32nd AMATYC Annual Conference

The symposium has limited seating and requires a reservation. The symposium may be selected in addition to workshops. Seats will be assigned on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis as payment and completed registration forms are received.

A workshop includes active attendee participation, an in-depth treatment of a skill, and signifi cant handouts. Assignments are made on a space available basis, as conference payments are received. Attendees may register for two workshops.

Thursday Friday Saturday	W1 / W2 / W3 / W4 / W5 / W6 / W7 / W8 / Y1 / W9 / W11 / W12 / W13 / W14 / W15 / W16 / W17/ W18 / W19 / W20 / W21 / W22 / W23 / W24 / W25 / W26 /
Thursday 10:00am–12:00pm	W1 Nothing Old, Something New, Freely Borrowed, No Longer Blue (GE, TP, TT) Jo-Ann G. Williams, Nancy J. Rivers	Back to Top
	The same, old illustration problems got you blue? Need some new, current, interesting, real data to get your students’ attention? Come, peruse our freely-borrowed data sets, and create problems to be used in your classroom. Handouts with NCMATYC-created problems and all data will be provided.
Thursday 10:00am–12:00pm	W2 Using Mental Math, Estimation & Games in Basic Math & Pre-Algebra (D, IS, RB, TP) Sally D. Sestini, Mary E. Clarke, Therese Feldstein, Janice Connal	Back to Top
	This is an interactive, hands-on workshop, which will introduce games and activities that can be used in teaching basic skills courses. Cerritos College faculty are using these activities and games in conjunction with student tutors in the classroom to improve success rates. Handouts will be provided.
Thursday 10:00am–12:00pm	W3 When Am I Ever Going to Use This? Ten Real-Life Applications (C, GE, IS) Frank C. Wilson	Back to Top
	How can instructors assist students to construct relationships between parts of mathematics that they see as different? Participants will examine problems intended to promote growth of mathematical reasoning, with recognition of connections and relationships inherent in the tasks, utilizing the cumulative sum and finite difference features of the graphing calculator.
Thursday 12:30pm–2:30pm	W4 Constructing Meaningful Algebra Test Thursday Items (A, GE, IS) Philip Cheifetz	Back to Top
	Mechanical test items are easy to construct. This workshop will deal with the construction of test items that require a deeper understanding of algebra concepts. The attendees will work in groups to produce such items. Results will be disseminated to all participants.
Thursday 12:30pm–2:30pm	W5 Simulating Structural Failure: A Hands-On Activity for College Algebra (MI, TT) Gary M. Simundza, Nancy Crisler	Back to Top
	Rich, real-world contextual activities can be used to motivate the study of college algebra topics. Participants will explore an activity using inexpensive materials to simulate buckling of a column. Non-linear graphing calculator regression produces a function modeling the observed behavior. Connections to World Trade Center events (1993 and 2001) follow.
Thursday 12:30pm–2:30pm	W6 Understanding Modeling and Regression Through Lab Activities (D, IS, TT) Beverly A. Meyers	Back to Top
	Hands-on data gathering activities using inexpensive materials will provide an understanding of the significance and forms of linear, quadratic, square root, and exponential regression equations. This workshop includes tips on teaching the use of graphic calculators through labs.
Thursday 12:30pm–2:30pm	W7 Create Activities the EEEEEasy Way: Evalu- ate and Take Home Labs (D, IS, TP) Jesse D. Parete, Jr., Carol A. Gudorf	Back to Top
	Participants will experience and learn to create activities using the Five-E method. This approach to enhance instruction by engaging students in both content and process will be evaluated using national standards as the criteria. Lab activities cover developmental through college algebra. Copies of the lab activities will be available.
Thursday 12:30pm–2:30pm	W8 Animating Developmental Algebra Problems with PowerPoint® (D, TT) Brian Mercer	Back to Top
	Microsoft PowerPoint is a great tool for dynamically presenting topics in developmental algebra. Learn how to create animations for a wide variety of problems in this hands-on computer workshop. Participants will receive a link to download additional examples.
