Sessions – Friday, October 29, 2004 8:30 AM 9:30 AM 9:30 AM 10:30 AM WELCOME AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS HIGHLIGHT ON EXHIBITS – CABILDO ROOM POYDRAS A COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS IN TEACHING ALGEBRA 10:30 AM 11:15 AM 11:30 AM 12:15 PM Wade Ellis West Valley College Bernhard Kutzler Austrian Center for Didactics of Computer Algebra Brenda Bratten Thomas Heywood Academy Tom Reardon Fitch High School Natalie Jakucyn Glenbrook High School FRI – S1 MINI-SYMPOSIUM T3 ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 12:30 PM 1:15 PM Frank Demana The Ohio State University FRI – S17 BRINGING LINEAR PROGRAMMING TO LIFE FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS AN INTERACTIVE TOOL TO IMPROVE LEARNING 1:30 PM 2:15 PM POYDRAS B DEVELOP INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENTS FOR ENTRY LEVEL MATHEMATICS COURSES USING MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE FRI – S26 Kevin Vang Minot State University Mary Hudachek – Buswell Clayton College And State University FRI – S3 EFFECTIVENESS OF ALGORITHMIC HOMEWORK PROBLEMS IN FINITE MATHEMATICS Jay Lehmann College of San Mateo Janice Epstein Texas A&M University FRI – S10 PRESENTING THE LARGE SAMPLE BASED CONCEPTS IN STATISTICS USING SIMULATION FRI – S11 USING A COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM TO ENHANCE THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF CALCULUS Sam Behseta Roger Peck California State University at Bakersfield Jeremy Underwood Nathan Borchelt Clayton College and State University FRI – S18 INVESTIGATING THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE AND THE GOLDEN RATIO FRI – S19 WHY DO WE TEACH THEOREMS IN CALCULUS? FRI – S27 ESPLANADE A COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE: BRIDGING INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Ignatios Vakalis Capital University FRI – S2 REVIVING ALGEBRA: USING THE TI-83 TO CURVE FIT COMPELLING, AUTHENTIC SITUATIONS John Hornsby University of New Orleans Raimundo Kovac Rebecca Sparks Christopher Teixeira Rhode Island College GENTILLY ONLINE TESTING AND ASSESSMENT WITH MAPLE TA Friedhlem Schwarz Sibylle Weck-Schwarz University of Toledo FRI – S6 FILLING IN THE LEARNING CRACKS MULTIMEDIA SPACKLE FRI – S7 A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT CAUSEWEB Deane Arganbright University of Tennessee at Martin Jose Flores The University of South Dakota Roseanne Hofmann Montgomery County Community College Scott McDaniel Ginger Rowell Middle Tennessee State University FRI – S12 CRYPTOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM FRI – S13 USING DERIVE 6 IN LIBERAL ARTS/BUSINESS CALCULUS FRI – S14 USING LEARNSTAR IN CALCULUS AND TEACHER PREPARATION COURSES FRI – S15 CONSTRUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF WEB-BASED ASSESSMENT IN MATHEMATICS Carl Spitznagel Barbara D’Ambrosia John Carroll University G. Brock Williams Texas Tech University Ed Lamagna University of Rhode Island Bill Bauldry Appalachian State University Diem Nguyen Bowling Green State University MAGAZINE A DO YOU WANT TO USE THE INTERNET MORE IN YOUR CLASSES? GIROD THE "I" IN ICTCM: SOME INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS Fary Sami Harford Community College Anthony Watkins University of Plymouth, United Kingdom Antonio Quesada The University of Akron FRI – S8 LIBERAL ARTS MATH FOR SURVIVAL: INTERNET AND CLASSROOM FORMATS Joseph Sukta Moraine Valley Community College FRI – S16 CHOOSING AND USING TUTORIAL, ASSESSMENT, AND COURSE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES IN LOWER DIVISION MATHEMATICS COURSES FRI – S9 UNDERSTANDING STUDENT ATTITUDES ABOUT COMPUTER TUTORS Beverly Michael University of Pittsburgh Brenda Cates Mount