The Tucson Teachers' Circle Sessions
Middle School Teachers' Circle
Fall 2010 through Spring 2011
Tues, September 14 - Brie Finegold presented Mathematics Symmetry & Beauty in Origami.
Tues, October 19 - Victor Piercey and Priya Prasad presented Helping Students to Overcome Math Anxiety.
Wed, November 3 - Cody Patterson presented How To Become Wiser By Forgetting Things: The Power of Modular Arithmetic.
Sat, January 22 - MEAD Conference: 71 sessions were presented on a wide variety of topics.
Thurs, February 10 - Carrie Wright presented The Fibonacci Sequence.
Thurs, March 3 - Ginny Bohme presented An Introduction to Fractals.
Thurs, April 7 - Erin Militzer and Matt Benander presented Mathematical Games
Fall 2009 through Spring 2010
September 15- Math Olympiads
presented by Susan Norton-Scott
October 6- Squares within Squares
presented by Dr. Fred Stevenson
November 3- Using Algebra Blocks for Teaching Middle School Mathematics:
Exploring a Variety of Topics presented by Cynthia Anhalt
January 30- Proof by Crayon presented by Ji Li and Ginny Bohme.
February 9- A Historical Look at Multiplication Methods
presented by Dr. Dan Madden
March 9- Dissect, Rearrange, and Motivate- Area Explorations of
2-dimensional Figures presented by Jen Eli
April 6- The Data Says What?! presented by Sarah Hoffman
Fall 2008 through Spring 2009
Dr. Phil Grizzard presented
Engaging Number Theory Problems September 10, 2008
Dr. Nate Carlson and Ginny Bohme presented
Pascal's Triangle October 8, 2008
Dr. Joe Watkins presented
A Mathematician Goes to Indonesia November 19, 2008
Dr. Nate Carlson and Ginny Bohme presented
Great Expectations January 24, 2009
Dr. Ji Li and Ginny Bohme
Ropin'in the Mathematics February 19, 2009
Alyssa Keri presented
Recursive Patterns March 26, 2009
Dr. Carrie Wright presented
Symmetry Explorations April 23, 2009
Fall 2007 through Spring 2008
Dr. Fred Stevenson presented
Exploratory Problems September 19, 2007
Dr. David Gay presented
Geometry Models October 17, 2007
Dr. Rebecca McGraw presented
Geometry Investigations Using Geometer's Sketchpad November 14, 2007
Nate Carlson and Ginny Bohme presented
Chinese New Year and Other Number Patterns January 26, 2008
Dr. Sybilla Beckmann Kazez introduced Singapore Math- Using Strip Diagrams to Solve Problems.February 27, 2008
Dr. Bill McCallum presented
Great Issues of Our Time: The Quadratic Formula March 26, 2008
Dr. Paul Zeitz taught Rigged Games for the Mathematics Classroom. April 17, 2008
High School Teachers' Circle
Fall 2010 through Spring 2011
Tues, September 21 - Ron Hopley presented Platonic Solids- How they really relate.
Tues, October 26 - Barbara Shipman from Univ. of Texas presented Patterns in Counting.
Wed, November 17 - Prof. Juan Restrepo presented The Mathematics of Climate and Global Change.
Sat, January 22 - MEAD Conference: 71 sessions were presented on a wide variety of topics.
Thurs, February 17 - Matt Thomas presented Exploding Dots.
Thurs, March 10 - Canceled due to illness
Thurs, April 28 - Cody Patterson presented Cody's Donut Shop and the Mathematics of Choice.
Fall 2009 through Spring 2010
September 22- Nature's Golden Rule
presented by Dr. Joceline Lega
October 20- Mathematical Games
presented by Nate Carlson
November 17- Flatland and Multi-Dimensions presented by Prof. Tom Banchoff from Brown University
January 30- Preferred Parking Perplexity presented by Ji Li and Ginny Bohme.
February 16- Understanding Some of the Statistics Behind the U.S. Census presented by Walter Piegorsch
March 23- The MATRIX Re-adjacent, presented by Phil Grizzard
April 13- Biology ↔ Mathematics: An Educational Dilemma for the 21st Century, presented by Chris Bergevin
Spring 2009
Dr. Nate Carlson and Ginny Bohme presented
Catalan Numbers January 24, 2009
Dr. Fred Stevenson presented
Transcendental Numbers and More February 12, 2009
Dr. Bill McCallum presented presented
Error-Coding Messages March 12, 2009
Dr. Deb Hughes-Hallett presented
Decision Analysis April 16, 2009
