Keith Nabb

Moraine Valley Community College
Crawley Science Hall, Rm 242
Palos Hills, IL 60465
ph: 708-974-5592
nabb@morainevalley.edu

Below is a list of recent professional activities. Links to papers are preprints. This page is under construction so please check back for updates.

Publications

Nabb, K. (2010). Pitfalls of personally constructed learning devices. Learning and Teaching Mathematics, 8, 41-45. (download)

Nabb, K.A. (2010). The back page: Functions, functions everywhere. Mathematics Teacher, 104 (3), 240.

Nabb, K.A. (2010). A close encounter with infinity: Inventing new mathematics. Mathematics Teacher, 104 (5), 373-378.

Nabb, K.A. (2011). A new perspective on related rates. MathAMATYC Educator, 2 (2), 24-26. (download)

Nabb, K.A. (2011). Trying something new: Unlecturing mathematics. Innovation Abstracts, 33 (6), 1-2. (download)

Meyer, D.Z., Antink Meyer, A., Nabb, K.A., Connell, M.G., & Avery, L. M. (to appear). A theoretical and empirical exploration of intrinsic problems in designing inquiry activities. Research in Science Education.

Nabb, K.A. (to appear). Exploratory thinking on a nonroutine calculus task. Mathematics Teacher.

Conference Proceedings

Nabb, K.A. (2010, March). CAS as a restructuring tool in mathematics education. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Chicago IL. (download)

Nabb, K.A. (2010, November). Inquiry in differential equations: A teacher's reflections. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference for the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Boston MA. (link to AMATYC proceedings)

Nabb, K.A. (2011, November). Calculus: Nonroutine problems and their nonroutine solutions. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference for the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Austin TX. (link to AMATYC proceedings)

Presentations

"Shared experiences in online learning contexts," with Shaalean Lopez and Steven Rogg, Midwestern Symposium on Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science, Chicago, October 2007. (download)

"Advanced mathematical thinking (AMT) in the college classroom," Eleventh Annual Chicago Symposium Series: Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science, Chicago, March 2009. (download)

"CAS as a restructuring tool in mathematics education," International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Chicago, March 2010. (download)

"Inquiry in differential equations: A teacher's reflections," American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Boston, November 2010. (download)

"Reflections on teaching inquiry-oriented differential equations," Wisconsin Mathematics Council Annual Conference, Green Lake WI, May 2011.

"Computer algebra systems in mathematics education," Wisconsin Mathematics Council Annual Conference, Green Lake WI, May 2011.

"Advanced mathematical thinking," Maseeh Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium Series, Portland State University, June 2011.

"Calculus: Nonroutine problems and their nonroutine solutions," American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Austin TX, November 2011.

"Raising the Bar: Effecting change in students' beliefs about mathematics," Metropolitan Mathematics Club of Chicago, February 2012. (download)

Some People in Math/Science Education (links)

Lara Alcock

Michael Francis Atiyah

Sheldon Axler

Deborah Loewenberg Ball

Paul Cobb

Keith Devlin