Daryl Stephens' Conference Handouts

• Using Demographic Data to Predict Students’ Achievement in DSPM Courses (TNADE 2005, Chattanooga)
  • PDF of handout (65.4 KB)
  • PowerPoint Presentation that would have been used had I been able to locate a projector (515 KB)
• Teaching Mathematics Using History and Fairy Tales (TNADE 2004, Memphis -- presented with Robert Davidson)
• Power Point presentation used in session (1023 KB)
  
• Black and white PDF printout of slides, 6 to a page, 5 pages (232 KB)
  
• More extensive handouts with additional information and references (coming soon)
  
• Effects of Losing 0700 Courses on Passing Rates (TNADE 2003, Chattanooga) -- PDF file, 8 pages, 140 KB).
  
• Summary: ETSU dropped 0700 courses a year before TBR required us to. This report summarizes what happened and how the students who should have placed in an 0700 course (math, reading, writing) did when "holistically placed" into 0800 classes instead.

• Redefining Developmental Math for Non-Algebra Core Courses (NADE 2008, Boston -- presented with Murray Butler)
  • PDF handout (128 KB)
  • PowerPoint presentation used in session (726 KB)
• Can Demographic Data Predict Student Achievement? (NADE 2006, Philadelphia) -- see "Using Demographic Data to Predict Students’ Achievement in DSPM Courses" in the TNADE section above.
• Teaching Mathematics Using History and Fairy Tales (NADE 2005, Albuquerque -- presented with Robert Davidson)
• Two-page handout given at session (PDF file) (53 KB)
  
• Power Point presentation used in session (1023 KB)
  
• Black and white PDF printout of slides, 6 to a page, 5 pages (232 KB)
  
• More extensive handouts with additional information and references (coming soon)
  
• Don't Try This: What Doesn't  Work in Developmental Math (NADE 2004, St. Louis, presented with Irene Duranczyk)
• My part of the presentation is the same as Effects of Losing 0700 Courses on Passing Rates above.
• Adapting Developmental Course Content to Align with Changing Realities (NADE 2003, Austin, presented with a panel of faculty from ETSU and the University of Memphis. This PDF handout (79 KB) reflects only my portion of the presentation. A similar presentation (with less data available) was also given at TNADE in 2002.
• Abstract: Declining revenues prompted the state of Tennessee to eliminate the lowest-level remedial courses at state universities. At East Tennessee State University, students needing these courses were placed in the next higher level of developmental courses. These students tended to do about the same in the reading and writing courses as those who did not need the
  remedial courses, but considerably poorer in mathematics courses.
  
• Statistics Activities for Developmental Math , presented at NADE 1999. (PDF, 10 pages, 170 KB)
  
• Includes several activities such as creating a scatterplot and visually finding the equation of the apparently best-fitting line, stem-and-leaf plots, circle graphs with M&Ms, reaction times. Includes directions for making bar and circle graphs using Quattro Pro 6/7 and several linear data sets.
• Graph paper with lines 5 mm apart (PDF file)
  
• Putting Practice Tests on the Web using Word Perfect's Internet Publisher (an older handout -- 1996?) (19 KB, HTML format)

TMATYC (Tennessee Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges)

• Redefining Developmental Math for Non-Algebra Core Courses (TMATYC 2008, Northeast State TCC, Blountville -- presented with Murray Butler) | PDF of Handout (101K) | PowerPoint (489K)

Presentations at Other Conferences

• Mental Math Tricks for Fun and Contests -- Given at TMTA (Tennesse Math Teachers Association) September 21-22, 2007; UETCTM April 15, 2008; Washington County inservice May 8, 2008; SVCTM September 13, 2008. (PDF; 136 KB). This handout gives some of the tricks that are used for upper elementary through high school in mental math contests (UIL Number Sense) in Texas .