[CPS Math]ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS NEEDED - NCTM Paducah

[Jerry Becker]

Title: ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS NEEDED - NCTM Paducah

Colleagues:

The Program Co-Chairs for the Paducah [Kentucky] NCTM Regional Conference have indicated that additional speakers are needed in the following areas:

.  Assessment Strategies, particularly Grades 3-5

.  Algebra

.  Dynamic Software (visual tools) in Geometry

.  Statistics

.  Special Education

       .  Learning Strategies such as differentiation/inclusion, minority issues and related to above

          topics.

If you are interested in presenting in one or more of these areas, or if you know someone that might be interested, you/she/he needs to get a hard copy of the speaker proposal form from one of the two people below [Sue Boren or Sharon Schwarz], fill it out and then fax it to either of them. You can request the speaker proposal form from them by e-mail, fax or phone. In doing this, please provide the following information to them:

Name

Regular mailing address [school/business AND home]

Phone number [school AND home]

Fax number

E-mail address.

You can get the speaker proposal form from either of the following:

Dr. Sue Boren [Program Co-Chair]
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Humanities 424

The University of Tennessee at Martin

Martin, TN  38238-5049

Phone:    731-587-7365   (New area code: 02/12/2001)
Fax:        731-587-1407   (New area code: 02/12/ 2001)

E-mail:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OR

Sharon Schwarz [Program Co-chair].

1803 Hutson Drive

Cape Girardeau, MO  63701-3319
Phone:     573-334-8825  [H]
               573-651-2826  [O]

E-mail:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Here is some information about the Paducah NCTM Regional Conference, for your information.

WHAT:    NCTM Regional Conference on Mathematics

WHEN:   October 10-12, 2002

WHERE: J.R.'s Executive Inn,  Paducah, Kentucky

WHO:    The conference is for all teachers who teach mathematics PreK, K-12, Community

              College, College/University, teacher educators, administrators and researchers. This

              includes special education and gifted education.

NOTE: The first NCTM Regional Conference on Mathematics held in Paducah was in November, 1993. It was a success with an outstanding professional program. Nearly 2400 teachers registered for the conference. Now there are new conference facilities. The National Quilting Museum is located adjacent to J.R.'s Executive Inn - we will be using its classrooms for some of our conference sessions. One strand on our program will be quilting and the mathematics of quilting. You will see this in our conference logo later on. It is a very short walk from the conference facilities to beautiful, quaint downtown Paducah with nice restaurants and shops.

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Jerry P.Becker
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL  62901-4610  USA
Phone:  (618) 453-4241  [O]
            (618)  457-8903 [H]
Fax:      (618) 453-4244
E-mail:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]