MER Workshops

A MER Forum workshop is an opportunity for mathematicians, mathematics educators, college administrators and other interested people engaged in a particular educational endeavor to gather together to discuss the issues, showcase exemplary programs and share resources.

Since 1988, MER has organized thirty-one workshops centered around the issues of mathematicians and education reform. Over 1250 mathematicians, mathematics educators, pre-college teachers and administrators have attended these workshops. These workshops are listed on this page and there are links for more information about upcoming workshops.

Dec. 1-4, 2005 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ
Funding for this workshop is provided by the national Science Foundation. Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Mobilizing for the Furture

The final in a series of workshops from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , is designed to highlight the what departments have been accomplished in the past four years, and look at future visions for undergraduate education.  A special session on Sunday morning will be devoted to organizing on-going networks to support departments in their continued efforts to create and maintain vigorous undergraduate mathematics programs..

March 25-28, 2004 Loras College Dubuque, Iowa

Funding for this workshop is provided by the national Science Foundation.
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Mainstreaming in-depth mathematical experiences for students

The sixth in a series of workshops from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , is designed to highlight the resources and expertise within the mathematics community -- gained from running extra-curricular programs, and developing innovative courses-- for fostering students' mathematical thinking, and challenge departments to adapt these ideas to mainstream undergraduate mathematics.

Sept. 11-14, 2003 University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Lessons Across the Curriculum

The fifth in a series of workshops from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , focused on two issues that span the undergraduate program: (a) increasing the participation of under-represented groups in undergraduate mathematics, and (b) learning from assessment, including the assessment of programs aimed at promoting the participation of under-represented groups

March 13-16, '03 Ithaca College Ithaca, New York
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Mathematics for Teachers and Mathematics for Teaching

The fourth in a series of workshops from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , is designed to consider the mathematical content knowledge and mathematical skills future teachers should learn, appropriate ways to teach mathematics to future teachers, and the relationships between undergraduate mathematics and school mathematics.

Nov. 7-10, 2002 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Diversification of Upper Level Mathematics Programs

The third in a series of workshops from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , is designed to consider ways to configure and develop courses and programs in upper level mathematics to engage more students at an advance undergraduate level.

May 2-5, 2002 Washington University St. Louis, Missouri
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Mathematics for the Non-Traditional Major

The second in a series of workshops from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , featured concerns for students seeking a non-traditional mathematics major.

Dec. 6-9, 2001 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Mathematics for the "Rest of Us"

The first in a series of workshop from the joint AMS-MER project, Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics: Confronting Diverse Student Interests , featured concerns for those undergraduate students who do not intend to take Calculus.

Oct. 18-20, 2001 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
Professional Masters Degrees in Teaching Mathematics: Exploring Options in Teacher Education
The last workshop in a series of three workshops that were part of a AMS-MER-SIAM joint project, funded by NSF, to support the development of professional masters degrees in mathematics. This final workshop centered on developing new and revamping existing masters degrees for teaching mathematics.
Nov. 4-6, 1999 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
Developing Professional Masters Degrees In Mathematics:
Exploring Options in Graduate Education
 
Co-sponsored with AMS and SIAM
Nov. 5-7, 1998
New York University
New York
Developing Professional Masters Degrees In Mathematics:
Exploring Options in Graduate Education
 
Co-sponsored with AMS and SIAM
May 8-10, 1998 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago
Developing Leadership in Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Education

Organized for the NSF funded Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation Projects

March, 1997 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fourth Annual MER Department Network Workshop

November, 1996 University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago
Teacher Education in Mathematics Departments

 

March, 1996 University of Maryland College Park, Maryland
Third Annual MER Department Network Workshop

 

May, 1995 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara
Second Annual MER Department Network Workshop

 

November, 1995 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Curricular Reform in Mathematics: Issues, Content, and Implications

 

November, 1994 Southern University Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Second Workshop on Preparation for Teaching Mathematics

 

May, 1994 University of Texas, Austin Austin, Texas
Invitational workshop to establish the MER Department Network

 

November, 1993 RPI Troy, New York
Preparation for Teaching Mathematics: Issues, Policies and Programs

Co-sponsored with AMTE

July-August, 1993 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
Second Workshop on Calculus Reform: Issues, Policies and Programs

 

March 4-7, 1993 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California
Changing Culture: Mathematics Education in the Research Community

Second Joint Workshop co-sponsored by AMS, MAA, SIAM, MSRI,
UC Berkeley Mathematics Department, UC Office of the President

November, 1992 Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey
Mathematics Education Reform: Issues, Policies and Programs

 

July-August, 1992 Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine
Calculus Reform: Issues, Policies, and Programs

 

March, 1992 University of California, Berkeley Oakland/Berkeley
Changing the Culture: Education and the Research Community

Joint Workshop co-sponsored by AMS, MAA, SIAM, MSRI,
UC Berkeley Mathematics Department, UC Office of the President

May-June, 1991

University of Washington Seattle
March, 1991

University of Arizona Tucson  
June, 1990

Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
Invitational, aimed at the research community
March, 1990

Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
July, 1989

University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota
May, 1989

University of California Berkeley Berkeley, California
July, 1988

University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago

Funding for these workshops was provided by the National Science Foundation

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Last update: Oct. 14, 2003
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