1st NE RUME Conference

November 11, 2017 – Montclair State UNiversity, NJ

1st Northeastern RUME Conference

Eileen Murray (local organizer), Juan Pablo Mejía Ramos, and Keith Weber organized the 1st Northeastern Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. The conference was held on November 11, 2017, in the beautiful Center for Environmental and Life Sciences at Montclair State University, NJ (9am-5:30pm).

Talks

  • William McGuffey (Columbia University) - Insights from college algebra students’ reinvention of limit at infinity.
  • Lidia Gonzalez (York College, CUNY) - Challenging the under-representation of women in mathematics: The York Tensor Scholars Program.
  • Behailu Mammo (Hofstra University) - NSF Noyce Program: Empowering Hofstra's in-service teachers. [slides]
  • Joshua Case & David Miller (West Virginia University) - Investigating how mathematics majors’ views of proof develop during an introductory proof course.
  • Tetyana Berezovski (St. Joseph's University) - Discovering Sporthematics as a ground for situatedness and context in mathematics education.
  • Virginia Thompson (York College, CUNY) - Promoting student engagement in online mathematics courses.
  • Matthew Charnley (Rutgers University) - Flipped classrooms for higher-level mathematics. [slides]
  • Amir Golnabi (Montclair State University) - Fetal body composition: A comprehensive project in calculus for life science students.
  • Melissa Haire & Fabiana Cardetti (University of Connecticut) - Using a students’ lens to inform research on mathematics learning support centers.
  • Robert Sachs (George Mason University) - Preliminary research plan for a complex themed transition course. [slides]
  • Joseph Olsen (Rutgers University) - Documenting instructors’ use of metaphor in advanced mathematics lectures.
  • Keith Gallagher (West Virginia University) - Students’ Uses of Visualization and Examples in Topology. [slides]
  • Kristen Amman & Christian Orr-Woods (Rutgers University) - Impact of mathematical philosophy on evaluation of student proving behavior.
  • Rani Satyam (Michigan State University) - Development of problem-solving aspects of proving in a transition to proof course.
  • Monica VanDieren (Robert Morris University) - Student’s transitional understanding of the cross product through a visualization activity. [slides]
  • Caroline Merighi (Tufts University) - Undergraduate students’ epistemologies of mathematics: An analysis of interviews with first-semester calculus students.
  • Tim McCarty & Vicky Sealey (West Virginia University) - How experts conceptualize differentials: The results of two studies.

Program