Brown Dot Resources Page
1999-2000 Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching)
Supported by the Mathematical Association of America and the Exxon Education Foundation

Contents

Who are the "Dots"?

• The 1999-2000 Fellows are the Brown Dots
• Gavin LaRose, one of the associate co-directors of Project NExT, maintains a searchable database with information about all the Project NExT Fellows.
• If you want to see us, look at the picture, taken at the Los Angeles MathFest.

Brown Dot Links

What's New?

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Organizations

• AMS: American Mathematical Society
• AP: Advanced Placement: This link has information about AP and an on-line application form to be an AP reader. (Mark Mills)
• MAA: Mathematical Association of America [MAA Basic Library List]
• NCTM: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• NSF: National Science Foundation
• Project NExT
• SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• YMN: Young Mathematicians Network

Professional Development

• Course Portfolios (Gavin LaRose)
• Introduction to Teaching Portfolios (John Polhill)

Teaching resources arranged by methodology/pedagogy

• Projects
  • Courseware developed by faculty at SLU: examples of projects for abstract algebra, calc II and III, cryptography and coding, and Taylor polynomials. (Anneke Bart)
  • Gavin LaRose's Calculus Projects: includes links to other sites as well.
• Technology in the Classroom
  • Animated Java Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using Shears (Matt Boelkins)
  • Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles (and lots of Java applets) (Wiebke Diestelkamp)
• History of Mathematics (K. Fogel)
• Miscellaneous
  • Quotes about Mathematics Education used in address by Jerry Uhl at the Joint Meetings in Washington, DC. (January, 2000)

Teaching resources arranged by course

• Any introductory course
  • Success in Mathematics: Ideas and strategies for being successful in a mathematics course. (Mark Mills)
• Calculus
  • Gavin LaRose's Calculus Projects: includes links to other sites as well.
  • Emerging Scholars Calculus Problems Database: A source for lots of problems, available in latex, dvi and postscript formats. (Randall Pruim)
• Differential Equations
  • Gavin LaRose's Differential Equations Resource page
• Discrete Mathematics
  • Pruim's Prolog Page: These materials were used in conjunction with the predicate logic part of a discrete math course. Includes a prolog interpreter that can be run over the WWW, an example from Monty Python, examples, exercises, ... (Randall Pruim)
• Geometry
  • Animated Java Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using Shears (Matt Boelkins)
  • Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles (and lots of Java applets) (Wiebke Diestelkamp)
• Logic (Randall Pruim)
• Bridge Courses
  • Animated Java Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using Shears (Matt Boelkins)
• Mathematics Teacher Education (Randall Pruim)
• Statistics (Randall Pruim)

Research resources

• XXX mathematics archives: a great web resource for preprints in all areas of mathematics. This front for the archive is at UC Davis. (Blake Mellor)

Meetings with Brown Dot Events

1999 Project NExT and MathFest in Providence

• Dates: July 28 -- August 2, 1999
• Abstracts of Project NExT workshops
• MathFest 1999 (July 31 -- August 2)

  | Home Page | Program |

• Local Arrangements, etc:

  | Brown University | Providence Hotels and Bed & Breakfasts | Brown's About Rhode Island page (Includes info about restaurants and stores in vicinity of Brown campus. See Thayer Street and College Hill.) | Lycos Providence City Guide | Providence Photos by Richard Benjamin |

Joint Meetings in Washington, DC

• Dates: January 18 (banquet) -- 22, 2000
• Joint Meetings Home Page

Project NExT/MathFest in Los Angeles

• Local/Travel information
  • UCLA
    • Map of housing
    • Campus map
  • Directions to UCLA from LAX provided by the MAA/AMS registration services
  • Info about LAX
    • terminals map
  • Some ground transportation options for getting from LAX to UCLA (Westwood)
  • Bus information: Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
    • Directions for taking bus from LAX to UCLA
    • Schedule of Bus 561 from LAX to UCLA
  • Travel info provided by AMS (for the Math Challenges Meeting the following week)
  • LA Convention Bureau Site
• Project NExT: beginning Tuesday, August 1, at 8pm.
  • Initial information about NExT in LA. (More details will come later.)
  • Abstracts of Project NExT Minicourses
  • Links from Strategies for Math for Liberal Arts
    • Bulletin Board Discussions from Elena Marchisotto's class
  • Links from Designing Computer Labs
    • MathWright
  • Links from Using the Web in a Course
    • Colm Mulcahy
    • AcroTeX (Thomas Price)
    • Vector Calculus stuff (Kris Green)
    • More stuff from Kris Green
    • WeBWorK at U. Rochester. (This wasn't actually mentioned in this workshop, but was in a presentation at the 2000 Joint Meetings.)
• MathFest August 3-5, 2000
  • MathFest Home Page
  • Local Directions and Info
• AMS Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century meeting in LA August 7-12.

Who did this?

Dan Dreibelbis ddreibel@unf.edu	Liberal Arts Math, Logic, Topology, Meetings
Karrolyne Fogel kfogel@clunet.edu	Linear Algebra, History of Mathematics
Brian Gill bgill@spu.edu	Probability and Statistics (Calculus based), Analysis, Calculus
John Kuchenbrod http://lazarus.ehc.edu/~jkuchen jkuchen@ehc.edu	Geometry, Bridge Courses
Randall Pruim http://www.calvin.edu/~rpruim rpruim@calvin.edu	Main Brown Dot Page, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics, Miscellaneous
Asoka Ramanayake ramanaya@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu	Buisiness Calculus, Statistics (non-Calculus)
Tom Scofield tscofiel@flint.umich.edu	Textbooks

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