M
athematics Education Seminar
Speaker: Robert Mayes
Place: Taylor Education Building Room 236
Time: 3-4pm
Title: "Effects of Curricular Change in a Freshman College Applied Algebra Course"
Additional Information: Robert Mayes is a Professor of Mathematics Education and Director of the Institute for Mathematics Learning at West Virginia University
Speaker: Tamara Moore
Place: Taylor Education Building Room 122
Time: 9:30-10:30am
Title: "Problem Solving and Teamwork: Engagement in Real World Mathematics Problems"
Additional Information: Presenter will meet with graduate students from 10:30-11:30am.
Speaker: Gerry Swan
Place: Dickey Hall Room 109
Time: 3-4pm
Title: TBA
Additional Information: Gerry Swan is Program Manager for the University of Kentucky Teaching & Academic Support Center.
Speaker: Maria Herendira Tello Garcia
Place: Taylor Education Building Room 236
Time: 2-3pm
Title: "Are Elementary Teachers Ready to Teach Mathematics in the Information Age?"
Additional Information: Presenter will meet with graduate students on Tuesday February 21, 2006 from 10-11am in Taylor Education Building Room 245.
Speaker: Margaret Mohr
Place: Taylor Education Building Room 122
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Topic: "Assessment of Preservice Teachers' Mathematics Knowledge for Middle Grades Teaching"
Additional Information: Presenter will meet with graduate students from 1:30-2:30pm in the same room.
Title: "Publishing & Presenting in Academia"
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Place: Taylor Education Building Room 122
Additional Information: Panel discussion
Speaker: Ron Atwood
Place: Dickey Hall Room 127
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Topic: Conceptual understanding/ conceptual change in science, with a special interest in non-scientific conceptions that teachers hold.
Additional Information: Ronald Atwood is a Professor of Science Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction.
Speaker: Holly Anthony
Place: CANCELLED
Time: CANCELLED
Title: "The Bird Problem: Exemplifying Teachers' Instructional Practices With Contextual Problems"
Additional Information: Holly Anthony is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at Tennessee Technological University.