I am involved in
several projects and areas of professional service that might be of interest
to others. Please follow the given link or contact me if you have any
questions or comments.
Technology in Teaching
and Learning
Flash
- PI on NSF grant to produce interactive material for teaching proof in a Discrete Math context. The mateiral can be found at http://webspace.ship.edu/deensley/DiscreteMath/
- Co-PI (with Barbara Kaskosz of the University of Rhode Island) on NSF grant to produce tutorials and training on Flash for math and science educational devel0plers.
- Co-Founder(with Barbara Kaskosz of the University of Rhode Island) of the website http://www.flashandmath.com for dissemination of grant materials and establishment of a community of Flash developers of math and science applications.
Creating Online
Material
- Presentation on Javascript
- Presentation
at NSF DUE PI's Meeting
Maple material
- "Maple Programming
for Creative Classroom Capsules," article for SSHE Technology
Conference
- Presentations and Minicourses on Maple programming
basics and using Maple for hands-on activities in Discrete Math
Flash pages
for active exploration in Discrete Math
Mathematical Association
of America
MathDL
- Editor of the
Digital Classroom Resources
- Member of the
MathDL Advisory Board
Project NExT
- NExT Fellow 1994-95
(Red Dot)
- Presenter for
sectional breakout sessions, as well as national sessions on Life after Tenure,
Documenting Good Teaching, Motivating Students, and Discrete Mathematics.
- Coordinator for
EPADEL Section Project NExT
Eastern Pennsylvania
and Delaware Section
- Governor 2004-2007
- President 1999-2001
- Vice President
1997-1999
- Coordinator of
Visiting Lecturer and Consultant Program 1994 - 1997
MAA Committees
- Coordinating
Council on Meetings (CCM)
- Subcommittee
- Council on Publications
- Past chair of the James R. Leitzel
Lecture Committee
- Past member of the Committee on
Technology in Mathematics Education (CTIME)
Referee and Correspondent
- Referee for Mathematics
Magazine
- Referee for College
Math Journal's Classroom Capsules
- Correspondent
for College Math Journal's Media Highlights
Web Special Interest
Group
The MAA Special
Interest Group on the Use of the Web in Mathematics (Web SIGMAA) is
just forming, thanks to the efforts of Kirby Baker of UCLA and others.
Mathematics and Teaching
Discrete Math textbook
- Published in 2006 by John Wiley & Sons.
- Sample chapters
- Companion web
site
Papers related
to recreational mathematics
- "Card Unshuffling
for the Imperfect Mathemagician,"Mathematics
Magazine, 2003.
- "Fibonacci's
triangle and other abominations," Math Horizons, 2003.
- "Math for
the Fun of It," in Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, Spring
2001.
- "Invariants
under group actions to amaze your friends," in Mathematics
Magazine, December 1999.
Programs for gifted
children
- Pennsylvania
Governor's School for the Sciences
- Pennsylvania
Association for Gifted Education (PAGE)
- Infinity Gifted
Program
Undergraduate Research
Problems
- Properties of
card shuffling in magic tricks
- Fibonacci bracelets
- Cryptology
- Mathematics and Music
- The Math 24 game
- The Josephus
Problem
- Pascal's triangle mod n
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