AMATYC Networks and Committees

The purpose of the Developmental Mathematics ANet is to improve the quality of developmental mathematics programs in colleges by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas. In addition, the Developmental Mathematics ANet strives to:

• Provide opportunities for professional development on proven practice for developmental mathematics faculty;
• Share best practices for curriculum and instruction that promote successful matriculation into gateway college mathematics courses and other courses requiring quantitative tools;
• Increase involvement with national policy-making boards on issues related to college-readiness;
• Strengthen connections with other professional organizations regarding concerns of developmental mathematics; and,          
• Communicate the issues of developmental mathematics reform and the consequences of recent state-required mandates.

Chair: Kim Granger ( Kim.Granger@amatyc.org)

The Division/Department Leadership ANet focuses on the needs of mathematics department leadership and strives to:  

• Provide professional development opportunities for mathematics department leaders (e.g. coordinators, chairs, etc.);
• Increase communication within the ANet's constituency to enhance professional networking and support systems for mathematics department leaders; and,
• Disseminate and discuss information on issues that impact college mathematics department leaders, particularly when the information applies to mathematics in the first two years of college.

Chair: Chris Ward ( Chris.Ward@amatyc.org)

The purpose of the Equity ANet is to increase mathematics achievement for diverse learners. The Equity ANet strives to:

• Educate about equitable teaching and learning practices and foster a dialogue on how to improve them;    
• Provide opportunities to learn about and discuss structural inequality and organizational change;
• Increase awareness about issues of diversity within AMATYC membership and leadership;
• Work collaboratively with Project ACCCESS and other AMATYC groups, ANets and the AMATYC membership in general to promote equity; and,
• Create a community of support and inquiry to sustain the challenging work of dismantling structural inequities.

Chair: Benjamin Aschenbrenner ( Benjamin.Aschenbrenner@amatyc.org)

The Innovative Teaching and Learning ANet provides a forum for creating, sharing, and implementing new ideas to increase the quality of instruction in teaching and learning. The Innovative Teaching and Learning ANet strives to:

• Identify and examine issues that pertain to effective teaching and learning, distance learning and technology in education as they relate to mathematics students, faculty, programs and curricula in the first two years of college;
• Facilitate sharing and networking on crucial issues, ideas, and current practices in traditional, hybrid, distance and active learning;    
• Develop criteria for evaluating data, software, and internet resources;
• Share demonstrably effective ways to implement these resources;
• Maintain and update position papers on effective teaching and learning; and,
• Support various curriculum initiatives endorsed, supported, or published by AMATYC.

Chair:  Jennifer Ackerman ( jackerman0006@gmail.com)

The International Mathematics ANet promotes global awareness among the AMATYC community and strives to:

• Provide information on effective practices and research studies regarding the teaching and learning of mathematics from around the world;
• Create professional development opportunities for the instruction of mathematics and statistics in a globalized context;
• Share current information about international education conferences and online webinars; and   
• Facilitate collaboration and professional development opportunities among mathematics educators, students, and organizations who are interested in study abroad or professional exchange programs, global internships, volunteering, and service learning.

Chair: Barbara Leitherer ( Barbara.Leitherer@amatyc.org)

The Mathematics and Its Applications for Careers ANet addresses the mathematics of career and technical education programs. The ANet focuses on both transfer-level and terminal math courses to meet the needs of math students in these areas by emphasizing applications and technical communication. The Mathematics and Its Applications for Careers ANet strives to:  

• Provide members with networking opportunities and support from colleagues;
• Provide the Organization's membership with applications they can use in their own math classrooms through presentations at conferences, including the AMATYC Annual Conference, and through webinars;
• Enable sharing information and course knowledge among technical math educators; and,
• Network with partners beyond the two-year college math community in order to increase the profile of, and improve student education in, 21st century career and technical math education.

Chair: Natalia Postrigan ( Natalia.Postrigan@amatyc.org)

The Mathematics Intensive ANet provides opportunities for professional development to instructors who teach many of the upper-level courses at two-year colleges.  The courses fit into three major categories: Pre-STEM, post developmental courses of college algebra, precalculus, and trigonometry; STEM courses of calculus, differential, and linear algebra; advanced courses like discrete mathematics and introduction to higher mathematics/proof.  The Mathematics Intensive ANet strives to:

• Examine best practices regarding teaching strategies in these courses;
• Examine the current curriculum and discuss possible changes to best meet the needs of current students;   
• Study evolving instructional technology and how it can be implemented effectively in these courses;
• Encourage continual communication among members of the ANET;
• Encourage study and scholarship of mathematical topics typically beyond those taught at two-year colleges; and,   
• Encourage the development of mathematically rich enrichment activities that can be used across the curriculum.  

Chair: Robert (Bob) Cappetta ( Bob.Cappetta@amatyc.org)

The purpose of the Mathematics Pathways ANet is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, sharing of resources, and discussion of issues of interest involving mathematics pathways in public, primarily associate-degree granting colleges. The Mathematics Pathways ANet strives to:

• Provide professional development opportunities on promising and varied mathematics pathways;
• Share and examine varied mathematics pathways models and courses;
• Share and discuss research related to curricular mathematics pathways models that promote student success;  
• Explore and develop mathematics pathways for students in occupational and technical programs;
• Share and discuss processes that allow students to switch from one mathematics pathway to another;
• Encourage continual communication among members of the Mathematics Pathways ANet; and,
• Maintain and update position statements on issues related to mathematics pathways.

