AMATYC 2023

 For AMATYC 2023, I was part of the themed session on inspiring curiosity, I presented to Project ACCCESS, and I was part of the IGNITE event.

The curiosity talk slides are HERE in PDF form.

The ACCCESS talk slides are HERE in PDF form. 

The Carnival of Math, hosted by me!

 Howdy, welcome to the Carnival of Mathematics 

For all the previous Carnival sites, please go to HERE, Carnival of Mathematics Home.

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First, I currently live in Texas, about 3.5 hours east of Uvalde.  As Jose Vilson blogged, "It's OK to not have the words."  thejosevilson.com

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It was a slow month for the carnival, for whatever reason(s).  But that is okay, there are some interesting sites in any event.

First, Micro Visual Proofs put a neat video on their youtube channel about six different Sierpinski Triangle Constructions.  Sierpinski Triangles

Next, a nice post about Benfords law, and some applications.  The nice part is the post has a simulator, and discusses Benfords law in different bases.  Thanks to Jason Ross for the post.  Benfords Law Blog

Jay's Blog had a nice post (in a series) about hypothesis testing.  The posts are a little long, as Jay gets into some technical details, so a heads up if you were wanting a quick read.  jaydaigle.net

If you (or like me, your kids) have an Occulus, you might be interested in Robert Kaplinsky's post about an experience learning math in the metaverse.  If nothing else, it caused me to reflect upon how I do things in the classroom.  robertkaplinsky.com

David Bressoud has done a lot of work on the precalculus through calculus sequence in colleges and universities across the USA, both while president of the MAA and afterwards.  He and the MAA just released a big report about it, and the introduction is linked to from this tweet:    David on Twitter

Finally for this month, if you have heard about the "ungrading" or different grading methods (like specs, or standards based, etc.) David Clark and Robert Talbert are writing a lot of blog posts about it while they finish a book over the topic.  There are some nice suggestions and links about how to start HERE, and an interesting twitter discussion they had HERE, when they asked for feedback and common objections.    The tweet contains another thread.  Both are worth reading through.

As we start summer, please take care, find some rest, and keep working!

AMATYC 2021 Project ACCCESS Writing Talk

These are the slides from my presentation to the ACCCESS cohorts about writing projects in the classroom.  Click on each slide to see a bigger version.  To re-cap the presentation, I encouraged the newer faculty to use writing in their classes both as assessments that are "google resistant" but also as a way of helping the students deepen their understanding of the material.  I provided some examples, and discussed things about the time involved to have and grade writing assignments.

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AMATYC 2021 Escape Room Talk

These are the slides from my escape room talk at the AMATYC 2021 conference.  Basically, on review days before the exam, I set up an escape room for my students with problems that go with the topics on the upcoming exam.  

I gave suggestions and lessons learned during the presentation, and the most important slides are below.  (I had music and some other stuff on other slides)  The basic supplies I used are linked below.

The problems the teams worked to try and escape are in PDF form HERE

 

The wooden boxes	ZZZ	The metal multi-lock
The plastic multi-lock	The mini-locks	The directional lock
Color changing paint	Blacklight ink	A blacklight flashlight

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AMATYC 2021 IGNITE talk: Save Your A** With Assessment.

These are the slides from my IGNITE talk at AMATYC 2021.  The entire series of talks will be posted on the conference webpage.  Clicking on each image will open the full size image.  If you have never seen an IGNITE talk, each speaker gets exactly 20 slides, and they must auto-advance every 15 seconds.  So the talks are lively.  

Briefly, my talk was focused on the fact that instructors are most needed on the assessment side.  Especially now that almost everyone has recorded videos, made notes, etc.  

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