Maryland Mathematics Institute -- Summer 2012
The Department of Mathematics at the College Park campus of
the University of Maryland (UMD) is pleased to announce the
third Maryland Mathematics Institute (MMI), a week-long
summer course for secondary school mathematics teachers.
The MMI will consist of presentations and discussions that
are designed to be stimulating,
accessible and useful for teaching.
Basic information:
- Dates:
Monday, June 18 through Friday, June 22, 2012 (tentative, may change
if public school years are extended)
- Times:
8:30am- 3:30pm, lunch to be provided by the University
- Location:
Physics 1201 on the College Park campus of UMD
- Credits:
2 continuing professional development (CPD)
credits, MSDE-certified
- SUPPORT STIPEND:
$200 for full participation in the week's activity
- Also provided without charge:
the credit-certificate fee; lunch;
parking; and the price of the Geometer's Sketchpad and
Fathom software packages for participants who do not
have them.
- Contact:
Professor Denny Gulick
(dng@math.umd.edu 301 405 5157)
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TO REGISTER FOR THE MMI:
Mail in the registration form (click
HERE for the form and address).
Around May 1, we expect to review applications for the MMI
and select the 2012 MMI class,
primarily on the basis of order of receipt of application,
courses being taught,
and diversity of participation
by school and county.
Day and Half-Day Interactive Presentations by University of Maryland
Faculty:
- Dr. M. Michael Boyle:
Struggles of the Past: How New types of
Numbers Emerged Historically
- Dr. Denny Gulick: Encounters with Chaos
- Dr. Frances Gulick: Explorations with Geometer's Sketchpad
- Dr. Frances Gulick: Exploring Statistics with Fathom
- Dr. John Millson: The Space of Polygons in the Plane
- Dr. Lawrence Washington: Introduction to Cryptography, or How to Share
- Dr. Justin Wyss-Gallifent: Tile Games and the Underlying
Mathematics
There will also be
discussions on in-school topics of interest to teachers.
We intend to get
the software packages Geometer's Sketchpad and Fathom onto
the personal computers of teachers who do
not have the software, for effective
hands-on instruction at the MMI and use in the future.
Prerequisites.
The segments will be most useful for teachers with a
basic foundation in algebra, and in some cases as indicated by the
title geometry or probability/statistics.
We also offer
5-week summer
courses for high school teachers ,
beginning the week after the MMI, which are more appropriate for
training in the basic foundations. In
Summer
2012, we aim to offer MATH 484 (Geometry for High School Teachers)
and MATH486 (Calculus for High School Teachers), provided there is
sufficient interest (typically about 10 students are needed).
Our Vision for the Maryland Mathematics Institute:
The Mathematics
Department envisions the MMI as an annual one-week, two-credit summer
course featuring several College Park faculty. The aim is to provide high
school mathematics teachers with interesting and enjoyable mathematics
relevant to teaching high school students, and to communicate to the
teachers the pleasure and relevance
of mathematics. The topics entailed in the MMI will
go beyond the standard courses preparatory for teaching high school
mathematics.
The Department also aims to build communication between College Park
faculty (primarily from the Mathematics Department but also from
Mathematics Education) and high school teachers,
and to provide high school mathematics teachers a setting
to learn from each other and enhance their own community.
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