Conference Presentations List of Kirthi Premadasa

Conference Presentations (Last six years only)

· Kirthi Premadasa (2019). Effect of Mindset Interventions on College Mathematics Presentation at the Mathematical Association of America’s WI section annual meeting, Kenosha, WI.

· Tharanga Wijetunge & Kirthi Premadasa. (2018). How do students select questions in a math exam? Paper Presented at the American Mathematical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Geetha Samaranayake, Rajee Amarasinghe & Kyam Paneru. (2018). Does collaboration help create change in college teachers? Paper presented at the American Mathematical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2017). Intriguing integrals which arise out of "impossible" ones. Paper presented at Wisconsin Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges conference, Janesville, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Kavita Bhatia & Geetha Samaranayake. (2017). A College Lesson Study Experience in Mathematics. Paper presented at Lily conference, Anaheim, CA.

· Geetha Samaranayake, Rajee Amarasinghe & Kirthi Premadasa. (2017). Effects of Lesson Study on College Faculty & School Teachers Paper presented at Lily conference, Anaheim, CA.

· Kavita Bhatia & Kirthi Premadasa. (2017). Creating New Horizons for Developmental Mathematics through Math Literacy & Algebra Paper presented at Lily conference, Anaheim, CA.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2016). Effect of inverted classrooms on Polya's steps on mathematical problem-solving Paper presented at Conference of International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and learning. Los Angeles, CA.

· Tharanga Wijetunge & Kirthi Premadasa. (2016). Does process oriented student feedback, help college math achievement? Paper presented at SoTL commons conference, Savannah, GA.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Kavita Bhatia & Tharanga Wijetunge. (2015). The dreaded word problem: What do students remember? Paper presented at AMS/MAA Joint Sessions, San Antonio, TX.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2015). Calculus problem solving: can a flipped classroom help? Paper presented at the SOTL commons conference, Savannah, GA.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2015). Bring Your Own Device: Emerging Virtual Clicker Options and Pedagogy. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America's Wisconsin Chapter, Ripon, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Ayar Musa, and Mike Jacobs. (2014). Twitter Back- channeling to enhance learning and engagement: A multi-disciplinary study Paper presented at SoTL commons conference, Savannah 2014.

· Kirthi Premadasa & Kavita Bhatia. (2014). A research-based study on teaching and learning "Related Rates" Paper presented at annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America's Wisconsin Chapter, Whitewater, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2014). Using Flipped Classrooms to Enhance Performance in a Calculus II Classroom Paper presented at UW Colleges Colloquium, Fond Du Lac, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2014). D2L and math formulae; Making friends Paper presented at annual BrightSpace conference, Waukesha, WI.

· Kavita Bhatia, Ibrahim Saleh, and Kirthi Premadasa. (2013). Concept maps for Calculus Concepts. Paper presented at ISSOTL conference, Savannah, GA.

· Kirthi Premadasa & Kavita Bhatia. (2013). What's the matter with College Algebra? Paper presented at the conference of Wisconsin Mathematical Association for Two Year Colleges, Waukesha, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi & Gregory Bard. (2013). Emerging technologies in Mathematics instructions participated in a Panel at the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America's Wisconsin Chapter, April 2013.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Kavita Bhatia, Clare Hemenway & Paul Martin. (2013). All in a Class Period: Using Lesson Study to Realize Learning Goals Paper presented at OPID conference, Madison, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa and Kavita Bhatia. (2013). Class, take your cell phones out: using cell phones for classroom voting Paper presented at SoTL Commons conference, Savannah, GA.

· Kirthi Premadasa & Kavita Bhatia. (2013). Algebra in real life: what do students choose? Paper presented at Joint Mathematics Meeting of AMS/MAA, San Diego, CA.

· Kavita Bhatia and Kirthi Premadasa. (2012). Use of Think Alouds and Lesson Study to resolve Calculus bottlenecks Paper presented at Conference of International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and learning, Ont.

· Kavita Bhatia and Kirthi Premadasa. (2012). Calculus Blues: Unlocking mysteries in related rates. Paper presented at SoTL Commons conference, Savannah, GA.