Olive College FRI – S21 INTRODUCING TOPOLOGY THROUGH SIMULATIONS OF KNOT TYING AND BAND FORMING ACTIVITIES Lisa Elaine Marano West Chester University of Pennsylvania FRI – S20 MINI-SYMPOSIUM FRI – S29 FRI – S22 TEACHING ELEMENTARY STATISTICS WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGY Lisa Lee Coastline Community College FRI – S23 NO CLASSROOM? NO PROBLEM! FRI – S24 Ellen Stutes Louisiana State University At Eunice FRI – S25 USING CAS TECHNOLOGY IN MATH EDUCATION ASSESSMENT AND SURVEY RESULTS Karsten Schmidt FH Schmalkalden, Germany FRI – S30 FRI – S31 FRI – S32 FRI – S33 GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN A LINEAR ALGEBRA COURSE MULTIMEDIA FOR PRIMARY OR SECONDARY INSTRUCTION IN PRECALCULUS LEVEL COURSES CREATING AN ONLINE COURSE ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET BUILDING EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM PRESENTATIONS Przemyslaw Bogacki Old Dominion University Mary Dwyer Wolfe Steve Davis Barry Monk Macon State College Shawna Haider Salt Lake Community College David Hill Temple University Lila F. Roberts Georgia College and State University USING INFORMATION VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES TO SUPPOT THE EVALUATION OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE FRI – S38 CLICKABLE CALCULUS: MAPLETS BRING SYNTAX RELIEF FOR CAS IN THE CLASSROOM FRI – S39 DYNAMIC SPREADSHEETS THROUGHOUT THE CURRICULUM FRI – S40 HOW TO TURN MATH DUDS INTO MATH STUDS Robert Devaney Boston University Linda Braddy East Central University FRI – S48 THE ACROTEX ONLINE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM “MEET THE AUTHORS” – Cabildo Room COLLEGE ALGEBRA REFORM: SUCCESS AND FAILURES 4:00 PM 4:45 PM Bernhard Kutzler Austrian Center for Didactics of Computer Algebra, Austria CLAIBORNE USING MAPLE TA TO ASSIST STUDENT LEARNING FRI – S5 MAPLETS FOR MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:00 PM 3:45 PM Thomas Hagedorn Karen Clark The College of New Jersey AUDOBON DERIVE 6 - A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS FRI – S4 FRESH MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS OF SPREADSHEETS Lisa Townsley Benedictine University FRI – S28 CARROLLTON USING ATLAST MATERIALS WITH WEBWORK IN LINEAR ALGEBRA Robert Mayes West Virginia University USING ACTIVE LEARNING AND THE INTERNET TO TEACH UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICS MULTIPLE INTEGRATION VISUALIZATION AND ANIMATION USING MAPLE F. Michael Speed G. Donald Allen Eric Hintzee Kathleen Speed Texas A&M University Bill Blyth RMIT University - Australia FRI – S34 CURRENT PRACTICES ON USING HANDHELD TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENTAL ALGEBRA FRI – S36 CALCULUS LABORATORY PROJECTS FOR A CALCULUS COURSE FOR BIOLOGY AND PRE-MED STUDENTS Ed Laughbaum The Ohio State University Barbara Tozzi Brookdale Community College Pansy Waycaster Virginia Highlands Community College Rob Farinelli Community College of Allegheny County Boyce Campus Sharon North St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley Timothy Comar Benedictine University 5:00 PM 5:45 PM FRI – S35 MINI-SYMPOSIUM ONLINE MATERIALS FOR A HYBRID INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE AND STUDENT FEEDBACK FRI – S44 TEACHING AND LEARNING BUSINESS CALCULUS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY William Blubough University of Northern Colorado Patti Collings Brigham Young University FRI – S43 MINI-SYMPOSIUM FRI – S51 FRI –S52 AN OPTIMAL COMPUTER FACILITY LOCATION Bill Fox Hank Richardson Francis Marion University FRI – S37 MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND DISCRETE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS IN A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS