Four Rhodes students—Parth Sinojia, Samuel Lippe, Shayla Garrison, and Lauren Surratt—presented research at the 26th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME) held recently in Omaha, NE. Prof. Erika David Parr accompanied the group.
The national conference, which is presented by the Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America (SIGMAA) for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, was hosted by University of Nebraska Omaha with more than 300 in-person and 100 virtual attendees, primarily faculty members and doctoral students.
The following students made poster presentations:
- Presenters: Sam Lippe and Parth Sinojia
"Student Thinking and Challenges when Representing Distance in the Cartesian Plane" by Jude Shive, Samuel Lippe, Catherine Althoff, Lauren Surratt, Shayla Garrison, Parth Sinojia, and Erika David Parr (faculty) - Presenter: Shayla Garrison
"Conceptualizing and Representing the Cartesian Connection in Calculus" by Shayla Garrison and Erika David Parr (faculty) - Presenter: Lauren Surratt
"The Effect of Small Group Interactions on Learning Opportunities" by Lauren Surratt and Erika David Parr (faculty)
The posters that Surratt and Garrison presented included work from their individual senior research projects as majors in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Prof. Parr and Sam Lippe delivered a theoretical report presentation titled “A Conceptual Analysis of Expressing Distances Algebraically within the Cartesian Plane.”
Students also had conference proceedings published accompanying each of their presentations.