They Played By the Fire and Under the Stars, the Content Was In the Cards and It Still Is!
Robert Baker, University of Alaska, Southeast-Ketchikan Campus, robert.baker@usa.alaska.edu
With a deck of cards as the carrier, and the game of poker as the thread, this workshop will weave through nearly every topic found in entry-level probability coruses. Constructively motivate set notation and theory, counting techniques, random variable, data collection and analysis, and game theory-in a student-friendly setting
pdf file of overheads & activities: poker or cribbage

Teaching Sampling Distributions and Central Limit Theorem Efficiently
John Climent, Cecil Community College, jcliment@cecil.cc.md.us
Comuter simulations are used in statistics to enhance student understanding and efficiently teach sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem. Minitab will be used to graphically and numerically illustrate these two concepts. Knowledge of Minitab is not necessary. Methodology can be adpated to other software.
pdf file of presentation

After 500 Years: A Significant New Look at the Quadratic Function
John Coburn, Illinois State Unviersity, jcoburn@stlcc.cc.mo.us
The borders of advanced mathematics are continually expanding both in the pure and applied branches. But there has not been a significant new development in pre-calculus mathematics for decades, perhaps centuries, until now. In a presentation sure to engage and intrigue, the presenter will offer a significant new look.
pdf file of session handouts: cover page, Migration1, Migration2, Migration3, Migration4, Migration5, Migration6, Migration7, Migration8, Migration9; pdf file of PowerPoint slides

Teaching Biostatistics in a Physician's Assistant Program
Janice Dykacz, Community College of Balitmore-Essex, jdykacz@ccbc.cc.md.us
Edwin Whiteford, Community College of Baltimore-Essex, ewhiteford@ccbc.cc.md.us
The Community College of Baltimore-Essex campus offers a Physician's Assistant selected-entry program. Currently, the presenters are teaching selected topics in Biostatistics to enable students to better read medical articles. They will present the first topics taught and discuss the program and types of studies.
pdf file of PowerPoint slides

Two-Week Review to Hurdle Developmental Mathematics
Roxann King, Prince George's Community College
Brenda Teal, Prince George's Community College
After collaboration with the public schools, Prince George's Community College began offering a two-week, twenty-four hour math review course in August 1996. The results give new hope for low-placing high school graudates.
pdf file of PowerPoint slides

Integrating Liberal Arts Math and Environmental Science
Greg Langkamp, Seattle Central Community College, glangk@sccd.ctc.edu
Joe Hull, Seattle Central Community College, jhull@sccd.ctc.edu
At Seattle Central Community College, the presenters integrate liberal arts mathematics and environmental science through a series of hands-on student exercises. Learn about their exercise on the fractal nature of earthquakes, their integrated coruse, and QELP-the Quantitative Environemental Learning Project.
pdf file of handouts

Integrating Mathematics and Algebra-Based Physics
Cyrus McCarter, Wake Technical Community College, wcmccart@gwmail.wake.tec.nc.us
Robert Kimball, Wake Technical Community College, rkimball@gwmail.wake.tec.nc.us
Activites developed with NSF funds and written for Intermediate Algebra through Precalculus use the elicit-confront-resolve-assess format, and provide physics context for the mathematics and just-in-time mathematics for physics.
PowerPoint slides (1 MB)

The Trials and Tribulations of an Online Arithemtic Course
Jim Matovina, Community College of Southern Nevada, matovina@ccsn.nevada.edu
The presenter will discuss the planning, building, implementation, and anaylsis of an on-line, distance eduction, basic arithemetic course offered at the Commnity College of Southern Nevada. Particpants will be given the opportunity to see the actual course and possibly converse with some to its students.
http://www.ccsn.nevada.edu/math/matovina/amatyc

Foundation/Developmental Mathematics Network and Sharing
Jeff Morford, Henry Ford Community College, jmorford@hfcc.net
In this informal discussion-table-format session participants will be given an opportunity to talk with other practitioners in such topics as curricular change, cooperative/collaborative learning, assessment and technology.
pdf file of session notes

Exploratory Data Analysis - Statistical Exploration and Discovery
Brian Smith, McGill University
This workshop investigates techniques of Exploratory Data Analysis, including numerical and graphical summaries. Topics covered include multiple representations of data using visual displays and summary statistics. The software package Fathom will be used to illustrate the statistical concepts.
pdf file of handouts

Web Wonders: Helping Students Succeed in College Algebra
Mark Turner, Cuesta College, mturner@cuesta.org
A web-based tutorial for using the TI-83 within a college algebra or precalculus course will be introduced as an effective means of increasing student success. The presentation will include discussion of the relevant issues, a demonstration of the tutorial, and summary of student comments.
pdf file of links

A Top Down Look at the Banach Tarski Paradox
Lenard Wapner, El Camino College, lwapner@elcamino.cc.ca.us
The Banach-Tarski Theorem is arguably the most stunning result of theoretical mathematics. Casually put, a pea may be decomposed into finitely many peices and rearranged to form a ball the size of the sun. Hypertext (MS Word, PowerPoint) helps make the proof accessible from an elementary viewpoint.
Introduction, Reading List, PowerPoint slides (365 K)