Past MathFest Meetings

SIGMAA TAHSM meets during the annual summer MathFest meetings which are sponsored by MAA.  Since many of our members are high school teachers who often cannot attend the winter Joint Meetings, we host sessions and our annual business meetings in August.

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MathFest 2025 in Sacramento, California:  Business meeting used to gather ideas to reinvigorate TAHSM, collecting suggestions for how we can better serve our membership, and to solicit self-nominations to serve as officers for elections in the fall 2025.  Business meeting notes here.

MathFest 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   CANCELLED.

MathFest 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio: Business Meeting, Reception, 2018 Sliffe Award Winner Recognition, and Invited Speaker David Bressoud, “Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas” https://www.macalester.edu/%7Ebressoud/talks/2019/TAHSM-history.pdf.

MathFest 2018 in Denver, Colorado: Workshop, “Meeting the Challenge of Introducing Senior High School Students to Contemporary Mathematics,” and Contributed Paper Session, “Priming the Calculus Pump: Fresh Approaches to Teaching First-Year Calculus”

“Ximera and Calculus Coordination” by James M. Talamo and Nela Lakos, https://ximera.osu.edu

“Calculus – Twice Flipped” by Ann Harmon (paper based on talk: https://www.byui.edu/Documents/instructional_development/Perspective/2018%20Winter/AnnMarie%20Harmon_Calculus%20Twice%20Flipped.pdf)

“Re-envisioning the Calculus Sequence” by Alex McAllister, http://colleges.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ReenvisioningTheCalculusSequence-Mathfest2018.pdf

“Row Integration by Parts” by John Rock, https://www.cpp.edu/~jarock/RIP%20Examples.pdf

MathFest 2017 in Chicago, Illinois: Business Meeting and Reception. Also recognition of the 2016 Edith May Sliffe Award winners.

MathFest 2016 in Columbus, Ohio: Business Meeting and Reception

At MathFest 2011 in Lexington, Kentucky , we had a contributed paper session entitled Beautiful Lessons Found on the Scenic Route. Several of the speakers provided PPTs for use to save.  

"Linear Explorations" by Dan Teague

"Using Explorations to Discover Derivatives" by Susan Schwartz Wildstrom

"Outdoors with Math in the National Parks" by Kristi Hoffman

"Calculus Favorite: Stirling's Approximation Approximately" by Robert Sachs

"Proofs by Mathematical Induction for High School Students" by Susan Schwartz Wildstrom

SIGMAA TAHSM Business Meeting Sacramento, CA … 8 August 2025 

 What do our members need? How should we be serving our membership? 

o Activities at sectional meetings would be helpful — it’s uncommon for teachers to get funding for MathFest.  Would be a lot less travel, less expensive.  Talk to ProjectNeXT-ers

 o Finding ways to support high school mathematics research.  Example: Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo at Euler Circle.  It would be good to have resources for college faculty who want to do that kind of mentoring, or high school teachers want to recommend their students for that kind of mentoring.  Credentialing between high school and university instructors is a barrier to bridging the gap. Panel to discuss it might be useful even if we’re not the policymakers.  Financial realities of high schoolers taking college classes

 o AP Precalculus o LaTeX training  Research is an increasingly LaTeX-y landscape, but there’s a lot of aversion.  Overleaf! 

o Taking a college course and making it work for high school  Students need to be self-motivated and organized, but they’re not college students, so teachers need to be sensitive to the kind of structure high schoolers need. Contact time is vastly different. Some adaptation is necessary. How have other people been doing it? 

o Do we have enough people from the different sections to make this work? As in, would we be able to get enough at the same place at the same time?  How can we accomplish some of these things? o It used to be, we go to MathFest and oAer speakers. But now... what? 

o Could be things like section meetings, online meetings. o Building a library of videos and other resources. 

o Could be folded in with Zoom discussions/workshops. Very easy to host/record them.  Doing it monthly might be a bit too much, but could be say, once or twice a semester. Bigger undertaking but less often.  Our value-add is the community of people who want to talk about this. Anybody can look things up online, but having it feel like an *event* would be great.  Maybe something like 20 minute presentation on a particular topic, and then followed by just as much if not more discussion.  SIGMAA membership doesn’t come with AMC high school membership. If the MAA wants to build its high school membership, this really would be a good way to get people involved …  Can we reach people who aren’t members?  AMC could be a way to get the word out and show that we do care about high school teachers — MAA isn’t just for college faculty.

 o Panel on modeling 

o High school summer programs (like GHP) 

o Can we record things from MathFest?  No. But we can post slides.  

Leadership 

o Chair

o Chair Elect 

o Program Director 

o Secretary -Treasurer 

Need to revise charter