35th annual ICTCM
Denver, CO | March 16–18, 2023
ICTCM 2023
35 years: Countless connections | The premier conference where math & statistics faculty collaborate and explore together.
International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics | ICTCM 2023
Join us in March for ICTCM 2023 and discover digital technologies that extend, connect, and expand learning experiences in new ways, strengthening connections between learners and educators.
Whether you teach precalculus, statistics, teacher preparation, or differential equations, ICTCM has something for you. You’ll return to your classroom ready to apply new skills, integrate educational technology into your course, and inspire students in fresh ways.
2023 host institution: Metropolitan State University of Denver
Conference Chair: Elizabeth Ribble, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Professor of Statistics
Keynote speakers
Friday, March 17, 8:00 AM MST
Chris Wiggins
How Can We Prepare Today's Students for their Data-empowered Futures? What should future statisticians, CEOs, and senators know about the history and ethics of data.
Automated and algorithmic decision systems will increasingly shape their realities, as citizens and employees in quantified workplaces and data-conversant environments. This talk will introduce lessons learned in the creation of a class at Columbia which takes a historical approach to engaging with data, both critically (in readings and discussion) and functionally (in computational "labs”, written in Python and which pair with the readings). The class is taught without prerequisites, aimed at training future statisticians in the context of data as well as future product developers and policy makers as to how best to understand data and data practitioners.
Materials from the course can be found here; the syllabus closely mirrors the forthcoming book "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" to be published by Norton Press in March 2023.
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times. At Columbia he is a founding member of the executive committee of the Data Science Institute, and of the Department of Systems Biology, and is affiliated faculty in Statistics. He is a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY, a nonprofit which since 2010 has organized once a semester student hackathons, and the hackNY Fellows Program, a structured summer internship at NYC startups. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia he was a Courant Instructor at NYU (1998–2001) and earned his PhD at Princeton University (1993–1998) in theoretical physics.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and is a recipient of Columbia’s Avanessians Diversity Award.
Saturday, March 18, 8:00 AM MST
Video-Guided Learning in Collegiate Mathematics
Authors Jason Gregersen, Rachel Vincent-Finley, and Herb Kunze will discuss current best practices and research on the use of videos in mathematics courses. The team will discuss the evolution, equitability, and pedagogical benefits of videos as well as video use across various modes of teaching.
Rachel Vincent-Finley
Rachel Vincent-Finley earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Bryn Mawr College and master's and doctoral degrees in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University.
Rachel Vincent-Finley joined the faculty at Southern University and A&M College in 2009 and now serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Sciences and Engineering. Her service to the state of Louisiana includes appointments on the Louisiana Optical Network Infrastructure (LONI) Management Council and the LaSTEM Advisory Council. Her general research interests include numerical analysis with applications to molecular biophysics and materials science.
Dr. Vincent-Finley’s education and outreach efforts include broadening participation in STEM and enhancing the connections between higher education and industry through workforce development partnerships.
Herb Kunze
Herb Kunze is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Students and colleagues have been very kind in commenting on and supporting his teaching: he has received institutional and provincial teaching awards, and he has been an invited speaker, including as a keynote, at teaching conferences. He is known for his informal "office hours" held in the University Center at a round table that students have nicknamed "the Circle of Herb." His love of teaching drives everything he does, including his active research in applied analysis and his faculty association work.
Jason Gregersen
Jason Gregersen received a bachelor's in mathematics education from Northern Michigan University in 2009 and a master's in applied mathematics from Michigan Technological University in 2011. Since 2011 he has been teaching at Michigan Technological University where he is currently an Associate Teaching Professor primarily teaching calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations. His primary area of interest is in finding new ways to integrate technology into education, in order to increase student engagement and add authentic applications into the curriculum.
35 year history: Countless connections
The first ICTCM was held in 1988 at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio as a small workshop with Pearson as the sponsor. The conference was the brainchild of Addison-Wesley authors Bert Waits and Frank Demana. They shared a dream that students would be better served by integrating technology in the classroom and wanted to bring educators together for this goal.
In 1991, the workshop grew to over 800 attendees and was held in Portland, Oregon, where it was officially named the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics.
Over the years, the conference has been held in different locations across the US and continues to attract hundreds of attendees from around the world.
Questions?
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