Friday 10:30am–12:30pm	W9 Implementing the GAISE Guidelines to Friday Teach Introductory Statistics (A, ST, TT) Robert delMas, Brian E. Smith	Back to Top
	This computer workshop will begin with a brief overview of the Guidelines for Instruction and Assessment in Statistics Education (GAISE). Participants will be lead through one hands-on activity to highlight each of the six GAISE recommendations. Handouts will include additional resources that can be used to implement the GAISE recommendations. (This presentation is being held at the Millennium Hotel.)
Y1 Symposium Friday 11:45–1:45	Moving from Vision to Reality: Implementing Standards (A, GE, TT) Richelle (Rikki) Blair, Francis (Skip) Fennell, Carl C. Cowen This workshop will focus on a small number of selected themes, including Using Technology in Teaching, Classroom Assessment, and Quantitative Literacy. These themes will be addressed from the multiple viewpoints of the AMATYC, NCTM, and MAA standards. Participants will be provided with standards-based information and materials on each theme.	Back to Top
Friday 11:45am–1:45pm	W11 M.C.S.I. Mathematical Crime Scene Friday Investigations (C, IS) Karen B. Gaines	Back to Top
	Engage your students with activities that demonstrate the applications of mathematics in the world of forensic science and crime scene investigations. Several activities will be performed by participants. Applications range from anthropology to bloodstain pattern analysis. Mathematical concepts are drawn from arithmetic through trigonometry.
Friday 11:45am–1:45pm	W12 How Do I Find Out if My Students Learned Anything Today? (A, IS) Scott L. Adamson	Back to Top
	Do you ever leave class wondering if your students have learned anything? Are you ever surprised by what your students have NOT learned? Do you want to engage students in learning mathematics and raise student achievement? Gain ideas on how to find out if students are learning in your class.
Friday 11:45am–1:45pm	W13 Modeling with Excel®, and More (IS, TT) Florence Chambers, Louise (Toni) A. Parise	Back to Top
	This hands-on, computer workshop includes entering and graphing functions in Excel®, using the Chart Wizard® to find the best fit for data and the corresponding regression equation, and using Goal Seek® on compound interest and equilibrium problems. Previous knowledge of Excel® is not required.
Friday 11:45am–1:45pm	W14 Beyond Procedures—Teaching Developmental Algebra Conceptually (D, IS) Richard G. Goldthwait, Deanna M. Oles, Ward J. Shaffer	Back to Top
	Participants will gain insight into conceptually oriented approaches to developmental algebra by experiencing a variety of age-appropriate activities that have been successfully tested in pre/beginning algebra college classrooms. These activities, developed with funding from an NSF grant, help students construct a deeper understanding of key numerical and algebraic ideas.
Friday 2:15pm–4:15pm	W15 The Mathematics of Florence (H) Anne Marie Mosher	Back to Top
	Certainly one of the nursery schools if not the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy, is a symphony of art, science, and math history. The genius of individuals like Brunelleschi, Galileo, Michelangelo, and Masaccio will be celebrated as a tour of the mathematical highlights of Florence is mapped. (This workshop will be repeated on Saturday.)
Friday 2:15pm–4:15pm	W16 Handheld Technology in Developing and Teaching an Algebra Course (A, TT) Wade Ellis, Jr.	Back to Top
	Technology can have an “Oh Wow!” aspect in mathematics courses. This workshop will concentrate on how to enhance student learning using handheld technology in an algebra course starting with course design and development, continuing through course presentation and ending with student evaluation and course assessment.
Friday 2:15pm–4:15pm	W17 Building Interactive Excel® Spreadsheets for the Classroom (TT) David T. Clydesdale, Sarah Stark	Back to Top
	This workshop is an introduction to the graphics and control features available in Microsoft Excel®. Participants will use features including scroll bars, drop-down menus, and check boxes to make interactive graphs. A working knowledge of Excel®, including formulas and scatter plots, is assumed. (This workshop will be repeated on Saturday.)