COURSE Rich West Francis Marion University Robert Lopez Maplesoft FRI – S45 WHAT WE DON'T TELL CALCULUS STUDENTS ABOUT RATIONAL FUNCTION INTEGRATION FRI – S46 TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY USING SIMPLE CALCULUS AND MAPLE FRI – S47 BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGY GAP HELPING STUDENTS SUCCEED IN COLLEGE ALGEBRA Ed Lamagna University of Rhode Island Bruno Guerrieri Florida A& M University Mark Turner Cuesta College FRI – S53 FRI – S54 FRI – S55 8 D.P. Storey The University of Akron FRI – S56 Jerome Brown Harford Community College FRI – S41 CREATING A NETWORKED CLASSROOM USING THE TI-NAVIGATOR FRI – S42 HOW TO POSE IT: AN EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF A PROBLEM-POSING MODEL Theresa Watson University of Arkansas at Little Rock Armando Martinez-Cruz California State University - Fullerton Jose Contreras The University of Southern Mississippi FRI – S49 PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL FOR ASSESSING RISK FACTORS IN CALCULUS FRI – S50 BRINGING TECHNOLOGY INTO AFRICAN CLASSROOMS V.J. DuRapau Xavier University of Louisiana FRI – S57 Stuart Moskowitz Humboldt State University FRI – S58 Sessions – Saturday, October 30, 2004 8:00 AM 8:45 AM POYDRAS A THE HYBRID LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: USING TECHNOLOGY TO REDEFINE STUDENT-TEACHER RELATIONSHIPS RESULTING IN ENHANCED LEARNING OUTCOMES POYDRAS B USING THE CLASSPAD MANAGER SOFTWARE TO TEACH MATHEMATICS GENTILLY COMPUTER ALGEBRA IN CALCULUS A SELECTION OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES Diane Whitfield Casio Education Technology Doug Meade University of South Carolina Philip Yasskin Texas A&M University John Veiling CUNY - Brooklyn College John Polking Rice University Carl DeVore University of Delaware Freidhelm Schwarz University of Toledo Monte Boisen University of Idaho 9:00 AM 9:45 AM SAT – S59 INFORMAL CALCULUS AT THE COLLEGE ALGEBRA LEVEL SAT – S60 STATISTICS TECHNOLOGY UPDATE Bruce Crauder Benny Evans Oklahoma State University Mario Triola Dutchess Community College SAT – S67 SAT – S68 SAT – S61 MINI-SYMPOSIUM ESPLANADE A INTERACTIVE TOOLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING PROOF Doug Ensley Winston Crawley Shippensburg University HANDHELD TECHNOLOGY IN PRESERVICE COURSES FOR PROSPECTIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS Ed Connors University of Massachussetts, Amherst Dr. Mary Ann Connors Westfield State College Dr. Judy O'Neal North Georgia College and State University 2:30 PM 3:15 PM 3:30 PM 4:15 PM 4:30 PM 5:15 PM QUANTITATIVE LITERACY USING EXCEL Jerry Johnson University of Nevada - Reno Alan Noell Oklahoma State University SAT – S75 A COLLABORATION: STATISTICS AND HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY LAB Renee Robichaux Diane Fisher Louisiana State University at Eunice SAT – S74 MINI-SYMPOSIUM USING SKETCHPAD IN CONTENT COURSES FOR ELEMENTARY/MIDDLE SCHOOL PRESERVICE TEACHERS 1:30 PM 2:15 PM AUDOBON USING CAMTASIA TO PRODUCE STREAMING VIDEOS FOR THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM CLAIBORNE RECIPE FOR STUDENTS' SUCCESS Roseanne Hofman Montgomery County Community College Joanne Thomasson Pellissippi State Technical Community College MAGAZINE A THE TWILIGHT OF PARTIAL CREDIT AND THE REBIRTH OF MASTERY Joseph Aieta Babson College SAT – S63 GENERATING AND MODELING DATA FROM REAL-WORLD EXPERIMENTS SAT – S64 REVIEW OF MATHEMATICS SOFTWARE FOR POCKET PC'S SAT – S65 LET THERE BE TOOLS FOR ALL Joseph Fadyn Southern Polytechnic State University Robert Kowalczyk Adam Hausknecht University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Russell Herman Gabriel Lugo University of North Carolina - Wilmington SAT – S69 SAT – S70 SAT – S71 SAT – S72 SAT – S73 