2008 ORMATYC Conference Program

Thursday	Balboa (1^st floor)	Cortez (1^st floor)	El Toro III (4^th floor)	Suite 620 (6^th floor)
6:00–7:15pm	Registration – El Toro I
7:30–8:30pm	Opening Session, El Toro:          Charlie Naffziger Site-Swaps: Connecting Mathematics, Juggling, and "Art"
8:30–11:00pm				Hosted Social Brittney Bent- Cengage Learning Peter Harris-Pearson Education
Friday
7:30–8:45am	Breakfast Buffet – Dining Room (10^th floor)                 Registration – El Toro I
9:00–10:00am	Using A Student Contract and MyMathLab To Motivate Developmental Mathematics Students George Woodbury College of the Sequoias Mark Yanotta	Fibonacci-Like Number Patterns and Microcosmic Signatures Within the Mandelbrot Fractal Art Peck Lane CC Lorna TenEyck	Math’s best kept secret: Multiplying by one Wes Bruning Clackamas CC Jennifer Schmidt	Extending Academic Support: Support Resources Beyond the Campus Walls John Huber SMARTHINKING
10:00–10:30am	Break:  Hosted Refreshments  WH Freeman & Worth Publishers  — El Toro I
10:30–11:30am	Using Artificial Intelligence to Increase Algebra Readiness Scott Wallace Carnegie Learning, Inc Rebecca Plassmann	The Beautiful, Magical, and Romantic Mathematics of Sunsets Farshad Barman Portland CC Jerry Kissick	Making Math Palatable Tambi Boyle Mt Hood CC Angela Martinez	Bridging the Gap: Reaching Students Through Online Tutoring Garth Fleming Chemeketa CC Drake Wallick
11:45–1:30pm	Lunch Buffet—El Toro
1:30–2:30pm	Introduction to group theory using guided reinvention Sean Larsen Mark Yannotta Portland State University Phyllis Leonard	History of Mathematics; a review of two famous problems James Ballard Oregon Institute of Technology Bill Jennings	Mathematics for Elem Ed Teachers: Resources and Class Organization Ideas Laurie Burton Western Oregon University Dee Winn	Using Artificial Intelligence to Increase Algebra Readiness Scott Wallace Carnegie Learning, Inc Matthew Funk
2:30–3:00pm	Break
3:00–4:00pm	Some Reflections about Teaching the Introductory Statistics Course Alan Agresti University of Florida Alice Kaseberg	Creating a Community in Your Mathematics Classroom to Increase Student Success George Woodbury College of the Sequoias Kathy Smith	Why Can’t Johnny Do Word Problems Sharon Newton Oregon Coast CC Margaret Stevens	Activate Student Interest Using the ClassPad Diane Whitfield Casio MRD Center
4:00–6:30pm				Hosted Social Rachael Avery - Houghton Mifflin Company Peggy Lucas – McGraw Hill
Saturday
7:30–9:00am	Breakfast Buffet —El Toro   ORMATYC General Business Meeting: 8:00am—El Toro
9:30–10:30am	Solving the Homework Problem:  Is Web-Based Homework the Solution? Jim Fischer Oregon Institute of Technology Jerry Kissick	Understanding how to use CAS commands in teaching is important.  Hideshi Fukaya Casio MRD Center Dennis Reynolds	Grasp the Math with the New Ti-Nspire Paul Riopel Texas Instruments	How to Motivate Students by Using Software Jordan Enzor  Hawkes Learning Systems Drake Wallick
10:30–11:00am	Break – Hosted Refreshments  Casio  — El Toro I
11:00–Noon	An Easy Solution to the General Cubic Geza Laszlo Tillamook Bay CC Ronda Kingstad	Fibonacci-Like Number Patterns and Microcosmic Signatures Within the Mandelbrot Fractal Art Peck Lane CC H David Reynolds	TI-Nspire CAS:  Making Microworlds Tom Dick, from OSU and Lewis Lum from UP Kathy Smith	Elementary School Teachers Discussion Group Gary Parker & Cathy Muller Blue Mountain CC
Noon–2:00pm	Lunch Buffet and Keynote Speaker—El Toro Poll trends and statistics Tim Hibbitts Davis, Hibbitts, and Midgdall Inc Portland, OR

*** Names in red are the session presiders.