New Perspectives in Mathematics Education: A Celebration in Honor of the Contributions of Joseph G. Rosenstein on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

March 16, 2002
Busch Campus Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Valerie DeBellis, East Carolina University, debellis@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Yakov Epstein, Rutgers University, yepstein@rci.rutgers.edu

Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Program:

7:30 - 8:30     Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 8:35     Welcome and Greeting: 
                Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS Director

8:35 - 8:40     Welcome and Greeting:
                Gerald A. Goldin, University Director, Science and Mathematics Partnerships

8:40 - 8:45	Opening Conference Remarks:
		Valerie A. DeBellis, Conference Chair, East Carolina University

8:45 - 9:25     Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Michigan State University
                Doing Mathematics Education Reform, Discreetly: 
                Lessons and Challenges 

9:30 - 10:10    Gerald Goldin, Rutgers University
                Systems of Representation for Mathematical Learning
                and Problem Solving

10:10 - 10:30   Break

10:30 - 11:00   Valerie DeBellis, East Carolina University
                Mathematical Problem Solving: A Dance Between Affect
                and Cognition

11:05 - 11:35   Claudia Pagliaro, University of Pittsburgh
                Problem Solving in Education of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing
                Students and the Impact of a Visual Language

11:40 - 12:10   Susan Picker, New York Public Schools
                An International Study of Student Images of Mathematicians

12:10 - 1:40    Lunch with open-microphone tributes to Joe Rosenstein

                Rick Falk, Rutgers University
                Greg Cherlin, Rutgers University
                Anil Nerode, Cornell University
                Janice Kowalczyk, Rutgers University
                Chuck Biehl, Charter School of Wilmington
                Warren Crown, Rutgers University
                Joe Malkevitch, York College (CUNY)

1:40 - 2:20     Margaret (Midge) Cozzens, University of Colorado, Denver, 
                and Colorado Institute of Technology
                Teaching, Learning, and the Role of Assessment

2:25 - 3:25     DEBATE

                What is -- or what should be -- the responsibility
                of mathematics departments with respect to mathematics
                education? What impediments exist within colleges that make
                it difficult for math departments to play this role and
                how can they be overcome? Should they be overcome?

                Carole Lacampagne, National Academy of Sciences

                Roger Howe, Yale University

                Alfred Manaster, University of California - San Diego

3:25 - 3:45     Break

3:45 - 4:25     Henry Pollak, Teachers College, Columbia
                A Recent History of the Teaching of Mathematical Modeling

4:30 - 5:10     Joseph G. Rosenstein, Rutgers University
                Mathematical Problem Solving: A Personal Perspective

5:10 - 6:30     Wine and Cheese Reception with Presentations

Next: Registration

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