NIESU Mathematics Panel

MATHEMATICS TEACHERS' CONFERENCE

AND PROBLEM SOLVING COMPETITION

1999
 
 

SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 1999

at

UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, JORDANSTOWN
 
 

Faculty of Informatics, Room 16G42

PROGRAMME


 


9 00 Registration

9 30 Introduction

9 45 Start of Students' Problem Solving Competition

10 00 Keynote address Professor John Berry, University of Plymouth

"What Mathematics do I really need to teach?" asks the teacher

"What Mathematics do I really need to learn?" asks the student

Prof. Berry is currently President of the Mathematical Association and co-ordinator of the Texas Instruments T3Europe project. Thids session will include an introduction to the TI-89 graphical calculator which has a built in computer albegra system.

11 00 Coffee

11 30 Follow up discussion and opportunity for teachers to get hands- on experience of the TI-89, and also to try the problems given to students in the parallel problem solving competition.

12 30 Lunch

1 00 Debriefing and Maths is Fun closing lecture

1 30 Presentation of Prizes