Program - Spring Meeting of the Missouri Section of the MAA


Richardson Science Center - Concurrent Sessions
Friday, April 9, 1999

2:10 - 2:25
Using Computer Exercises to Teach Graphing; Susan Callahan, Cottey College
Statistical Independence on the Fractional Age Dependence Assumption; Jinhua (Jean) Tao, CMSU
Theorems and Experiments in Calculus, Part A; SMSU Calculus I Class - Kishor Shah, SMSU

2:30 - 2:45
Goals for Calculus I at a Liberal Arts College; Carol Collins, Charles Allen, Drury College
On the Geometry of Locally Nonconical Convex Sets; Glenn C. Shell, Lincoln University
Theorems and Experiments in Calculus, Part B; SMSU Calculus I Class - Kishor Shah, SMSU

2:50 - 3:05
Using PowerPoint for Elementary Statistics; Ben Budde, Westminster College
Odd Abundant Numbers (Preliminary Report); Lateef Adelani, John Behle, Harris-Stowe State College
Theorems and Experiments in Calculus, Part C; SMSU Calculus I Class - Kishor Shah, SMSU

3:10 - 3:25
Projectory of a Bullitt: On Target with Math History; Charlie Smith, Park College
Modelling Recall Operations at Whiteman Air Force Base; Steven Burton, L. Vincent Edmondson, CMSU
Recursive Generation of Infinite Sequences and Continued Fractions; Jagahnatha P. Senesi, SMSU

3:25 - 3:50
Break

3:50 - 4:05
Teaching Powers: Graphs and Models; Elizabeth Berman Appelbaum, Blue Valley School District
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search; Curtis Cooper, CMSU
Factorial Gaps Between Prime Numbers; Eric Hartmann, SMSU

4:10 - 4:25
Amusing Coincidences and Amazing Comparisons; Scott Garten, Northwest Missouri State University
The Ring of Functions on Z_n; Phoebe Ho, CMSU
An Introduction to Elliptic Curves; Bryan Chapman

4:30 - 4:45
Some Old and Elegant Techniques of Analytic Geometry; Mangho Ahuja, SEMO
Construction of Maximal Right Subgroups of Compact Topological and Convergence Semigroups; Shing S. So, CMSU
On Proofs of Sylow's Theorem; Lucille Marshall, SMSU


Saturday, April 10, 1999

8:40 - 8:55
My Experiences in Project NExT; Ilene Morgan, UMR
Exact Errors in Numerical Integration; Mark Sand, Northwest Missouri State University
Flatland, Quaternions, and Plato's Allegory of the Caves; Jim Sly, Hillcrest High School, Springfield, MO (SMSU Student)

9:00 - 9:15
Learning Pell's Equation by Doing; James T. Bruening, SEMO
On Chowla's Conjecture in Number Theory; Liang-Cheung Zhang, SMSU
The Transcendence of e; George Bodurov, SMSU

9:20 - 9:35
The Intersection Lattice of a Discriminantal Arrangement; Keith Brandt, Missouri Western State College
On the Motion of Heavenly Bodies; Chris Mueller, SMSU

9:35 - 10:00
Break

10:00 - 11:00
Interactive Geometry and Linear Algebra Using the Internet: A Contemporary Approach; Thomas Banchoff, Brown University


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