Joint Annual Meetings
MAA Florida Section & FTYCMA
Santa Fe College

Friday, February 19, 2010

10:00-10:50 11:00-12:30 12:30-1:30	FTYCMA Officers' Meeting FTYCMA Annual Business Meeting Lunch, sponsored by Cengage Learning Room: S-029
9:30-11:00	MAA Executive Committee Meeting Room: P-266
11:00	Registration & Publishers Sign in and browse the displays from several publishing representatives. Room: P-260
1:45-2:00	Welcoming Remarks Edward T. Bonahue, Ph.D. Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs of Santa Fe College Steve Grosteffon Chair, Mathematics of Santa Fe College Don Ransford, President, FTYCMA Monika Vo, Vice-President for Programs, FL-MAA Room: WA-104
Plenary Session 2:00-2:50	Issues of the Transition to College Mathematics David Bressoud President, Mathematical Association of America Room: WA-104

Contributed Paper Sessions							Workshops
Rooms	P-160	P-163	P-164	P-165	P-263	P-265	P-236
3:00-3:45	Orange Grove and Orange Grove Open Text Books: The State of Florida Repository Jackie Copeland State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota	The Road Ahead for Undergraduate Mathematics: Part II Don Ransford Edison State College	A Simple Mathematical Model of the Mammalian Auditory Pathway Rebekah Downes University of North Florida	Curves and Surfaces from 3-D Matrices Daniel Dreibelbis University of North Florida	Using Literacy Strategies in the College Mathematics Classroom Helen P. Gerretson University of South Florida Nonlinear Interactions in a Fiber-Optic Cable Timothy Holifield Stetson University	How Many Points is “Let x = Dennis’s speed” Worth? Or Grading Problem Solving Using a Rubric Dennis C. Runde State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota	Using Trigonometry to Gain a Higher Level of Consciousness 3:00-4:00 James Condor State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
4:00-4:45	Educating Our Students for Their Future Jackie Copeland State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota	Using Adobe Flash Animations to Teach College Algebra Wendy Perry University of Tampa	Lie Symmetries of Differential Equations Danielle Wilson Stetson University On Property P1 and Spaces of Operators Stephen Rowe Wilkes Honors College, FAU	Patterns in Walks and Paths Shanzhen Gao Florida Atlantic University	How using MyMathLab® in an introductory Statistics class effect the final grades? William Dentinger Saint Leo University Finding integer partitions using different programs Louis Concillio Saint Leo University	Describing Some Polyhedra and their Symmetry group Joy D’Andrea University of South Florida Parachuting Behavior of Dendrobaties pumilio when Dropped from Primary Forest Canopy of Isla Colon, Panama Katherine Vecchi Saint Leo University	Introduction to 4:00-5:00 Nancy Johnson & Ena S. Michael State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Conference Break 4:45-5:30 Please visit the textbook publishers in room P-260
Rooms	P-160	P-161	P-163	P-164	P-263	P-265	P-236
5:30-6:15	An Eigenvalue Approach to Rotation of Axes in Two Dimensions Ken Mulzet Florida State College at Jacksonville	Too much Pi Scott Hochwald University of North Florida	“The Grapes of Math,” Investigating Mathematics in Literature Julie Miller Daytona State College	Boundary Value Problems on the Sierpinski Gasket Justin Owen Wilkes Honors College, FAU Classifying Subspaces of Lp with Alspach Norm Isaac DeFrain Wilkes Honors College, FAU	Finding the Best Point: Integrating Algebra, Geometry and Statistics for Grades 7-16 Steve Blumsack Florida State University	SCC Advance: Strengthening the Foundation of STEM Education for Seminole Community College Students Heather Edwards Seminole State College	More on 5:00-6:00 Joni Pirnot & Altay Özgener State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota

Conference Banquet and Award Ceremony 6:30-8:30 Room: R-01

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Plenary Session 9:00-9:50	DNA rearrangements through spacial graphs Natasha Jonoska University of South Florida Room: WA104
Contributed Paper Sessions
Rooms	P-160	P-163	P-165	P-236	P-263	P-265
10:00-10:45	An Intermediate Value Property for Directional Derivatives Patrick Bibby University of Miami	Associative Binary Operations and the Pythagorean Law Denis Bell University of North Florida	The Minimum Rank Problem for Chordal Graphs Robert Lang Wilkes Honors College, FAU Ultrasonic Transducers and Finite Element Modeling Sarah Crimi Wilkes Honors College, FAU	Collectionwise Weak Continuity Duals Megan Beddow Florida Southern University	Tools for Drawing Conic Sections Chuck Lindsey Florida Gulf Coast University	Effective use of the tablet pc in the mathematics classroom Steve Boast Lake Sumter Community College
11:00-11:45	Do the Math! Increasing Student Engagement and Success through Course Redesign John Squires & Karen Wyrick State Community College, TN	Mathematical Model of Conflict and Cooperation Salam Khan Florida State University	History of Cubic Equations Mike Keller St. Johns River Community College	Semi-separation in topological spaces Evelyn Lozano Florida Southern University	Let's Read the News with our Students Leonard J. Lipkin University of North Florida	Mathematics, the Environment, and Our Community Role Ben Fusaro Florida State University

Plenary Session MAA Polya Lecture 12:00-12:50	Introduction to Knot Theory Louis H. Kauffman University of Illinois at Chicago Room: WA-104
Closing Remarks 12:50-1:00	Don Ransford, President, FTYCMA Monika Vo, Vice-President for Programs, FL-MAA Room: WA-104
Luncheon 1:00-3:00	Conference Luncheon FL-MAA Business Meeting Room: R-01