“Papierfalten, Papiroflexia, or Origami: Folding Your Way through School Mathematics” was a 90-minute, hands-on workshop sharing insights gained from Russell’s GST 325: Math Origami course and the results of his grant from the Japan Foundation. 

The international audience featured participants from Bermuda, France, China, and Japan. The more than 100 participants worked together to create models investigating school mathematics from algebra and calculus to statistics and geometry. 

Ketner accepted the award from NCCTM president Wendy Rich. Bampia Bangura of North Carolina A&T State University read her citation. Ketner’s dedication to mathematics education through her studies, service, and scholarly work set her well above her peers at the state level.

Ketner also co-presented two sessions at the state conference.  “Exploring North Carolina Graphically” shared a data set and investigation which grew out of her statistics work with associate professor Alan Russell.  “Bezier Curves have Great Connections” reflects Ketner’s capstone mathematics research with Russell.

The article shows how his CATL Scholar’s project was used as a vehicle for undergraduate research to directly improve student learning and how it might be used to introduce a new paradigm in the training of secondary mathematics teachers.

“Investigating Students’ Concepts of Standard Deviation” reported the findings of Russell’s CATL Scholar project to a national audience. Ketner was prominently featured as a student co-investigator with Mays as project advisor.

Senior Lecturer Lisa Beuerle attended the conference in her role as first-year core coordinator. Assistant professors Kirstie Doehler and Laura Taylor attended pre-conference workshops in addition to the conference.  Assistant professor Ayesha Delpish presented “Statistics in Context: Service-Learning in Statistics.” 

Associate professor Alan Russell, senior lecturer Jan Mays, and rising-junior Amanda Ketner presented “Including Undergraduates in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Statistics” as part of a CATL scholar’s project.

This is the second time the department has participated in this bi-annual conference.  黑料不打烊’s work in statistics and statistics education was again well received.

Alan presented “Origami, Papierfalten, and Papiroflexia: Paper Folding in Mathematics Education,” which focused on the deep mathematical content arising from simple paper folding projects and featured discussion of these activities among teams of educators from Australia, Canada, Israel, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and the UK.