Two-year College Representative’s Report..................................... Lois
Martin
The 19th Annual International Conference on
Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM),was held in Boston
on February 15-18, 2007, was hosted by Quinsigamond Community
College. Virginia
Asadoorian, professor of mathematics at QCC, served as conference chair.
The annual NEMATYC conference was held at Bristol Community
College in Fall River on Friday and Saturday, April 20-21. The theme was E X P A N D Your Horizons and the program promises to help you do exactly
that. There were sessions on using
tablet pc technology, reading in mathematics, assessment, and other hot topics,
as well as special sessions for department
chairs and adjunct faculty,
The MATYCONN Spring
2007 Meeting will be held at Manchester
Community College, Manchester, CT,
on Friday, April 27, 2007.
Mathematics faculty from Bristol Community College (Elaine
Previte and Greg Sethares), Cape Cod Community College (Mary Moynihan and Aaron
Wan), Massasoit Community College (Jane DeVoe and Lois
Martin), Bridgewater State College (Glenn Pavlicek), and
UMass Dartmouth (Sokratis Koumas) form
the Math CONNECT committee. Facilitated
by Ron Pitt from BSC, the group has been working for the past year, discussing
mathematics curriculum from the five schools with the goal of facilitating
transfer among the schools.
Mathematics faculty from the 15 Massachusetts community
colleges worked for three years on the 100% Math Initiative, a grant funded by
the U.S. Department of Education. The goal of the project was to spark changes
in instructional practice that would foster improved student retention and
performance in their developmental math classes. The final report of the group, the 100% Math Initiative, Building a Foundation
for Student Success in Developmental Mathematics, was recently published
and distributed to all of the community colleges. Phil Mahler, Middlesex Community College,
is a member of the Developmental Mathematics Institute which oversaw the
project.