic Thinking In Science And Math, Martha D. Patton

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

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Challenges For Directors Of University Natural Science Museums, Hugh H. Genoways

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Universities and natural science museums have a long, productive history; however, this has been an uneasy alliance in the United States at least since the 1880s. Decreasing resources and increasing expectations have made the position of all museum directors extremely difficult, but the situation for university natural science museum directors is probably the most complicated among these because they direct museums that are small administrative units within larger university organizations. Some of their challenges include conflict between museum and university missions, governance issues, relationship between director and the university administrator/board member, lack of understanding of museum functions, middle management role …

Report On The Elementary Teacher Survey Pilot Study On Behalf Of The Columbus Urban Systemic Initiative, Steven R. Rogg

Steven R Rogg

This report completes the pilot study conducted by the Columbus Public Schools’ (CPS) Urban Systemic Initiative (USI)1 and the Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching in Mathematics Science and Technology (The Center@IMSA) of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA). This initial pilot study was designed to test the Elementary Teacher Survey prepared by the USI Teacher Support Teams. A validation study, to follow in the spring, will seek evidence of program impact on teaching practices in science and mathematics classrooms. In other words, it will validate the findings of the Elementary Teacher Survey via direct classroom observation …

Photochemistry And Pinhole Photography: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, Angeliki A. Rigos, Kevin Salemme

Visual & Performing Arts Faculty Publications

This interdisciplinary activity combines chemistry and art through the construction and use of a pinhole camera. We focused on the chemistry of the black and white photographic process as the science component of this activity. The reactions involved are good examples of photochemistry and multiphase chemical reactions, since the light sensitive materials (silver halides) are in the form of a gelatin emulsion of microscopic crystals.

The Deconstruction Of Mathematics, David J. Stucki

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1999

This paper is a criticism of Reuben Hersh's What is Mathematics, Really? and the humanist philosophy of mathematics.

Teaching Linear Algebra And Abstract Algebra With Two Way Video And Audio, Edward Reinke

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1999

An outline of a presentation discussing teaching two different algebra courses long-distance as well as in a classroom.

Lewis Carroll: Author, Mathematician, And Christian, David L. Neuhouser

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1999

Although a Christian, an author, and a mathematician, Charles Letwidge Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) wrote very few works in which these three aspects of his person was present. The only examples of him merging these interests are in Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. This paper will explore what motivated him to make these works and whether or not they were successful.

Book Review - The Language Of Mathematics: Making The Invisible Visible By Kieth Devlin, Charles R. Hampton

ACMS Conference Proceedings 1999

Charles R. Hampton reviews The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible. By Kieth Devlin. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1998