Two-year College Representative’s Report..................................... Lois
Martin
The
33rd annual AMATYC conference will be held in Minneapolis from November 1-4. Phil Mahler (Middlesex CC) and Lois Martin
(Massasoit CC) will be accepting awards for their math teams that tied for the
Northeast Region championship, topping a field of sixteen community colleges in
New York and New England. This is the 3rd time in four
years that the Massasoit team has taken top honors.
In
Spring 2007, NEMATYC made its first Student Math
League Recognition Awards. This award
program was established to foster extracurricular mathematics learning
opportunities for students through participation in the AMATYC Student
Mathematics League. The top-scoring
student from each NEMATYC primary service area school received a $100
Recognition Award. The top student in the Northeast region for the second
consecutive year, Nathan Gilbert (Middlesex
Community College), will
receive additional recognition at the AMATYC conference in November.
NEMATYC hosted its second successful Fall Dinner Meeting on
October 12 in Worcester. Andrew Chen PhD, EduTron
Corporation and MIT spoke on the topic “ Cross-cultural
Lore ... and Don’t Shoot the Messenger!”
MATYCONN’s Fall
2007 meeting will be held on October 26 at Naugatuck Valley
Community College. Dr. Michael Nabel, Quinnipiac University, will speak on “Using Magic
to Motivate Learning of Mathematics”.
NEMATYC 2008, “Keeping it Real in 08”, will be held on April
11-12 at Springfield
Technical Community
College.
See the web site www.NEMATYC.org for a Call for Presenters.
Several area community college faculty
have participated in Project ACCCESS.
Marsha Pease, North Shore Community College
is the newest fellow, joining Amy Adams and James Giumarra
(Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology), Marianne Rosato
(Massasoit Community
College), Curtis Mitchell (Greenfield
Community College), and Anne O’Shea (North Shore
Community College).
Glenn Pavlicek (Bridgewater State
College) and Lois Martin (Massasoit Community College) were invited to address
the Commonwealth Transfer Advisory Group regarding the work done by the CONNECT
Mathematics group relative to facilitating transfer of mathematics courses in Southeastern Massachusetts