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Featured
Speakers
Gender Differences
and the Teaching of Mathematics
Thursday, November 20 1:45 pm
Abigail Norfleet James |
| Abigail Norfleet James is presently an adjunct
faculty member with Germanna Community College and is considered
an expert in gendered education. She received a Bachelor’s
of Science in 1970 from Duke University and a Ph.D. in Educational
Psychology in 2001 from the University of Virginia. James
conducts workshops in the U.S. and Canada concerning techniques
for teaching in gendered classrooms and is on the Advisory
Board of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
Her fifty-minute session will be very interesting as she discusses
the differences in female and male learning styles and their
neurocognitive gender differences, and demonstrates classroom
strategies to help students by countering a predominant belief
that women cannot do well in mathematics. |
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Mathematical
Patterns in Nature
Saturday, November 22 10:45 am
John A. Adam |
| John Adam will provide an entertaining fifty
minutes in his presentation about patterns that can be found
everywhere from rainbows to butterfly wings, from cloud formations
to spider webs. John became professor of mathematics and statistics
at Old Dominion University in Virginia in 1984. He has received
its highest teaching award and has held the title of university
professor since 1999. He received the state of Virginia’s
highest honor for faculty when he was presented the Outstanding
Faculty Award in 2007. John received both a B.S. and Ph.D.
from the University of London, the former in 1971 and the
latter in 1974. |
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Why We Must
Achieve the Dream
Friday, November 21 10:30 am
George R. Boggs
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| George Boggs will address current and future
national challenges that affect community colleges and the
nation with an emphasis on why the work being done to improve
student access, learning success, STEM education, and accountability
is so important. He presently serves as president of the American
Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The association
is the primary advocacy organization for the nation’s 1,202
associate degree granting institutions that are working with
more than 12 million students. Boggs was formerly a faculty
member at Butte College and then president of Palomar College,
both in California. He serves as a member of the Committee
on Undergraduate Science Education of the U.S. National Research
Council, and has served on the U.S. National Science Board
and several foundation panels, commissions, and committees. |
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The National
Mathematics Advisory Panel
Friday, November 21 1:00 pm
Larry Faulkner
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| Larry Faulkner is president of Houston Endowment,
a private foundation. He was part of the chemistry faculties
at Harvard, University of Illinois, and University of Texas,
and was president of the University of Texas at Austin from
1998 into 2006. He recently chaired the National Mathematics
Advisory Panel. Larry will present findings from the panel
about this huge research effort. Using 16,000 previous and
continuing studies and obtaining testimony from 63 organizations
and 41 experts, the Panel presented its recommendations to
the President and the Secretary of Education. He will share
those findings and recommendations with us. |
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