Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:45

1998 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore, MD, January 7-10, 1998
Meeting #930

• Thursday January 8, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on The Uses of History in the Teaching of Mathematics, I
  Organizers:
  Florence Fasanelli, Mathematical Association of America ffasanel@maa.org
  V. Frederick Rickey, Bowling Green State University
  Victor J. Katz, University of the District of Columbia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Introduction
  • 8:05 a.m.
    Great Mathematics in Great Britain.
    Timothy A. Sipka*, Alma College
    (930-01-1022)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Teaching Classical Mathematics from Original Sources in a Senior Seminar.
    Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
    (930-01-795)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Biographies of Women Mathematicians: History in a Mathematics Course .
    Larry Riddle*, Agnes Scott College
    (930-01-375)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    Newton's Arithmetica Universalis.
    Rebecca A Berg*, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland
    (930-01-689)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    History of Mathematics as a Problem-Solving Course.
    Susann M. Mathews*, Wright State Universtity
    (930-01-838)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Recurring Patterns in the Historical Development of Mathematical Knowledge: Implications for Pedagogy.
    Mary L Garner*, Emory University
    (930-01-828)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A mathematics education course on teaching algebra from an historical perspective.
    Christopher E. Barat*, Virginia State University
    (930-01-817)
  • 10:05 a.m.
    The Sumario Compendioso: The New World's First Mathematics Book.
    Shirley B. Gray, California State University, Los Angeles
    C. Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State University
    (930-01-727)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    A Historically-oriented course in Rational Thermodynamics.
    Stacy G. Langton*, University of San Diego
    (930-01-723)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Presenting Kepler's Second Law in Calculus 2 using Astronomia Nova.
    Michael Frank Siddoway*, Colorado College
    (930-01-984)
  • 11:05 a.m.
    Two multimedia presentations incorporating historical background for pedagogical emphasis.
    Patricia A. Clark*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Rebecca E. Hill, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (930-01-419)
  • 11:25 a.m.
    Every Course a History Course.
    Richard J Jardine*, U. S. Military Academy
    (930-01-852)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Justifying Mathematics in the American Curriculum: The Lessons of E. H. Moore's Pedagogical Program.
    David Lindsay Roberts*, Laurel, MD
    (930-01-466)
• Thursday January 8, 1998, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Session on The Uses of History in the Teaching of Mathematics, II
  Organizers:
  Florence Fasanelli, Mathematical Association of America
  V. Frederick Rickey, Bowling Green State University
  Victor J. Katz, University of the District of Columbia
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Viewing History Up Close: A Trip to a Rare Book Room.
    Mark P Sand*, Northwest Missouri State University
    (930-01-801)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Four old problems revisited.
    Radoslav M. Dimitri\'c*, University of California at Berkeley
    (930-01-478)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Olivier and Abel on series convergence: An episode from early 19th century analysis.
    Michael S Goar*, New Mexico State Univ.
    (930-01-981)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A historical approach to the teaching of introductory analysis.
    Saul Stahl*, University of Kansas
    (930-01-408)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Historically Based Discovery Exercises.
    Robert G Stein*, CSU San Bernardino
    (930-01-830)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Volumes of Solids of Revolution: A Historical Approach.
    Elyn K Rykken*, Indiana University Northwest
    Jody M Sorensen, Grand Valley State University
    (930-01-786)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Barrow's Geometrical Methods for Finding Tangents.
    Andrew S. Leahy*, Knox College
    Nahyan A. G. Fancy, Knox College
    (930-01-663)