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Summer Campus Program Presentations

The following presenations were given during Summer Campus Program colloquia:

• Tropical Mathematics: An Interesting and Useful Variant of Ordinary Arithmetic

  This talk was presented by Professor John Polking at the 2007 Summer Campus Program.

• Sack's Interpretation of Schwab's Commonplaces

  This graphic by Dr. Jackie Sack, Rice NSF MLI Director, was presented at the 2006 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• Cryptography-The Making and Breaking of Secret Codes

  Rice University Mathematics Professor Emeritus John Polking made this presentation at the 2006 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• Research-Based Principles for Designing Mathematics Instruction

  Dr. Heidi Schweingruber, Board of Science Education, made this presentation at the 2005 Summer Campus Program.

• Tropical Mathematics: An Interesting and Useful Variant of Ordinary Arithmetic

  This is a PDF version of the talk presented by Professor John Polking at the 2005 Summer Campus Program.

• Preparing America's Future: Math-Science Initiative

  Assistant Secretary of Education, Dr. Susan Sclafani, made this presentation at the "Closing the Achievement Gap" conference that opened the 2005 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• Nanotechnology: The Big Science of the Very Small

  This is a PDF version of the talk presented by Dr. Kristin Kuwlinoski at the 2004 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• Problem Solving in the 19th Century-The Roots of the Standards

  This is the PowerPoint presentation of the talk presented by Arthur Howard and the 2004 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• Cryptography-The Making and Breaking of Secret Codes

  Professor John Polking made this presentation at the 2004 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• NCTM Principles: The “Character” of School Mathematics

  A downloadable version of the PowerPoint presentation given by Cynthia Lanius at the 2003 RUSMP Summer Campus Program Administrator Day.

• The Language of Mathematics

  This is a text version of the slides presented by Dr. Stanley Chang in his presentation to the 2003 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• The Many Hats of the Mathematics Teacher

  Marla Stanley made this presentation at the 2003 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• Area, Angle, and Curvature

  Dr. Herbert Clemens, The Ohio State University, made this colloquium presentation at the 2003 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• In Equity Issues, Should the Texas K-12 Accountability System Become a National Model?

  Cynthia Lanius made this presentation at the 2001 RUSMP Summer Campus Program.

• The Shape of Space-RUSMP Spring Networking Conference Presentation by Dr. Diane Hoffoss

  This web site is related to the keynote speech delivered by Dr. Diane Hoffoss at the RUSMP Spring 2001 Networking Conference.

• Learning Mathematics: Perspectives from Developmental Psychology

  This is Dr. Heidi Schweingruber's presentation to the 2001 Summer Campus Program.