Educational Issues in Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

Monday, September 21		David Henderson, Cornell University A mathematician looks at RUME (Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education)
Wednesday, February 3		David Henderson, Cornell University Visualization and imagination in mathematics
Wednesday, February 10		Nat Miller, Cornell University Intuition vs. formal systems: how symbols acquire meaning
Wednesday, February 17		Nat Miller, Cornell University Diagrams and formality as a route to understanding
Wednesday, February 24		Avery Solomon, Cornell University Platonism meets constructivism: kinds of understanding in mathematics
Wednesday, March 3		Dorothy Buerke, Ithaca College What is intuition in mathematics?
Wednesday, March 31		Samer Habre, Cornell University Visualization skills in a combined multivariable calculus and differential equations class
Wednesday, April 7		Beverly West, Cornell University Successful take-home exams, where students show what they can do, instead of what they can not
Wednesday, April 14		Marcia Ascher, Ithaca College What is mathematics? (and, who decides?)
Wednesday, April 21		Nat Miller, Cornell University My experiences teaching a Freshman Writing Seminar in mathematics