Friday 2:15pm–4:15pm	W18 Designing, Assigning and Assessing Projects in the Classroom (A, GE, IS) Cynthia A. Harris	Back to Top
	This workshop will present the construction and assessment of projects in the Liberal Arts Mathematics or Quantitative Literacy classroom. The workshop will also cover group projects: how to assign groups and how to assess group projects. There will be many opportunities for participant discussion and sharing.
Saturday 10:45am–12:45pm	W19 Adding Dimension to Two-Year College Saturday Mathematics (IS, MI) 10:45–12:45 Dennis C. Ebersole, Deborah A. Moore-Russo	Back to Top
	This hands-on presentation considers how students can develop an understanding of key concepts in mathematics before calculus through visualization. Activities will actively engage participants, showing how manipulatives can be used to implement Beyond Crossroads. Learn how to extend 1D concepts to 2D, 2D concepts to 3D.
Saturday 10:45am–12:45pm	W20 10 Helpful Hints & 10 Fatal Flaws: How to Get (& Not Get) NSF Funding (G) Elizabeth J. Teles, Mary Kay Abbey	Back to Top
	Problems and the creative ideas leading to their solution come at you every time you deal with students. Would you like funding to help you put these solutions to work in your department? This workshop will help your creative ideas become a reality.
Saturday 10:45am–12:45pm	W21 Building Interactive Excel® Spreadsheets for the Classroom (TT) David T. Clydesdale, Sarah Stark	Back to Top
	This workshop is an introduction to the graphics and control features available in Microsoft Excel®. Participants will use features including scroll bars, drop-down menus, and check boxes to make interactive graphs. A working knowledge of Excel®, including formulas and scatter plots, is assumed.
Saturday 1:15am–3:15pm	W22 Beyond Crossroads Electronic Resources— Where the Rubber Meets the Road (A, G, TT) David J. Graser, Norma M. Agras, Rebecca T. Hartzler, Margie Hobbs	Back to Top
	Electronic Resources are electronic media that enhance Beyond Crossroads. Preview these four products: Beyond Crossroads Live, Quantitative Literacy and Mathematics Across the Curriculum, Assessment, and the Beyond Crossroads Outreach Kit. Learn how they support implementation of our teaching and learning standards. Learn about future electronic resources.
Saturday 1:15am–3:15pm	W23 Alternative Algorithms: Not Just for Whole Numbers Anymore (D, TP) Virginia (Ginny) Keen	Back to Top
	The use of alternative algorithms need not be limited to whole number computation. Computation with fractions will be examined, considering alternative algorithms and discussing advantages and disadvantages of a variety of algorithms, particularly those involving division of fractions.
Saturday 1:15am–3:15pm	W24 Matrices and Linear Programming with Excel® (MI, TT) Florence Chambers, Louise (Toni) A. Parise	Back to Top
	This hands-on, computer workshop includes performing matrix operations with Excel®, and two methods of solving linear programming problems. Participants will learn how to perform the Simplex Method using matrix techniques in Excel® and learn how to use SOLVER® for linear programming problems. Previous knowledge of Excel® is not required.
Saturday 3:40am–5:40pm	W25 You Are Kidding, Math Self-Taught! (IS, TT) Ken Hurley, Penny Morris	Back to Top
	Discover math topics that can be self-taught by the students both in-class or online. Learn and then create a self-paced lesson. Come discover a new strategy and engage in active learning.
Saturday 3:40am–5:40pm	W26 The Mathematics of Florence (H) Anne Marie Mosher	Back to Top
	Certainly one of the nursery schools if not the cradle of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy, is a symphony of art, science, and math history. The genius of individuals like Brunelleschi, Galileo, Michelangelo, and Masaccio will be celebrated as a tour of the mathematical highlights of Florence is mapped.