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Archive of Meeting Presentations

Fall 2025 Meeting at the University of Mary Washington - Slides

Currie's Mysterious Pattern and Iterated Functions, Parts 1 and 2 by Dan Kalman
Optimal Shut the Box by Benjamin wilson

Spring 2025 Meeting at George Mason University - Slides

Mathemalchemy: Student Experiences at the National Academy of Sciences by Alice Petillo
Directed tilings of the Euclidean and hyperbolic plane by Brandon Shapiro
Hamilton and Quaternions: A Case Study in Mathematical Research by Jeff Suzuki
Some Properties of Currie's Curious Function by Dan Kalman

Fall 2024 Meeting at Old Dominion University - Slides

Lord Rayleigh: A Quintessential Classical Applied Mathematician and Mathematical Physicist by John Adam
Active Learning using Geometry In and Out of the Classroom by Beth Claire Branman
Using standards-based grading in all classes by Brian Heinold
Pythagorean n-ples by Dan Kalman
Identifying relevant covariates in RNA-seq analysis by pseudo-variable augmentation by Yet Nguyen
Adaptive Location and Scale Estimation with Kernel-Weighted Averages by Michael Pokojovy
Fully-Discrete Lyapunov Consistent Discretizations for Parabolic Reaction-Diffusion Equations with r Species by Mohammed Sayyari

Spring 2024 Meeting at James Madison University — Slides

Middle School Math Modeling Outreach by Karen Bliss, Greg Hartman, and Meagan Herald
Exploring Probabilities in Bingo and Its Variations by Matt Gunn
Rethinking Precalculus by Spencer Hamblen
Explaining the Math of Queer Relationship Dynamics by Edison Hauptman
Finitely Additive Measures in Number Theory by Charles Samuels

Fall 2023 Meeting at Stevenson University — Slides

Pythagorean Triples and Generalized Fibonacci Numbers by Jathan Austin
Trans Rights & Quantitative Justice Education by Mark Branson
An extension of the Pythagorean theorem, with applications by Ray Cheng
Compassionate Teaching by Amy Tucker
Winning Wordle with Math by Ben Wilson
Modeling Antibody Levels Post SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination by Zihao Zhao

Spring 2023 Meeting Virginia State University — Slides

Middle School Math Modeling Outreach Day by Karen Bliss, Gregory Hartman, and Meagan Herald
Cutting corners: you miter enjoy this talk by Karen Bliss and Gregory Hartman
An easy on-ramp to mastery-based grading by Jay Daigle
An Introductory Mathematical Modeling Course without Calculus by Gregory Hartman and Sara Whipple
Fun with L(2,1)-labelling by Brian Heinold
FFEM for Elliptic State Constrained Optimal Control Problems by Andre Mas
Connection Problems in Graphs by Jason Rosenhouse
Formally Verifying Run-time Assurance by J. Tanner Slagel
Generalizations for Maxwell's Equations to Yang-Mills Equations by Abby Swanson
A Partial Mastery Grading Approach for Calculus by Benjamin Wilson

Spring 2018 Meeting at Washington & Lee and VMI — Slides

Prime Factors and Divisibility of Sums of Powers of Fibonacci Numbers by Spirit Karcher.
PreTeXt: One input, Many beautiful outputs by Mitch Keller.

Fall 2017 Meeting at Christopher Newport University — Slides

The MAA's Instructional Practices Guide: Introduction to a New Resource by Beth Burroughs.
Mastery-Based Grading in Intro to Proofs, or Innovation at the Last Minute by Spencer Hamblen.
Exercises for a Numerical Methods Course by Brian Heinold.
Mastery Based Testing by Chris Lee.
The I Road to Higher Mathematics — Promoting Inquiry as Part of Mathematical Maturity by Bob Sachs
Spectral Analysis of the Graph Laplacian on Homogeneous Trees by Matvey Yutin.

Spring 2017 Meeting at Frostburg University — Slides

Polynomial Equations and Tangents by James Blowers.
Fighting Alternative Facts: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Social Issues by Mark Branson.
Ten Mathematical Landmarks, 1967–2017 by Bud Brown.
“Dangers” and surprises of secret gift-giving games by Donna Dietz.

Fall 2016 Meeting at Johns Hopkins University — Slides

An incompleat history of the (7,3,1) block design by Bud Brown.
Permutation Polynomials and Polynomial Generators of a General Linear Group by Chris Castillo.
Students Writing For Students by Spencer Hamblen.
Probability Questions from the Game Pickomino by Brian Heinold
My IBL Approach to Theoretical Ideas in First-Semester Calculus by Mitchel T. Keller
Magma in Teaching and Research by Keith Mellinger.
The geometry of linear voting methods by Prasad Senesi.
Object Based Learning: Using the Smithsonian Collections to Enhance Mathematics Education by Amy Shell-Gellasch.

