Math Education Panel

Math Teaching Panel

Wednesday, November 9th 12:00- 12:50 PM

SLC 120; Pizza served at 11:30

Mary Morem	Cory Hanson	Connie Sikkink
Superintendent at Houston Public Schools	Principal at Lewiston-Altura High School	Math Teacher at Lewiston-Altura High School
Bachelor WSU Elementary Ed and Coaching Masters in Ed St. Mary's Educational Specialist Walden University Superintendent Licensure St. Mary's 28 years in education Hobbies: Being with grandkids; hiking, boating, swimming, and skiing	5-12 Social Studies - Bachelor's Master of Arts in Literacy Doctorate in Educational Leadership 20 years in education Hobbies: fishing and hunting	Bachelor of Science in Teaching (Math Education) from Winona State University Master’s in Ed (Teaching and Learning) from Saint Mary’s University 16+ years in education Hobbies: Read, watch TV, do things with family and friends

Come ask questions about the teaching field!

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, November 2, Gild155

Predicting NSIC Conference Wins and Rankings for Baseball and Softball Amberly Langer & Noah Johnson

This talk will discuss our capstone project that investigates predicting win percentage for the NSIC Conference. We investigated different regression strategies for modeling win percentage. We also investigated rankings within the conference using the Bradley Terry Model. This presentation will compare the rankings based on the Bradley Terry Model to the actual NSIC standings for the 2021 season.

Departmental Seminar

Creative and Curious Math for Undergraduate People

Dr. Aaron Wangberg
Winona State University

Abstract:  Mathematics is supposed to be fun. And Hard. And Useful. But Fun! In this interactive talk, we’ll find patterns in addition, play a series of pattern guessing games, and explore how Ms. Pacman plays tic-tac-toe. Along the way, we’ll develop a picture of doing mathematics that values creativity and curiosity that helps kids, grandparents, and everyone in between be mathematicians. This talk is accessible to all students.

Wednesday, October 26^th,

12:00- 12:50 PM

Gildemeister 155

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, September 19, Gild155

Automating Survey Management with Qualtrics Emma Rector
This talk will give an overview of the work I did this summer as part of the MASDER (Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education Research) project. The goal of the project is to develop new surveys for assessing attitudes towards statistics and data science education as well as a website for survey distribution and reporting. I will discuss my work with the Qualtrics API in R to improve our data extraction process for reports and how the project will benefit in the next stages.

Departmental Seminar

Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education

Dr. April Kerby
Winona State University

Abstract:  Statistics educators have been studying undergraduate student attitudes toward statistics for decades, but with lack of modern instruments for collecting attitudes and no mechanism for studying these attitudes at the national scale. Through our NSF-funded grant (DUE-2013392), our research team is creating a family of validated instruments to measure student attitudes toward statistics or data science, instructor attitudes toward teaching statistics or data science, and the learning environment. This talk will describe the goals of the grant, the six instruments under development and the development process, and a brief summary of the current psychometric findings.

Wednesday, October 5^th,

12:00- 12:50 PM

Gildemeister 155

Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics

 

Student Summer Research Talk

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, September 7, Gild155

My Experience in the 2022 Colorado SIBS Program Joe Nagel
This talk will provide an overview of the Colorado Summer Institute in Biostatistics (CoSIBS) program that I participated in during the summer of 2022. The CoSIBS program included classes covering the theory and methods of biostatistics. In this program, I also worked on a research project which applied spectral clustering to metabolomic and proteomic data. This program offered many opportunities to explore Denver and the surrounding areas. The 2022 CoSIBS program culminated with a hackathon.