40th Annual Fall Conference
Keynote Speaker PowerPoints
Van Henson, Lawrence
Livermore Labs
A Child's Garden of Graphs
PowerPoint
Keith Devlin, Stanford
University
The Symbol Barrier:
Using Video Games to Overcome the Greatest Obstacle to Good
Mathematics Learning
PowerPoint
Session Speaker PowerPoints and Handouts:
Kathleen Almy and Heather Foes, Rock Valley CollegeMLCS: Redesigning a New Pathway for Non-STEM Majors
PowerPoint
MaryAnne Anthony + Lynn Maracek, Santa Ana College
Teaching Conceptual Understanding through Maanipulatives
PowerPoint
Kenneth Brown, College of San Mateo
Data-Analysis-rich Interactive Statistics Learning Materials
PowerPoint
Burrill/Dick/Ellis
Students Can Understand Mathematics Using Mathematical Software
PowerPoint
Mark Clark, Palomar College
Encouraging Critical Thinking and Communication in Developmental Math
PowerPoint Handout Exponent Game Cards Exponent Game Cards Word
Joe Conrad, Solano
College
Oresme to Euler to $1,000,000
PowerPoint
Robert Feldman, Sherri Messersmith,
and Larry Perez
Fully Integrate Study Skills into Your Classroom Using
P.O.W.E.R.
PowerPoint
Hal Huntsman + Myra Snell + Tue
Rust
Opening the Algebra Gate: A pre-Statistics Path to
Transfer-Level Math
Handouts
Jay Lehmann, College of San
Mateo
the Function of Functions in PreCalculus
PowerPoint
John Martin, Santa Rosa Junior
College
Some Irrationals I Have
Known
PowerPoint
Zwi Reznik, Fresno City College
Perverse Polynomials
PowerPoint
Ian Walton, Mission College
What’s New with State and National Projects that Impact Our
Classrooms?
PowerPoint
Survey Results
John Wilkins, CSU Dominguez
Hills
Developmental Mathematics Program: Systemic Progress
at a Four-Year University
PowerPoint
Video Games and Education: What Homework's Biggest Enemy Has to Teach Us About Teaching
PowerPoint
Join us for the CMC3 40th
annual fall conference!
Portola Hotel and Spa
Friday December 7 – Saturday December 8, 2012
To make your hotel reservations
click here.
Registration Now Open:
Click here for the registration
form in Word.
Click here for the registration form
in pdf.
Conference Program: Click here for the full conference program
Mini-Program Click here for the Monterey Conference Mini-Program
Student Poster Session: There will be a student poster session on Saturday during the lunch break. Please stop by and admire what our students have done.
Call For Poster Judges: If you are interested in helping judge the student poster session contact Rebecca Fouquette.
Call For Proposals: The speakers for this fall's conference have all been confirmed, but if you are interested in being a back up speaker or a speaker for 2013, please fill out the Monterey 2012 call for proposals form by clicking here and indicating whether you want to be a back up speaker or are interested in speaking in 2013. Any speakers who are interested in giving a talk in the 2013 Recreational Math Conference in Tahoe can fill out the Tahoe 2013 call for proposals form by clicking here.
Vendors: Any vendor interested in having a booth or an ad for the conference please follow this link for information.
This Year's Keynote Speakers
Keith Devlin, Stanford University:THE SYMBOL BARRIER - Using video games to overcome the greatest obstacle to good mathematics learning.
Most current mathematics education video games are essentially new delivery mechanisms for traditional instruction. In the coming decade we should see classroom pedagogy start to change in significant ways, as we learn how to take full advantage of what the medium offers.Based in part on Devlin’s book Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Medium for Learning, published in March 2011 by AK Peters.
A Child’s Garden of Graphs -
How a pinch of linear algebra, a smattering of graph theory, and
a spoonful of computer science is dominating your life
How do Netflix (or Amazon) recommend the movies (or products)
you may like? How do Google, Alta Vista, or Bing assemble their
lists of results? How does Mapquest figure out the best route
from here to there? How does Expedia find an airline itinerary?
How do Facebook or LinkedIn find people you may know? How do
dating sites propose possible matches? How do banks catch
potentially fraudulent activities? These, and many, many more
are examples of graphs in action. While some of the graph
algorithms are subtle and complex, a surprising number are
remarkably simple. Many can best be understood and implemented
with the tools of linear algebra, relying heavily on the
matrix-vector product, matrix factorizations, and spectral
analysis.
But the modern world is also the world of exponential growth of
information, and many of the graphs behind these applications
are rapidly growing to extraordinary size. How do we deal with
graphs having tens or hundreds of billions of vertices? Will it
be necessary to work with trillion- or even quadrillion-vertex
graphs? How can we deal with information at enormous scales?
Where the mathematician and the applications scientist devise
algorithms to organize, mine, or employ the information, it
falls to the computer scientist to create the architectures,
hardware, software environments, and the implementations making
the computations possible. Just as the information is evolving,
so are the approaches to computing and the architectures of the
machines.
In this talk, Van Emden Henson will describe some of the
graph-based problems that have become ubiquitous in today’s
world, and the mathematical tools used to address them, and then
will describe some of the challenges and approaches to realizing
these methods on the most modern computational engines.
Friday Afternoon Workshop
Developmental Math - An Open Program: Personalizing Teaching and Learning
2:30 - 4:30 PM Tentatively in Redwood I
Attendees: Everyone interested in developmental
math curriculum, resources and approaches is welcome.
Workshop description:
This workshop will provide an overview of the newly released set
of developmental math resources from the NROC Project. With
support from the Hewlett and Gates Foundations and contributing
NROC Network members, the NROC development team engaged
administrators, instructors and students in the design,
development and pilot testing of these rich-media, adaptable,
affordable resources.
The program contains modules in arithmetic, beginning algebra,
intermediate algebra, geometry, statistics and trigonometry that
are available to import into any learning management system for
integrating into classroom, online, blended, or flipped
instruction. The workshop will explore the resources and
describe some of the unique pilot use cases. The second part of
the workshop will be a discussion among participants about what
professional development and institutional support are essential
for the effective use of these types of flexible resources to
engage students and enhance instructional options. Visit
http://www.HippoCampus.org
to view some of the developmental math media available for free
use, or sign up for access to a demo site at
http://www.NROCmath.org
Presented by Ruth Rominger, Director of Research, The NROC
Project.
call (831) 649-4511 or email: Sandy@portolahotel.com to inquire about rooms
For conference information, contact
Mark Harbison at
harbism@scc.losrios.edu
For registration information, contact
Joe Conrad at Solano
Community College at (707)864-7000 x4372
Joe Conrad
Mathematics Department
4000 Suisun Valley Road
Fairfield, CA 94534
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