Kutztown University: 2002 SSHE-MA Conference

SCHEDULE

Friday, April 19, 2002

Registration..............3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Refreshments..............3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Exhibits..................3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions.......3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Banquet...................6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Featured Speaker..........8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Social....................9:30 pm - 11:00 pm

Saturday, April 20, 2002

Executive Board Meeting...8:00 am - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast.....9:00 am - 10:00 am
Registration..............9:00 am - 11:00 am
Exhibits..................9:00 am - 11:30 am
Concurrent Sessions.......9:30 am - 11:30 am
Featured Speaker.........12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch & Business Meeting..1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Exhibits..................2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions.......2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

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FRIDAY, APRIL 19

3:00 - 6:00 pm	REGISTRATION	SUB 218
3:00 - 6:00 pm	REFRESHMENTS	SUB 223
3:00 - 6:00 pm	EXHIBITS	SUB 223

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
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STARTING AT 3:30 PM
3:30 - 3:50 pm	Math Lends a Hand to Little League Baseball Fran Vasko, Kutztown University	LY 228
3:30 - 4:10 pm	Using Data to Teach Calculus Concepts Paul Ache, Kutztown University	LY 203
3:30 - 4:10 pm	Assessment of General Education Mathematics James Fenwick, Millersville University	LY 207

STARTING AT 4:00 PM
4:00 - 4:20 pm	Incorporating the PSSA into Math Ed Content Courses Elizabeth Mauch, Bloomsburg University	LY 226
4:00 - 4:20 pm	Limit and Derivative of a Product – Without the “Tricks” Joseph Moser, West Chester University	LY 212
4:00 - 4:40 pm	The Bloomsburg Experiment Lisa Lister & John Polhill, Bloomsburg University	RL 29
4:00 - 4:40 pm	Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics with Mathematica Tim McDevitt, Millersville University	RL 26
4:00 - 5:00 pm	My Math Lab Lee Monroe, Addison Wesley	RL 6

STARTING AT 4:30 PM
4:30 - 4:50 pm	Incorporating a 5th Grade Arithmetic Test into the Math Content Course Paul Hartung, Bloomsburg University	LY 226
4:30 - 4:50 pm	Is Kutztown University a “Party School”? Lyn Phy, Kutztown University	LY 203
4:30 - 6:00 pm	NSF CETP-PA Secondary Mathematics Workgroup Marc Sylvester, Edinboro University	SUB 312

STARTING AT 5:00 PM
5:00 - 5:20 pm	Art in Perspective Steve Gendler & Jim Rose, Clarion University	RL 6
5:00 - 5:20 pm	A Radical Expression for cos 2pi/13 and cos 2pi/19 Scott Mcclintock, West Chester University	LY 226
5:00 - 5:40 pm	Q_n and L_n Joseph Moser, West Chester University	LY 212
5:00 - 5:40 pm	The History of the Mathematics Department at IUP Gary Stoudt, Indiana University	RL 29
5:00 - 6:00 pm	Alternative Mathematics Placement Tools: PSSA, Accuplacer, SAT, etc. Carol Rehn, Lock Haven University, & David Henriques, Shippensburg University	LY 207

STARTING AT 5:30 PM
5:30 - 5:50 pm	An Algorithm for Integration by Substitution Amadou Guisse, Edinboro University	LY 225
5:30 - 5:50 pm	Numerical Estimations of a Queueing Network Daniel Juncos, West Chester University	LY 228

6:30 -7:30 pm	BANQUET	SUB 218
8:00 -9:00 pm	FEATURED SPEAKER William Dunham Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics Muhlenberg College “The Euclid–Euler Theorem”	SUB 183
9:30 - 11:00 pm	SOCIAL Hosted by KU President David E. McFarland Co-Sponsored by Brroks/Cole & Duxbury Thomson Learning & Pres. McFarland	Weisenberger Alumni Center

SATURDAY, APRIL 20

8:00 - 9:00 am	EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING	South Dining Hall
9:00 -10:00 am	CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST	SUB 218
9:00 - 11:00 am	REGISTRATION	SUB 218
9:00 -11:30 am	EXHIBITS	SUB 223

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
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STARTING AT 9:30 AM
9:30 - 9:50 am	Home Team Advantage: Fact or Fiction Doug Frank, Indiana University	LY 228
9:30 - 10:00 am	Spouting Off About Fountains (MCM Entry) Megan Holben, Bloomsburg University	RL 29
9:30 - 10:10 am	Asymptotics of Solutions to a Non-linear Differential Equation Youmin Lu, Bloomsburg University	LY 225
9:30 - 10:30 am	The Trouble with Being a Department Chair Bill Bateman, Kutztown University	SUB 323
9:30 - 10:30 am	Preparing Mathematical Animations for the Web with Maple 6 Earl Packard, Kutztown University	LY 226

STARTING AT 10:00 AM
10:00 - 10:30 am	The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind (MCM Entry) Nick Early & Brigid Mooney, Indiana University	RL 29
10:00 - 10:40 am	Randomness and Its Role in Modern Physics Reza Noubary, Bloomsburg University	LY 203
10:00 - 10:40 am	By George, Let’s Teach Some Fuzzy Math! Tom Pirnot, Kutztown University	LY 228

STARTING AT 10:30 AM
10:30 - 11:00 am	Cleaning up for Scrub Lizards (ICM Entry) Jordan Dimov, Pete Gramp, & Cathy Paszint, Clarion University	RL 29
10:30 - 11:10 am	Critical Cliques John Lattanzio, Indiana University	LY 225
10:30 - 11:30 am	Impulse Gauss Curvatures Howard Iseri, Mansfield University	RL 26
10:30 - 11:30 am	The Past, Present and Future of Mathematical Computing: The Waterloo Maple Experience Tom Lee, Waterloo Maple, Inc.	RL 6

STARTING AT 11:00 AM
11:00 - 11:20 am	Infimum Principles Andrzej Szymanski, Slippery Rock University	LY 226
11:00 - 11:30 am	I‘m Leaving on an Overbooked Jet Plane (MCM Entry) Jen Bergman & Doug Hogan, Juniata College	RL 29

12:00 -1:00 pm	FEATURED SPEAKER Gary Gordon Professor of Mathematics Lafayette College “Gears that Turn and Archimedean Solids”	SUB 183
1:00 - 2:00 pm	LUNCHEON & BUSINESS MEETING	SUB 218
2:00 - 3:00 pm	EXHIBITS	SUB 223

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
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STARTING AT 2:30 PM
2:30 - 2:50 pm	Linearization of The Lattice of Partitions of n Michael Detlefsen, Slippery Rock University	LY 225
2:30 - 2:50 pm	Optimal Networks Have Maximum Toughness Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University	RL 29
2:30 - 2:50 pm	A Primer on Digit Product Sequences Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University	RL 26