USING A COMPUTER SCREEN AS A WHITEBOARD WHILE RECORDING THE LECTURE AS A SOUND MOVIE JAVASCRIPT SOLUTIONS FOR ONLINE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ONLINE MATHEMATICS PLACEMENT TEST Evan Siegal Brooklyn College Mansoor Vejdani University of Cincinnati SAT- S80 USING WEBWORK THROUGHOUT THE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM SAT – S81 DYNAMIC MATHEMATICS VIA PRESENTATION SOFTWARE Thomas Hagedorn The College of New Jersey J. Wendell Wyatt Northeastern State University SAT – S86 USING JAVA APPLETS TO EXPLORE MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS OF FUNCTIONS SAT – S87 SCREEN-CAPTURE MOVIES, WEBBASED FEEDBACK, AND SMARTBOARDS IN TEACHING MATH SAT – S88 PEDAGOGY OF ONLINE MATHEMATICS LEARNING: CASE OF WEBCT IN A MATRIX LauraPyzdrowski West Virginia University Anthony Pyzdrowski California University of Pennsylvania Bruce Pollack-Johnson Villanova University Hamide Dogan Dunlap University of Texas at El Paso SAT – S94 HOW TO TEACH 2000 PRECALCULUS AND CALCULUS STUDENTS ONLINE WITHOUT SACRIFICING PERSONAL CONTACT SAT – S95 REACHING AND TEACHING K-12 MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTORS VIA DISTANCE LEARNING SAT – S96 COGNITIVE COMPUTER TOOLS IN UNDERGRADUATE CALCULUS: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH STUDY David Thomas University of Idaho Nathan Borchelt Clayton College and State University SAT – S102 INTRODUCTION TO JEXAM SAT – S103 WHICH PDA IS RIGHT FOR YOU? John Gosselin University of Georgia Ravinder Kumar Kanchan Manktala Alcorn State University Sarah Lou Mabrouk Framingham State College SAT – S66 COLLEGE ALGEBRA IN CONTEXT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Ron Harshbarger University of Southern Carolina - Beaufort Lisa Yocco Georgia Southern University Highlight on Exhibits – Cabildo Room 11:30 AM 12:15 PM 12:30 PM 1:15 PM Arun Verma Hampton University SAT – S62 TANK TIME 2: STRUCTURED MAPLE PROJECTS FOR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS 9:45 AM 10:30 AM 10:30 AM 11:15 AM CARROLLTON "CONVERGE" - AN EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION SOFTWARE FOR COLLEGE LEVEL MATHEMATICS COURSES John Englehardt Southern Oregon University Bill Whitmire Francis Marion University SAT – S82 DEVELOPING PRECALCULUS CONCEPTS IN CONTEXT Marsha Davis Eastern Connecticut State University INVESTIGATING FACTORS THAT AFFECT STUDENT SUCCESS IN "VIRTUAL" BUSINESS CALCULUS Brian Felkel Appalachian State University SAT – S76 INTERESTING COMPUTER EXPLORATIONS IN MULTIVARIATE CALCULUS Thomas Wangler Benedictine University SAT – S83 ENHANCED LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT AND ENHANCED LEARNING OF CALCULUS THROUGH ONLINE QUIZZES Manmohan Kaur Benedictine University EXPANDING CURVES AND ARC LENGTH Jeffrey Ehme Colm Mulcahy Spelman College Joel Fowler Southern Polytechnic State University SAT – S77 PHASE DIAGRAMS TO VISUALIZE THE BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS USING MAPLE SAT – S78 PERSONALIZING DERIVATIVES AND ANTIDERIVATIVES WITH GEOMETER'S SKETCHPAD, A CBR AND AND A TI-84 SAT - S79 CHANGING THE VENUE: INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS IN THREE SETTINGS Juan Carlos Quintero Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Colombia Judy O’Neal North Georgia College and State University Mary Ellen Davis Virginia Parks Georgia Perimeter College SAT – S84 OPTIMIZATION IN MATHEMATICS SAT – S85 William Fox Hank Richardson Francis Marion University Mark Parker Carroll College Dale Peterson United States Air Force Academy Mike Jaye Steve Horton United States Military Academy John Kobza Texas Tech University SAT – S89 EASY CURVE-FITTING INVESTIGATIONS IN PRECALCULUS USING FINITE DIFFERENCES AND TECHNOLOGY SAT – S90 DESIGNING