Rachel Van Herk, Honour Bachelor of Science, Math & Stats co-op student, one of our recipients for the “Co-op Students of the Year” award at Brock, is the winner for the Provincial “Co-op Student of the Year” award this year. All the recipients for our “Co-op Students of the Year” awards will be announced next week during the National Co-op & Work Integrated Learning week. MARCOM is running a story of Rachel which will be live on Brock News next Monday. Congratulations to Rachel!
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Brock International Number Theory Conference II
Brock International Number Theory Conference II
Celebrating the 70th birthday of Professor Mohamed Ayad
May 2-3, 2019
Organizer: Omar Kihel
Plenary speakers:
Henri Darmon, McGill University, Canada
Ram Murty, Queens University, Canada
Invited speakers:
Saban Alaca, Carleton University, Canada
Farid Bencherif, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
Boualem Benseba, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
Nacira Berbara, USTHB, Algeria
Pierre Debes, Université de Lille, France
Karl Dilcher, Dalhousie University, Canada
Peter Fleischmann, University of Kent, England
Takao Komatsu, Wuhan University, China
Claude Levesque, Université Laval, Canada
Sukrawan Mavecha, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
Ayad Mohamed, Université du Littoral à Calais, Calais, France
Kumar Murty, Toronto University, Canada
Djiby Sow, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Abdelmoumen Zekiri, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
For those who wish to present a contributed talk (20 minutes, questions included) please send the abstract (pdf and source file) by e-mail to: okihel@brocku.ca before April 03, 2019.
Registration fee $U 70. (will cover refreshments during breaks and a reception on May 2, 2019).
There is no registration fee for invited speakers.
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Our Prospective Math Teachers Integrating Programming in Niagara School Classrooms
As part of a new experiential learning component to MATH 3P41, the MICA III course for future math teachers taught by Professor Chantal Buteau, students paired with Niagara Catholic District School Board teachers in order to develop and implement programming-based math activities in the classroom.
Their work is now available online for other teachers to use:
http://mkn-rcm.ca/brock-u-ncdsb-ct-math-tasks/
The collaborative initiative with Niagara Catholic falls under, and is partially funded by, the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Mathematics Knowledge Network, for which Buteau is a Brock representative.
For the full article in Brock news:
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Colloquium Talk: Vitali Vougalter
Department of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium Talk
Vitali Vougalter
University of Toronto
Department of Mathematics
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
15:00 – 16:00
MCJ404
On the well-posedness of the magnetic, semi-relativistic Schrodinger-Poisson system
Abstract:
We prove global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the Schrodinger-Poisson system in the repulsive Coulumb case with relativistic, magnetic kinetic energy
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Congratulations to Professor Xioajian Xu and Professor Chantal Buteau
We congratulate Professor Xu and Professor Buteau who were both recently promoted to Full Professor.
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Our Prospective Math Teachers Integrating Programming in Niagara School Classrooms
As part of a new experiential learning component to MATH 3P41, the MICA III course for future math teachers taught by Professor Chantal Buteau, students paired with Niagara Catholic District School Board teachers in order to develop and implement programming-based math activities in the classroom.
The collaborative initiative with Niagara Catholic falls under, and is partially funded by, the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Mathematics Knowledge Network, for which Buteau is a Brock representative.
For the full article in Brock news:
https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2018/05/students-introduce-innovative-ways-to-make-math-fun/
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OAME Golden Section Spring Conference
Golden Section of OAME, Brock University’s Faculty of Mathematics
and Science, Faculty of Education, and Department of Mathematicspresent
The OAME Golden Section Spring Conference
Ahead by a Century . . . Strategies for Keeping You on the Cutting Edge
Thursday April 19, 2018
Session A: 4:00pm – 5:15pm
A1: Teaching Mathematics Through Inquiry/Project Based Learning
Presenter: Gillian Berard & Mary Vetere, NCDSBA2: The Great Escape!
Presenter: Laura Cronshaw & Jaime Rootes, NCDSBA3: How Problem Solving Supports Differentiated Instruction in the Mathematics Classroom
Presenter: Melissa Wigglesworth & Kim Cruise, NCDSBA3.14: Special Education Through the Lens of the Renewed Mathematics Strategy
Presenter: Anthony DiToro, NCDSBA4: Creating a Thinking Classroom . . . One Step at a Time
Presenters: Tricia Brenneman, Elizabeth Pattison, DSBNA5: Ideas for MAT 1LK and MAT 2LK
Presenter: Pamela Chun, DSBNA6: A Fresh Look at Diagnostic Assessments (Grade 9)
Presenter: Jeff Martin, NCDSBA7: I Want to Learn Geogebra . . . Help!!!
