Featured Speakers

Jonathon Choate

Seeing is Believing? An Exeter Retrospective

Lots has happened in the teaching and learning of mathemtics since the first Exeter Math and Technology Conference and many of us got our first look at the new developments during  the conference. This talk will focus on a common thread which has been the use of computer graphics to make much of mathematics far more visual.

Dan Kennedy

A 25th Anniversary Retrospective on American High School Mathematics Education: Change We Could Sometimes Believe In

We will look at the evolution of secondary mathematics from the New Math to the present, revisiting all the highlights and lowlights that have made it such an exciting and turbulent era, and it will even take a tentative look at what the future might hold.

 

Zalman Usiskin

A Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum with CAS:  What Is It and What Would It Take To Have It Become Standard Practice?

Twenty-five years ago the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project was the first entity in the United States to be developing a full secondary school curriculum that assumed scientific calculators.  What was then considered revolutionary is now taken for granted.  Today UCSMP is completing the third edition of its curriculum for grades 6-12, a curriculum that assumes the existence of computer algebra systems (CAS) in all courses from first-year-algebra on, and others have been working on similar curricula.  This talk is about the perceptions that have to change about algebra in order for students everywhere to have the benefits of this technology.

Roderick Russell

One of only 50 living sword swallowers in the entire world, Roderick Russell has been described as strangely sophisticated, successfully blending suggestion and psychology with his own personal mind-over-body techniques to present a show that bravely pushes the limits of the possible - both physically and mentally. Presenting the most dangerous and bizarre feats with wit, charm and style, Roderick also deftly navigates deep into the minds of the audience to create the most personal and profound type of theater experience. Call him a sword swallower. Call him a mentalist. ABC News calls him a "rare find." National Public Radio says that it’s "not only the oddest event of the month, but probably the weirdest of the rest of the year." A bold, risky show - but what else would you expect from a sword swallower?

"The Real Deal!" - Maxim Magazine

"A very fine-tuned performance! You have pushed our program in new directions." - Aimee Petrin, Programming Manager Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

"One of the world's most bizarre and unusual people" - Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

"A bizarre encounter with a man who literally has a taste for the blade. A rare find!" - Chronicle

"Roderick delivers powerful entertainment in the fullest sense." - Robert E. Neale, Author, Magic and Meaning