Correction: the webinar room is https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008350&password=M.D5176DFCA66A74E3F55867FA87018F
Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Maria Droujkova <droujk...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Wednesday, February 24th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public > Elluminate room at 6:30pm Pacific / 9:30pm Eastern time: > https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=lcevents&password=Webinar_Guest > > This event, in the Research, Grants and Publications Track, is devoted to > the Math in Computer Science community. As a part of the introduction, Maria > Droujkova will interview Peter Henderson, a co-founder of the community, > about their history, goals and projects. We will then take a look at an > active K-12 group within the community, The Teach Group, with Rex Page > answering questions about it. We may touch on some of the currently "hot" > controversies within the community, such as roles of procedural and > functional programming in helping students understand mathematics. > > More information from the community's site http://www.math-in-cs.org/ What > we are Mathematical reasoning is central to computer science. It should > therefore be an integral part of the entire CS curriculum, with special > emphasis in the early courses. This would be a deviation from current > practice, requiring systemic change in CS education. We are a group of > computer scientists, mathematicians, and others interested in fostering such > change. > The group "meets" (via > e-mail<http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/math-thinking-l/>), > to discuss topics related to mathematical reasoning in CS and its teaching. > An archive <http://mail.geneseo.edu/pipermail/math-thinking-l/> of these > discussions is available on-line. Possible topics include, but are not > limited to, which mathematical concepts are relevant, when and how they > can/should be introduced and reinforced in the curriculum, how they relate > to practice, pedagogical approaches to teaching math foundations, supporting > laboratories, etc. We are undertaking concrete projects designed to raise > awareness of mathematical reasoning in CS and of ways of teaching it. > > Events where community members meet > > - CCSC:MW <http://www.ccsc.org/midwest/conference/>, the 16th annual > Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Midwestern conference, Oct. > 9- > 10, 2009, St. Xavier University, Chicago, IL, USA. > - CCSC:NW <http://www.ccsc.org/northwest/>, the 11th annual Consortium > for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwestern conference, Oct. 9 - 10, > 2009, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, USA. > - OOPSLA 2009 <http://www.oopsla.org/oopsla2009/>, the 2009 ACM/SIGPLAN > Object Oriented Programming Languages Systems and Applications conference, > Oct. 25 - 29, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA. > - CCSC:E <http://ccsce09.villanova.edu/>, the 25th annual Consortium > for Computing Sciences in Colleges Eastern Conference, Oct. 30 - 31, 2009, > Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA. > - SIGCSE 2010 <http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2010/>, the 41st ACM > Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Mar. 10 - 13, 2010, > Milwaukee, WI, USA. > - CCSC:CP <http://www.ccsc.org/centralplains/>, the 16th Annual > Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Central Plains Conference, > April 9 - 10, 2010, Park University, Parkville, Missouri, USA. > - ACMSE<http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/acmse2010/Call_for_Participation.htm>, > the 48th ACM Southeast Conference, April 15 - 17, 2010, Oxford, > Mississippi, > USA. > - ICSE 2010 <http://www.sbs.co.za/ICSE2010/>, the 32nd International > Conference on Software Engineering, May 2 - 10, 2010, Cape Town, South > Africa. > - PLDI 2010 <http://cs.stanford.edu/pldi10/>, the 2010 ACM/SIGPLAN > Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 5 - 10, > 2010, Toronto, Canada. > > > Cheers, > Maria Droujkova > http://www.naturalmath.com > > Make math your own, to make your own math. > > >
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