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Thursday Opening Session
21st Century Math Education: Promoting Success Among
All Students
Thursday, November 20, 3:00 pm
International Ballroom
Freeman Hrabowski
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| Freeman Hrabowski joins us in the opening session
of our 34th conference to discuss the huge changes technology
and demographics have brought as we strive to educate the
next generations in mathematics of the 21st century. He asks
questions that we continue to wrestle with: What knowledge
base do students need today? What skills must they possess
to succeed in their lives in this century? What strategies
can we use to better teach them? Hrabowski earned a degree
in mathematics at age nineteen from the Hampton Institute,
and completed an M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Higher
Education Administration/Statistics at twenty-four from the
University of Illinois. We might perceive him as one of those
brilliant students we all love to have in our classes who
never understands how difficult that same achievement is for
many of our students. We would be wrong. Freeman has continued
his research in mathematics and science education. He has
served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore
County, since May 1992, where he is credited with increasing
the success of its students in the sciences. He serves as
a consultant on several corporate and civic boards where many
are able to share in his wisdom in a national arena. |
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Saturday Awards Breakfast Session
Physics is Phun
Saturday, November 22, 8:30-10:00 am
International Ballroom
David Wright
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| What entertainment and education will we enjoy
when the title of David’s talk is so punny? Let’s check out
what a bed of nails, balls of fire, and a leaf blower all
have to do with mathematics. Come and see how the mathematics
behind physics is revealed with his eye-popping, magical demonstrations.
Be prepared to participate! Maybe he’ll even demonstrate a
physics olympics activity. We’d better ask him what that is
all about. Wright received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees
in physics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in Physics
from Virginia Tech. Since then Tidewater Community College
in Virginia has continued to use his talents as a professor
in physics and astronomy. David Wright has appeared on Live
with Regis and Kathy Lee and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
He is Dr. D on the NASA Science Files TV series. He has written
educational books for Busch Gardens in Williamsburg and in
Tampa and he does physics demonstration shows regularly at
those parks. He’s someone we can cheer for as far as science
education goes. |
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