Dana Center's Annual Mathematics and Science Higher Education Conference (October Conference)
October 26–28, 2006
The 2006 conference, "Ensuring College Readiness in Mathematics and Science," offered sessions that focused on what it means to be college-ready in mathematics and science, alignment K–16 from both the national and state perspectives, teaching and assessing for student conceptual understanding, using technology in teaching and learning, and ways to integrate mathematics and science concepts in teaching.
This year's conference again included sessions for Teacher Quality grant recipients—both current and past awardees as well as those who may want to apply in the future.
Invitation (pdf 76kb)
Agenda (pdf 580kb)
Teacher Quality Agenda (pdf 188kb)
Selected presentations from the 2006 conference:
Thursday, October 26
Gerald Wheeler, NSTA Executive Director. Welcome and Opening Session (pdf 108kb)
Stephen Colbert on the Fields medal (video hosted by YouTube)
Friday, October 27
Mike Cohen, Achieve Inc.
Uri Treisman, Charles A. Dana Center.
- Building on Success: Taking the Next Steps in Strengthening Texas STEM Education (pdf 796kbb)
- Ma and Pa Kettle Math Lesson (video hosted by YouTube)
G. Donald Allen, Texas A&M University; Linda Reichwein Zientek, Blinn College; and Mel Griffin, Texas A&M University.
- College Algebra Across Texas—Survey Results (pdf 896kb)
Rob MacDuff, Arizona State University.
- Mind, Mathematics & Science: Modeling an Integrated Approach (pdf 524kb)
- Pre-Algebra First Quarter Test (pdf 60kb)
Susan Hudson Hull, Charles A. Dana Center.
Lesa Beverly, Stephen F. Austin State University.
Cynthia L. Schneider and Vanessa Westbrook, Charles A. Dana Center.
- Writing for the State Journals (pdf 1.2mb)
Don French, Oklahoma State University, and Connie Russell, Angelo State University.
- Using Inquiry to Teach Science (pdf 7.1mb)
Mike Field, University of Houston.
- Motivating Mathematics: Why? How? (pdf 17.7mb)
- Hyperseeing, the newsletter of the International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture
- How Can Art Contribute to the Teaching of Mathematics? (pdf 60kb)
- Mathematics Through Art—Art Through Mathematics (pdf 3.8mb)
- On Common Ground, Spring 2005 (pdf 1.2mb), a publication of the Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute
Jan Morrison, Teaching Institute for Essential Science.
- Designing Professional Development Institutes (pdf 408kb)
Bambi Bailey, Midwestern State University.
- The Joys and Challenges of NSTA Student Chapters (pdf 4.9mb)
Saturday, October 28
Sam Zigrossi, Charles A. Dana Center.
- Teaching in the 21st Century (pdf 2.9mb)
Scott S. Floyd, White Oak Independent School District.
- Extending Classroom Conversations: Using Web 2.0—Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, & RSS (pdf 13.5mb)
- URLs Handout (pdf 64kb)
Steve Fletcher, St. Edward's University.
- Death to PowerPoint! Appropriate Technology in the Contemporary Science Classroom (pdf 112kb)
- Preparing Tomorrow's Science Teachers to Use Technology: Guidelines for Science Educators (at the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education website)
- Collection of Simulation Websites (pdf 1.3mb)
Gloria White, Charles A. Dana Center.
- Closing the Gaps by 2015 (pdf 400kb)
- Texas College Readiness Data (pdf 744kb)