The 2007 Sehnert Lecturer
Rose Mary Zbiek
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
Pennsylvania State University
A former Pennsylvania mathematics and computer science teacher, Rose Mary Zbiek is an associate professor of mathematics education at The Pennsylvania State University. She joined the Penn State faculty in 2002 after a decade of teaching mathematics and mathematics education at the University of Iowa.
In addition to work in mathematical modeling, her current research blends a focus on the mathematical understandings of secondary mathematics teachers with a concentration in classroom use of mathematics technology. She served on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics writing team for the Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics and currently is Chair of the International Committee for Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education.
Serving as a senior faculty associate for the Mid-Atlantic Center for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, she is series editor of Essential Understandings, a 16-book series on the mathematical content for teachers in Grades PreK-12 to be published by NCTM beginning in 2008.
7:30 p.m.
Otto Budig Theatre (University Center)
A number of professional organizations and respected individuals have made recommendations about what should happen in school mathematics. Moving beyond these recommendations and their classroom implications,
this talk uses broadly accessible and engaging mathematical problems to underscore how students and others can think about mathematics in powerful ways.
We encourage math educators and students to join us for these special events!
High school teachers: At 5:30 pm, come yourself and bring a few students and join us for a free dinner in the University Center Ballroom. If you can make it for dinner, please call the Mathematics Department office at (859) 572-5377 by noon on Wednesday, October 24, so that we may plan accordingly.
Note: if you wish to bring more than two students, be sure to call and check on availability of space for dinner (space may be limited).
Sponsored by the NKU Department of Mathematics and
the NKU Center for Integrative Natural Science and
Mathematics. For further information, contact Dr. Gina Foletta at foletta@nku.edu or by phone at (859) 572-6349. A campus map is available at
http://www.nku.edu/campusmaps.
The annual James Sehnert Lecture was established in memory of, and endowed by the estate of, the late
Professor James “Duke” Sehnert, a member of the NKU Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from 1970 to 1999.
Previous Sehnert Lectures:
2006:
Brian Winkel, “Cipher Busting by Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, William F. Friedman - and Beyond”
2005:
V. Frederick Rickey, “Isaac Newton: Man Myth, and Mathematics”
2004:
Robert V. Hogg, “The Importance of Understanding Variation”
2003:
Edward B. Burger, “Magic with Mathematics”
2002:
Ivars Peterson, “Moebius Madness”
2001:
Underwood Dudley, “Why Mathematics?”