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Presentations by RUSMP directors, teachers and staff at local, state and national conferences:

• Build, Draw, and Interpret: 3-D Visualization Activities Using Somas and Cubes

  This presentation was made at the 2008 NCTM Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, April 10, 2008 by Dr. Jackie Sack.

• Deal or No Deal? Fair or Not Fair?

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Thursday, November 29, 2007 by Dr. Jason Gershman.

• Build It! Draw It! Interpret It!

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Friday, November 30, 2007 by Dr. Jackie Sack and Irma Vazquez.

• Using Coconuts, Rutabagas, and 'Bonacci Numbers' to Develop Mathematical Concepts

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Friday, November 30, 2007 by Carolyn White.

• Assessing the Understanding of Solutions of Equations and Systems

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Friday, November 30, 2007 by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou and Richard Parr.

• A Tale of Two Functions: Exploring Cubic Functions

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Friday, November 30, 2007 by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou.

• Using Parametric Representations to Make Connections

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Friday, November 30, 2007 by Richard Parr.

• Why Is It So Hard to Tune My Guitar? A Look at the Mathematics behind the Music

  This presentation was made at the 2007 NCTM Regional Conference and Exposition in Houston, Texas on Thursday, November 29, 2007 by Charlie Burrus.

• Strengthening Mathematics Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge through Collaborative Investigations in Combinatorics (and supporting paper). Dr. Jackie Sack and Dr. Ann McCoy made this presentation in October, 2007 at the annual meeting of PME-NA, the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

• Investigating Functional Inverses from the Concrete to the Symbolic

  This presentation was made at the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching in San Antonio, Texas on June 30, 2007 by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou.

• Using Multiple Representations to Enhance Instruction of Sequences and Series

  This presentation was made at the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching in San Antonio, Texas on June 30, 2007 by Richard Parr.

• The Intersection of Origami and Non-Euclidean Geometries

  This presentation was made at the 2007 Annual NCTM Conference on March 24 in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou and Adrienne Sack.
  Also available is additional instruction on origami folding.

• Built it, Draw it, Interpret it.

  This presentation was made at the 2007 Annual NCTM Conference on March 23 in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. Jackie Sack.

• Parametric Representation throughout Pre-Calculus

  This presentation was made at the 2007 Annual NCTM Conference on March 22 in Atlanta, Georgia by Richard Parr.

• What US Mathematics Leaders Can Learn from the Dutch about Aligning Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment, and Professional Development

  This presentation was made at the 2007 Annual NCSM Conference on March 21 in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou and Jo Ann Wheeler.

• Let's Get All of Our Students in the Mathematics Fast Track

  This presentation was made at the 2006 Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching in Houston, Texas by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou.

• Problem Solved: Making Algebra Fun Through Problem Solving

  Richard Parr made this presentation at the 2006 Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching in Houston, Texas.

• Instructional Strategies that Promote Literacy in Mathematics

  Dr. Jackie Sack made the presentation at the 2006 Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching in Houston, Texas.

• The 2004-2005 Pershing/Rice University Math Partnership: PUMPing Up Math Achievement

  This presentation was given by Caren Grant, Department Chairperson at HISD's Pershing Middle School, and Richard Parr at the Research Presession of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri in April 2006. (abstract)

• Leadership Development: Rice University/School District Collaboration

  This presentation was given by Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou and Dr. Jackie Sack for the Rice University Center for Excellence and Equity in Education Conference for educators from the United Kingdom in April 2006.

• A Framework for Geometry K-12

  This is Dr. Jackie Sack's presentation at the 2006 Teacher Quality Grant Program Meeting for Grant Awardees in Austin, Texas.

• Let's Get All of Our Students in the Pre-AP and AP Mathematics Fast Track

  Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou made this presentation at the Advanced Placement 2005 National Conference in Houston, Texas.

• Problem Solved : Algebra for All Students

  This is Richard Parr's presentation at the 2005 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California.

• Investigating the Inverses of Functions Using Patty Paper

  This is Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou's presentation at the 2004 Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT).

• Parametric Representation throughout Pre-Calculus

  Richard Parr made this presentation at the 2004 Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT).

• Let's Get All of Our Students in the Mathematics Fast Track

  Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou made this presentation at the 2004 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting in Philadelphia and at the 2004 Expanding Your Horizons Conference at the Rice School/La Escuela Rice.

• We've Come a Long Way Since the "New Math" of the 50s

  Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou presented this talk at the 2003 Conference for Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT).

• University/School District Collaboration for Change: Houston's Project CLEAR Algebra I

  Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou, Michelle Rohr, Mathematics Director for the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Richard Parr and Sherry Senior, Assistant Director for Secondary Mathematics for HISD made this presentation at the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas in April 2003.

• The Rice University School Mathematics Project's Urban Program in the Houston Independent School District's North District

  Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou, Richard Parr and Elaine Eaves, RUSMP Support Teacher, made this presentation at the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference in San Antonio in April 2003.

• Using the Media to Teach Mathematics

  This presentation was given by RUSMP Director Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou for the 2003 RUSMP Spring Networking Conference and for the Expanding Your Horizons Spring 2003 Conference.

• The Rice University School Mathematics Project: Past Impact and Future Research by Paul Cruz

  This is the presentation given by RUSMP's graduate research assistant Paul Cruz for the Rice University Industrial/ Organizational Psychology Research Seminar.

• Building Mathematics Leaders in PreK-12 Education

  This is the presentation given by RUSMP Director Dr. Anne Papakonstantinou for the Rice University Center for Excellence and Equity in Education Conference for educators from the United Kingdom in October 2002.