LEARNING ACTIVITIES WITH DYNAMIC GEOMETRY AND COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS: THE ELLIPSE CASE Ward Canfield National-Louis University Ana Guadalupe Castillo Bojorquez Universidad de Sonora – Mexico SAT – S97 TRANSFORMING AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY SAT – 98 BLACKBOARD AND GROUP WORK IN DEVELOPMENTAL MATHEMATICS COURSES SAT – S99 THE SYMBOLIC MATH GUIDE - A FRIENDLY EXPERT IN YOUR CALCULUS CLASSROOM Robb Sinn North Georgia College and State University Raquel Mesa Susan Fredine Paul McCreary Xavier University of Louisiana J. Douglas Child Rollins College SAT – S104 INTERACTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES USING THE TI-83+/84+ CALCULATOR IN SECONDARY MATHEMATICS PRESERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS SAT – S105 GEOMETRY OF THE EARTH AND UNIVERSE COMPUTER LABS SAT – S106 USING TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH APPLIED CALCULUS SAT – S107 EXTENDING YOUR CALCULATOR: APPS ON THE 84 Sarah Greenwald Appalachian State University Katherine Bollinger Li Chen Texas A&M University Joseph Fiedler Michael Lutz California State University - Bakersfield Janet Tarjan Bakersfield College Jorgen Berglund California State University – Chico SAT – S113 MATH BOOT CAMP: SECOND CHANCE TO SUCCEED SAT – S114 USING GRAPHING CALCULATORS TO ENHANCE STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMAL DEFINITION OF LIMITS Patsy Fagan Drake University Stephanie Lochbaum Austin Community College Karen Allen Valparaiso University Marcia Weller Weinhold Purdue University Calumet Terrie Poehl Louisiana State University Gwen Terwilliger University of Toledo SAT – S91 ADVENTURES IN THE DYNAMIC MATH CLASSROOM, USING AUTOGRAPH IN 2D AND 3D PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY USING MAPLE Kate Rozsa Mesa Community College Vlasta Kokol-Voljc University of Maribor - Slovenia SAT – S92 MINI-SYMPOSIUM MATH IS MUSIC – STATS IS LITERATURE: OR WHY AREN’T THERE ANY 6-YEAR-OLD NOVELISTS? Richard De Veaux Williams College Antonio Quesada The University of Akron SAT – S120 MINI-SYMPOSIUM SAT – S121 SAT – S122 SAT – S93 TEACHING MATHEMATICS: TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCES THE MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGE SAT – S115 SAT – S100 APPLICATION OF LINEAR ALGEBRA IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SIERPENSKI’S GASKET Jonathan Lewin Kennesaw State University Terri Bourdon Virginia Tech SAT – S101 MATH STRUCTURES IN MUSIC APPLIED TO HTML INTERPRETATION Joseph Tahsoh Benedict College Mariano Rodrigues Russell Beauchemin Rhode Island College SAT – S108 INCREASING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN A LARGE SECTION APPLIED CALCULUS COURSE SAT –S109 FACULTY TEAMS TO WRITE AN EXAM BUILDER (SCIENTIFIC NOTEBOOK) DATABASE SAT – S110 WHAT GOES WHERE? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN? DESIGN ISSUES FOR HYBRID/WEB-ENHANCED COURSES SAT – S111 THE ROLE OF THE GRAPHIC CALCULATOR IN MATH EDUCATION Edgar Fuller West Virginia University David Platt Alan Dinwiddie Front Range Community College Mike Turegun Chris Oehrlein Marsha Austin Ken Harrelson Oklahoma City Community College Shin Watanabe Tokai University - Japan SAT – S116 ENHANCING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES SAT – S117 IMPROVING RETENTION AND STUDENT SUCCESS IN COLLEGE ALGEBRA SAT – S118 USING A SMARTBOARD EFFECTIVELY IN A MATHEMATICS COURSE SAT – S119 A LOOK AT STUDENTS' EXPECTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY Alex Himonas Jennifer Gorsky University of Notre Dame Susan Hitchcock Ana De Armas Palm Beach Community College SAT – S123 SAT – S124 9 Robert Poodiack Norwich University SAT – S125 Steven Wicker Wake Forest University SAT – S126