Chair: Meghan Carlson ( meghan.carlson@amatyc.org)

The focus of the Placement and Assessment ANet is to serve as a resource for the AMATYC membership on issues related to placement, assessment of student outcomes, and assessment of mathematical programs. The Placement and Assessment ANet strives to:

• Promote opportunities for educators to gain a deep understanding of best practices in placement and assessment implemented as per the standards recommended by AMATYC;
• Encourage mathematics educators in conducting professional development focused on building familiarity and understanding of the core standards of placement and assessment practices by examining strategies, models and contexts that support their implementation;
• Maintain and update position statements on issues related to assessment and placement; and,
• Lead in the development of evidence-based mathematics placement and assessment instruments.

Chair: Christine Mirbaha ( Christine.Mirbaha@amatyc.org)

AMATYC's academic network (ANet) for Quantitative Reasoning (QR) provides a forum for the analysis, discussion, and support of courses within the QR pathway. The ANet encourages sessions about QR at the annual conference and articles about QR in the MathAMATYC Educator and the AMATYC News
. In addition, the Quantitative Reasoning ANet will:

• Provide support for faculty to develop QR courses
• Promote teaching and assessment practices consistent with AMATYC's Crossroads, Beyond Crossroads, IMPACT, and position statements
• Identify, develop, and share relevant real-world contexts, instructional activities, and student projects for QR and other mathematics courses for a general audience
• Discuss issues related to the transferability, corequisites, student placement, student support, and delivery formats in such courses
• Help faculty overcome obstacles to implementing QR, including providing ways to assist faculty in educating student advisors, program coordinators, and administrators at the institutional level as well as other stakeholders beyond the institution

Chair: Greg Foley ( greg.foley@amatyc.org)

The purpose of the Research and Mentoring Experiences for Students and Faculty ANet is to promote high quality math research and math research mentoring and collaborations on two-year college campuses. The Research and Mentoring Experiences for Students and Faculty ANet strives to:

• Promote the development of undergraduate research in mathematics at two-year colleges.
• Advocate for math research and mentoring opportunities in mathematics to be accessible to and meaningful for all two-year college students and faculty.
• Promote the formation of math research communities, collaborations, and partnerships between two-year colleges, four-year colleges and universities, and professional associations such as AMATYC, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the National Doctoral Alliance.

Chair: Dana Clahane ( dclahane@fullcoll.edu)

The purpose of the Research in Mathematics Education for Two-Year Colleges ANet is to encourage quality research in mathematics education at two-year colleges. The Research in Mathematics Education for Two-Year Colleges ANet strives to:   

• Provide organizational support and mentoring for faculty researchers and institutions conducting research in mathematics education and its application in promoting effective teaching strategies;  
• Provide support for the dissemination of findings and results emerging from research conducted at two-year colleges; and,  
• Encourage and support faculty researchers in developing research projects in mathematics education in the first two years of college and obtaining funding to undertake the research.

Chair: Frank Marfai (Frank.Marfai@amatyc.org)

The role of the Statistics and Data Science ANet is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, the sharing of resources and the discussion of issues of interest to the Statistics and Data Science community. The Statistics and Data Science ANet strives to:

• Provide professional development and support for the teaching and learning of statistics and data science;
• Provide resources for faculty interested in developing statistics and data science programs and courses;   
• Foster the use of the GAISE guidelines in the first two years of college; and,
• Serve as a liaison with four-year college faculty, other mathematical organizations and professional statistics organizations in order to share resources.

Chairs: Rebecca Wong ( Rebecca.Wong@amatyc.org)

The AMATYC Teacher Preparation ANet strives to:

• Examine implications of pre K12 mathematical and professional standards on the teacher preparation curriculum and courses taught during the first two years of college;   
• Facilitate sharing of curricular resources, best practices, and innovative ideas used in mathematics courses for prospective pre K-6 teachers; and,
• Provide support and professional development to new and veteran mathematics faculty involved in the education of pre K-6 teachers of mathematics.

Chair: Xianwei Van Harpen (xianwei.vanharpen@amatyc.org)

This committee will focus on promoting the AMATYC standards as well as maintaining the digital products to support those standards.  The goals of this committee are

• To establish and implement a marketing campaign including but not limited to a series of regularized activities to promote widespread implementation of the standards in the first two years of college mathematics,
• To establish and implement the web presence for the standards,
• To submit articles centered on the standards for the AMATYC News and the Math AMATYC Educator at least once a year,
• To establish and implement a process of regular review of the standards in the same manner as the position statements are reviewed regularly,
• To ensure consistency among the standards and other AMATYC documents,
• Promote the standards beyond AMATYC members. The membership of the committee is open to the AMATYC community.

Chair: Mark Earley ( mearley3@cscc.edu)