Spring 2016 Meeting at Montgomery College, Germantown — Slides

Monthly Problem 3173, Samuel Beatty, and 1/p + 1/q = 1 by Bud Brown
The international PISA Math Test shows that students need instruction in multi-step Arithmetic word problems by Jerome Dancis
The ART of tomography by Timothy Feeman
Non-Special Divisors on Graphs by Caroline Grant Melles
Calculating the Surface Area of Smooth Manifolds Embedded in 4 Dimensions by Mary Wall

Fall 2015 Meeting at St. Mary's College — Slides

The nonnegative integers form ... a field?? by Ezra Brown
Sonobe Origami for enriching understanding of geometric concepts in three dimensions by Donna Dietz
Smalltalk: A Student-Faculty Colloquium by Brian Heinold
A Passage Through Brobdingnag by Ilhan Izmirli
Octonions, Quaternions, and Involutions by Nathaniel Schwartz
Combinatorial Games: Open Problems and Computational Approaches by Gwyn Whieldon
Measuring Identification Risk in Microdata Release and Its Control by Post-randomization by Cheng Zhang

Spring 2015 Meeting at Roanoke College — Slides

Five familes and a well: A new look at an old problem by Ezra Brown and Matthew Crawford
The Symmetric Group and Fair Division: Does Knowledge Matter? by Brian Hopkins
Geometry: Old and New by Will Traves

Fall 2014 Meeting at Bowie State University — Slides

Multipliers of difference sets and how to find them by Ezra Brown
Twisty Puzzles for Liberal Arts Math Courses by Donna Dietz
Computable Mathematics by Valentina Harizanov
Some Observations on Klein Quartic, Groups, and Geometry by Cherng-tiao Perng
Modified Picard Iteration Applied to Boundary Value Problems and Volterra Integral Equations by Hamid Semiyari
Cannonballs, Triangles, and Secrets: An introduction to elliptic curve cryptography by Larry Washington

Spring 2014 Meeting at James Madison University — Slides

Automatic Differentiation by Brian Heinold
Teaching Introductory Statistics with In-Class Data Collection by Heidi Hulsizer
Interval Vectors by Ilhan M. Izmirli
Divisibility Tests Unified: Stacking the Trimmings for Sums by Edwin O'Shea

Fall 2013 Meeting at Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University — Slides

Tracking the Mailman: An adventure in graph theory by James V. Blowers
The Celestial Element Method: Finding Polynomial roots in 18th Century Japan by David Clark
The AMC5: An Initiative by the MAA MD-DC-VA Section by Randall E. Cone
Creative Approaches to Discrete Mathematics by Brian Heinold
An Arithmetic View of a Classical Calculus Problem by Larry Lehman
On a Formula of Liouville Type for the Quadratic Form x²+2y²+2z²+4w² by Cherng-tiao Perng
Who You Math With: The Role of Networking in the Accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker and Maria Mitchell by Hannah Vogel
Poincaré-Betti Series of Monomial Quotient Rings by Gwyn Whieldon

Spring 2013 Meeting at Salisbury University — Slides

Using Online Discussion Forums to Enhance Student Engagement by Tauqir Bibi
From points of inflection to bones of contention: the birth of block designs, normed algebras, and finite geometries by Bud Brown and Adrian Rice
Mathematical Modeling for the (Mathematically) Faint of Heart by Jennifer Galovich
Some different applications of logarithms by Brian Heinold
Wittgenstein Was a Social Constructivist by Ilhan M. Izmirli
Teaching with Classroom Voting and Clickers by Jean McGivney-Burelle and Ann Stewart
A post BC calculus inquiry enrichment course by Robert Sachs
When Is a Cube Like a Tetrahedron? by Thomas Q. Sibley

Fall 2012 Meeting at the Virginia Military Institute

The symmetries of (7, 3, 1) by Bud Brown
The Wheels on the Bus ... or What Goes Around... by Barb Freeman
An Elementary Proof of the Mean Inequalities by Ilhan M. Izmirli
Technology in a Mathematics Classroom: Tablet PC’s, Moodle Integration, and Mathematica by Chris Lee
Suborders of Quadratic Polynomials Modulo Primes by Larry Lehman
Quantum Information: An Ongoing Research Program with Undergraduate Students by David W. Lyons
History the Hood Way by Amy Shell-Gellasch and Betty Mayfield
Two Musical Orderings by Marcus Pendergrass
Arms Race Example in Intro ODEs by David Shoenthal

Spring 2012 Meeting at Stevenson University

Sums of squares, the octonions, and (7, 3, 1) by Bud Brown
Cracking the Cubic: Cardano, Controversy, and Creasing by Alissa S. Crans
Stress On Analytical Reasoning (SOAR): Suggested Background Modules for Freshmen and handout by Jerome Dancis
MAA Tensor and Dolciani Grant Program by Caren Diefenderfer
Geometrical Representaton of Electon Results by Sophie Gorman
New Directions in Developmental Math by John Hamman
APEX Calculus: A Progress Report by Gregory Hartman
The Discrete Lambert Map by J. Chen and M. Lotts
Digging up the History of Our Section by Betty Mayfield and Jon Scott
Ye Olde Fundamental Theorem of Algebra by James Parson
The Impact of Post-Secondary Teaching Methods in Gen-Ed Math Courses by Wendy Hageman Smith
Occupy Phase Space: The Mathematics of Dissent and Suppression by Jeff Suzuki
A Classification of Quadratic Rook Polynomials by Alicia Velek and Samantha Tabackin
How Does the Postal Service Sort Mail? by Gwyn Whieldon

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