IUP Students Attend Pre-Service Teacher Day
On November 6, 2021, IUP mathematics education students attended the Western Pennsylvania Pre-Service Teacher Day at Duquesne University.
On November 6, 2021, IUP mathematics education students attended the Western Pennsylvania Pre-Service Teacher Day at Duquesne University.
Yong Colen served as the Mathematics Curriculum Quality Control Lead for Public Consulting Group and Educational Testing Service, overseeing the quality of the Praxis preparation course to improve prospective teachers’ knowledge of mathematics.
Dr. Sumanth Swaminathan will be giving two lectures as part of the SIAM Visiting Lecture Series on Friday, April 22.
The S-COAM Program will give two 3D printing workshops on October 13 and 27 in Stright Hall, room 220, from 6:30-8:00PM.
The IUP Math Club will meet on every other Friday during the Common Hour (11:30-12:30) in Stright Hall room 202 for the remainder of the Fall, 2021 semester.
Yong S. Colen published “Where’s the Procedural Fluency?: U.S. Fifth Graders’ Demonstration of the Standard Multiplication Algorithm” in the Journal of the Korean Society of Mathematical Education, Series D: Research in Mathematical Education.
The IUP SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Student Chapter will be holding a welcome meeting on Friday, September 10 from 6:00 to 7:00 PM
John Chrispell, a mathematician in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, will be giving the next talk in the Science Inspires Series, titled “Fluids, Ratchets, and Transportation: Moving Strange Fluids in a Unique Way.” His talk will be held on Thursday, March 18, at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Yongtao Cao, a statistician in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, has written a paper on monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater, and has written an app to predict the number of COVID-19 cases for a provided SARS-CoV-2 concentration level in the wastewater.
Alumni who participated in the Scholarships-Creating Opportunities for Applying Mathematics (S-COAM) program at IUP will be meeting virtually with current IUP students to discuss their career paths. The meeting will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, March 10, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
A team of mathematics students—Mikayla Dokos, Elizabeth Lees, and Micayla Schambura—participated in the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications Mathematical Contest in Modeling on February 4–8, 2021.
The application form for scholarships in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences is now available and the deadline to apply is March 15.
John Chrispell of the Mathematics Department will conduct two hands-on workshops on the programming language Python on February 17 and February 24, 2021.
The IUP Math Club will meet every other Friday at 8:00 p.m. during the spring 2021 semester.
John Chrispell of the Mathematical and Computer Sciences Department recently had an article published in SIAM News discussing IUP students’ success in the COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
The Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences announces free tutoring sessions for their introductory mathematics and statistics courses.