Upcoming Math action
Nipissing’s mathematicians will be busy next week, with a math competition, a workshop for leading mathematicians from around the world, and a workshop aimed at local educators.
On Friday, May 11, Nipissing welcomes top math students in grades 11 and 12, who will be exercising their brain power during the annual math competition, taking place in A246 from 9:30 a.m. – 2:20 p.m. Participating schools include St. Joseph-Scollard Hall, West Ferris Secondary School, Widdifield Secondary School, and Parry Sound High School.
School teams will receive a math lesson and then work together to solve a problem set based on that lesson. The winning team will receive $150 from Nipissing University to purchase math books for their school library.
All of the prizes, lunch and snacks are provided by Nipissing University.
This event is sponsored by NUMERIC (Nipissing University Mathematics Education, Research, and Information Council), Nipissing University, the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, the Schulich School of Education and the Dean of Arts and Science office in partnership with the Near North District School Board and the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board.
May 14-18 Nipissing will host the Fields Institute Workshop on General Topology, Dimension Theory, Continuum Theory and Dynamical Systems.
The workshop attracts leading research mathematicians from around the world. It features 14 separate 60-minute talks followed by question and answer sessions for graduate students. Attending alongside Nipissing’s own graduate and undergraduate students, the workshop welcomes 13 graduate students from universities in Ontario and United States.
The workshop is funded by the Fields Institute and National Science Foundation in US.
For more information, please visit the website.
On May 17, Nipissing will help to host a day-long mathematical reasoning workshop for North Bay and area elementary teachers at the Annex (15 Janey Street in North Bay). This workshop will focus on developing teachers’ numerical reasoning through challenging and engaging problem solving using content from the junior level Ontario mathematics curriculum.
The emphasis of the workshop is on collaboration, support for, curiosity about, and encouragement of diverse problem solving strategies, all with an eye to transfer the skills learned into effective in-class teaching techniques.
About 50 teachers from the Near North District School Board and Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board are expected to attend.
The workshop is led by Dr. John Mayer, professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama and Principal Investigator, Greater Birmingham Mathematics Partnership; with assistance from his co-worker, William Bond of the University of Alabama. Organizers include Schulich School of Education professors Dr. Doug Franks and Dr. Chris Brew, with Sean Meighan of the NNDSB, and Melanie Courchesne of the NPSCDSB.
It is sponsored by Nipissing University, the Near North District School Board, and the Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic School Board.