ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

First Year Mathematics Seminars

2000 - 01

The undergraduate department FYM Seminars meets at least once a month for a 50-minute seminar  presentation, preceeded by refreshments. The speakers range from students and faculty to visitors from other institutions or industry. The department seeks a variety of speakers on a wide range of topics. This year, the seminar committee consists of Paul Vaz (Chair) (paul.vaz@asu.edu), Irene Bloom (irene.bloom@asu.edu) and Doug Williams (williams@math.la.asu.edu).

 

2000 - 01  Seminar Schedule

(click on titles to see Abstracts)
DATE
LOCATION TIME
SPEAKER
TITLE/ BIO
September 27, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Irene Bloom
Reteaching Preservice Elementary Teachers with a Focus on The Concepts
October 4, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Richard Reynolds
Generalizations of the Riemann Integral
October 11, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Jay Abramson
Enhancing the FYM Classroom with Short Technology Exercises
 October 25, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m. 
 Scott Martin
 Grading: Using Statistics and Still Being Fair
November 2, 2000
(Thursday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Marilyn Carlson
Teaching for Understanding
November 8, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Sharon Walker,
Terri Miller, &
Michelle Nebelung
 The Teaching Team
November 15, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Ed Ihrig
My experience teaching FYM courses from an upper level perspective 
November 29, 2000
(Wednesday)
PSA 113
4:30 p.m.
Glenn Hurlbert
The Simplex Algorithm for MAT 119
February 21, 2001
(Wednesday)
ECA Lab 225 
4:40 p.m.
Ruvi Wijesuriya
Enhancing Instruction Through Technology
February 28, 2001
(Wednesday)
PSA 102
4:30 p.m.
 Susan Ledlow
 Introduction to Cooperative Learning 
March 22, 2001
(Thursday)
 PSA 308
3:00 p.m.
Shandy Hauk
Research and practice in mathematical self-awareness among undergraduates.
March 28, 2001
(Wednesday)
ECA Lab 221
2:40 p.m.
Joe Rody
Creating Maple Worksheets for Use in Mathematics Courses 
April 4, 2001
(Wednesday)
PSA 118
3:40 p.m.
Online Homework 
Committee (FYM)
What is Blackboard?
April 11, 2001
(Wednesday)
PSA 118
3:40 p.m.
Online Homework Committee(FYM)
Beyond Blackboard
April 25, 2001
(Wednesday)
ECA Lab 225
3:40 p.m.
John Jones
Online Homework with WebWork