Below is a conference announcement you may be interested in.
Ed
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Please distribute the following Call for Submissions to people interested
in using computer algebra tools (TI-92/89, DERIVE, MATHEMATICA, MAPLE,
AXIOM, REDUCE, MACSYMA, MUPAD, ...) for teaching any subject at school or
at university. Thank you for your cooperation.
Yours Sincerely,
-bernhard kutzler, session organizer
(See "http://www.kutzler.com" for more relevant info, links, and events.)
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C O M E T O M A D R I D !
Call for Submissions
for the session "Education"
in the frame of the 1999 IMACS-ACA (Applications of Computer Algebra)
Conference
24-27 June 1999, Euroforum, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
Education has become one of the fastest growing application areas for
computers in general and computer algebra in particular. Computer algebra
tools such as TI-92/89, DERIVE, MATHEMATICA, MAPLE, AXIOM, REDUCE, MACSYMA,
or MUPAD make powerful teaching tools in mathematics, physics, chemistry,
biology, economy, .....
The goal of this session is to exchange ideas and experiences, to hear
about classroom experiments, and to discuss all issues related with the use
of computer algebra tools in classroom (such as assessment, change of
curricula, new support material, ...)
If you have anything of the above which you would like to share with
colleagues in the inspiring atmosphere of an IMACS-ACA conference, then
please make a submission comprising
- title
- author(s)
- abstract (10 lines min, 20 lines max)
Format of submission:
Plain ASCII text in English (The presentation itself may be in English or
Spanish as there will be a simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation
available throughout the Education Session.)
Deadline for submission:
***** April 23, 1999
More info about the conference can be obtained from:
e-mail: imacs-aca99@ccedu.ucm.es
web: http://math.unm.edu/ACA/1999.html
Yours Sincerely,
-bernhard kutzler, session chairman
(See "http://www.kutzler.com" for more relevant info, links, and events.)
Edward D. Laughbaum
The Ohio State University
Department of Mathematics
231 West 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
Associate Director, The Ohio State University Technology College Short
Course Program
Associate Director, Ohio Early Mathematics Placement Testing Program
Director, AMATYC Outer Banks Summer Institute "Teaching in Context"
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
(O) (614) 292-7223 or (614) 292-9504
(FAX) (614) 292-0694
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~elaughba/
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/shortcourse
http://www.empt.org
http://www.amatyc.org/SumInst/1998-1999/OuterBanks/OuterBanks.html
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