· Kavita Bhatia, Kirthi Premadasa, and Paul Martin. (2012). Use of Think Alouds and Lesson Study to Address Integral Calculus Bottlenecks. Paper presented at annual conference of the Mathematical Association of America's Wisconsin chapter, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2012). Making College Algebra real though modeling and peer collaboration Paper presented at 6th Annual Best Practices in STEM Teaching Conference, Baraboo, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2012). Creating a Twitter backchannel in the classroom for problem-solving Paper presented at annual meeting of the Wisconsin mathematical Association for Two-year College's conference, Wausau, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2012). A Learning Community in Algebra Connecting Student Classes Paper presented at UW Colleges Colloquium, Fox Valley, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2012). Cell Phone as a Learning Tool: Back-Channeling, Classroom Voting, Computing and Visualization Paper presented at UW Colleges Colloquium, Fox Valley, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Kavita Bhatia, Clare Hemenway and Paul Martin. (2011). Using College Lesson Study to introduce discovery and real-life problem-solving skills. Paper presented at Conference of International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and learning, Milwaukee, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa, Kavita Bhatia. (2011). Calculus bottlenecks. Can a Polya rubric help? Paper presented at Conference of International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and learning, Milwaukee, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2011). Search for a Cure: Student Preference for Style and Focus of Math Word Problems Paper presented at Conference of International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and learning, Milwaukee, WI.

· Kavita Bhatia and Premadasa Kirthi. (2011). Why can't they solve it? Paper presented at SoTL commons conference, Savannah, GA.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2011). The Dreaded Word Problem: search for a cure Poster presented at President's summit, Madison, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa. (2011). From where do these functions come? Paper presented at Mathematical Association of America's Wisconsin chapter meeting, Stout, WI.

· Kirthi Premadasa & Paul Martin. (2011). A Mathematical learning community with Excel Labs. Paper presented at annual meeting of the Wisconsin Mathematical Association of Two-year colleges, Fond Du Lac, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2010) A story time for Math. Paper presented at SoTL Commons, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA.

· Martin Paul, Kirthi Premadasa, Richard Shotwell and Thomas Eiden. (2010). Calculating optimal attic insulation levels in attic spaces. Paper presented at Better Buildings, Better Business Conference, Wisconsin Dells, WI.

· Martin Paul and Kirthi Premadasa. (2010). Effective use of Wikis in College Mathematics Classes. Paper presented at International Conference on Education, Training, and Informatics: ICETI 2010, Orlando Fl.

· Martin Paul, Kirthi Premadasa, Richard Shotwell and Thomas Eiden. (2010). Optimizing Attic Insulation levels. Invited poster at the Posters in the Rotunda, Madison, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2010). Wikis in Mathematics Dos and Don'ts. Paper presented at Mathematical Association of America (Wisconsin Chapter)'s annual meeting, Oshkosh, WI.

· Bhatia Kavita, Kirthi Premadasa. (2010). Using Think Alouds to remove Bottlenecks in Mathematics. Paper presented at annual meeting of Wisconsin Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Wausau, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2009). Multiple Credit Card Debt? Math can help Paper presented at annual meeting of Wisconsin Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Madison, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2009). How to give a Math D2L Quiz. Talk presented at Mathematics Department’s Teaching Seminar, Wisline, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2009). Teaching Calculus through real-world applications Paper presented at UW Colleges Colloquium, Fox Valley, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi and Geetha Samaranayake. (2009). Using Fallacies to correct common student mistakes Paper presented at MAA Wisconsin Chapter annual meeting, UW-La Crosse, WI.

· Evangelist Fe, G. Samaranayake, J. Lettlier and K. Premadasa. (2009) Lesson Study on the SARS Epidemic. Paper presented at MAA Wisconsin Chapter annual meeting, La Crosse, WI.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2009). Inspiring College Algebra students through lesson Study Paper presented International Lesson Study Conference, Chicago, IL.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2008). Mathematics Lesson Study as a tool to inspire college students. Paper presented at the conference of Wisconsin Mathematics Association for Two Year Colleges, Sheboygan, WI.

· R. Amarasinghe, K. Premadasa. (2008). Using Lesson Study to develop strategies to close the achievement gap and intervention Paper presented at Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT), Dallas, TX.

· Premadasa Kirthi. (2008). How to make the Epsilon-Delta definition fun. Paper presented at MAA Wisconsin Chapter annual meeting. WI, April 2008.

· Evangelist Fe, G. Samaranayake, J. Letellier and K. Premadasa. (2008). Lesson Study at the College Level: Just Do It. Paper presented at Lesson Study Conference, Chicago, IL.

· R. Amarasinghe, K. Premadasa. (2008). Encouraging teachers to conduct lesson studies: A Californian and an International Experience Paper presented at International Lesson Study Conference, Chicago, IL.