Presenter: Angelo Lillo, DSBNSession B: 5:30pm – 6:45pm
B1: Mathematics Through a Leadership Lens
Presenter: Chris Moscato, NCDSBB2: Fractions in Pieces
Presenters: Susan Ume, NCDSBB3: Growth Mindset in the Primary Mathematics Classroom
Presenters: Luana Kent, NCDSBB4: Creating a Thinking Classroom . . . One Step at a Time
Presenters: Tricia Brenneman & Elizabeth Pattison , DSBNB5: Strands? Expectations? Categories? How Do I Record Marks When I Spiral With Activities?
Presenters: Alison Pridham & Deanna Ward , DSBNB6: Breaking Away from a Workbook in MEL3E/4E
Presenter: Danielle Grebenc, DSBNB7: MCF3M – The Middle Child
Presenter: Jennifer Corbett, DSBNRegistration Information
All registration will be done electronically at www.oame.on.ca/mcis
Sign in, click on Choose Conference, then click on Online Registration for Golden Mini-Conference 2018.
If you have questions regarding registration, please e-mail: liisa.suurtamm@dsbn.org
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Brock-NCDSB Computational Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom
Brock-NCDSB Computational Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom
April 20, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Brock University room TH 253
We are happy to invite you to attend the Brock-NCDSB Computational Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom event at education which our MATH 3P41 future mathematics teachers will briefly present the programming-based mathematics tasks developed in collaboration with NCDSB teachers.
This new collaborative initiative falls under the Ontario Ministry of Education-funded Mathematics Knowledge Network (http://mkn-rcm.ca), more particularly as part of the Computational Thinking group (http://mkn-rcm.ca/ct/). For Brock University, it is an experiential learning component newly integrated to one of its course offering (i.e. MATH 3P41).
KEYNOTE by Dr George Gadanidis (UWO)
Co-Director of Mathematics Knowledge Network and a Canadian leader in the area of computational
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Math Ed Seminar Series @ Brock: Dr. Anjali Khirwadkar
Math Ed Seminar Series @ Brock
Season 2017- 2018
Elementary School Mathematics Education in India:
Implications for Teacher Training programs for
Mathematics TeachersApril 2 @ 10:00 in TA403
Dr. Anjali Khirwadkar
Faculty of Education (Brock University)Abstract: Education in India is undergoing a change as per the global demands and expectations
from the future citizens. There are efforts to bring in quality in teaching Science, Mathematics in
the country by harnessing the advantages of the technology. More recently, two prominent policies
of the Indian government—the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in 2001 and the Right to Education
(RTE) Act, 2009 have seen education priorities rise amongst the countrymen. It is essential that
children right in the primary and elementary stage develop interest in learning mathematics. It is
the teacher who can bring change in inclination towards learning mathematics. This paper
highlights some key factors to be considered in teacher preparation program in the country
especially for training mathematics teachers.For information, contact: Chantal Buteau: cbuteau@brocku.ca or Joyce Mgombelo: Joyce.Mgombelo@brocku.ca
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Math Ed Seminar Series @ Brock: Dr. Joyce Mgombelo
Math Ed Seminar Series @ Brock
Season 2017- 2018
Collective Learning: Re-thinking the Environment, Artifacts and
Classroom InteractionsMarch 19 @ 10:00 in TA403
Dr. Joyce Mgombelo
Faculty of Education, Brock UniversityDr. Joyce Mgombelo is an Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Brock University. Her
research program focuses on: mathematics cognition; identity; and ethics- based on principles of
human cognition. This work is developed from the theoretical perspectives of enactivism, complexity
science and psychoanalysis. Mgombelo’s most recent work includes the SSHRC funded collaborative
research projects, “Educating for the 21st Century: post-secondary students learning ‘progmatics’
(computer programming for mathematical investigation, simulation, and real-world modeling)” and
“Advancing research methodology in mathematics education for collective learning systems” as well
as the Canada Global Affairs collaborative development project, “Capacity Development for
mathematics teaching in rural and remote communities in Tanzania”Abstract: Over the past two decades, a group of Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group
(CMESG) members have been working on understanding the ways in which mathematics learning
occurs in classrooms viewed as collective systems. That is, how mathematics classrooms can be seen
as complex systems in which agents spontaneously interact and adapt to each other, organizing and
sustaining learning processes in a collaborative way. In this presentation I will offer a discussion about
how artifacts such as classroom boards play a vital role in the coordination of behaviours or actions in
a mathematics classroom viewed as a complex system. The source of inspiration for this discussion
comes from studies in cognitive stigmergy which have led to a better understanding of how (human)
agents in a complex system communicate indirectly through their environment which is articulated,
and is typically composed of artifacts, which build up the social workspace, or field of work.All undergraduate(including teacher candidates) students, graduate students , and faculty, from Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Faculty of Education are welcome!
For information, contact: Chantal Buteau: cbuteau@brocku.ca or Joyce Mgombelo: Joyce.Mgombelo@brocku.ca