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Special Interest Groups of the MAA

SIGMAAs provide MAA members who share common mathematical interests with opportunities to organize and interact professionally. SIGMAA activities include holding meetings, sessions and receptions at MAA meetings, maintaining newsletters, web pages, and list servers, facilitating research and publications, interacting with other MAA organizations, and generally sharing ideas and establishing a network of interested colleagues often from diverse employment settings.

There are currently eleven Special Interest Groups of the MAA. To learn more about the individual SIGMAAs, click on a tab at the bottom of the page or visit the SIGMAA webpages using the links on the left.

BIO and ARTS SIGMAAs Added!

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Two new SIGMAAs were recently added: BIO and ARTS! The focus of BIO SIGMAA is on the pedagogy of mathematical and computational biology at the undergraduate level and supporting education opportunities among undergraduates and undergraduate faculty. They recently held their first business meeting and reception on January 6, 2007 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, LA. For more information, visit http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/bio.

SIGMAA ARTS was created with the purpose of supporting and encouraging the interest of MAA members in the connections between mathematics and the arts including, but not limited to, the visual arts, sculpture, architecture, origami, textile and fiber art, literature, drama, dance, music, multimedia art and digital art. They have recently established a very active listserv and are looking to recruit new members. To learn more, visit http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/arts.

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SIGMAA on RUME

Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
RUME's mission is to foster research on learning and teaching undergraduate mathematics and to provide a support network for those who are involved in this area of study. RUME also welcomes those who teach secondary mathematics and/or are interested in the findings in research of undergraduate mathematics education.

http://www.rume.org

BIG SIGMAA

Business, Industry, Government
BIG SIGMAA serves as a unifying link between business, industry and government mathematicians, academic mathematicians, and mathematics students. The SIGMAA provides resources and a forum for MAA members who share an interest in mathematics used in business, industry and government, aids in professional development, helps build partnerships between industry and academics, and increases awareness of opportunities for mathematicians in business, industry and government.


http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/big

SIGMAA STAT-ED

Statistics Education
The mission of the SIGMAA on Statistics Education is to provide a forum for those who are interested in statistics education to meet, interact, offer support, and foster increased awareness of statistics education.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/stated

HOM SIGMAA

History of Mathematics
The mission of HOM SIGMAA is to provide a forum through which those interested in the history of mathematics can meet, interact, exchange ideas, provide support for one another, and foster increased awareness of the historical background of mathematics.


http://oldhome.adelphi.edu/~bradley/HOMSIGMAA/

POM SIGMAA

Philosophy of Mathematics
The mission of POM SIGMAA is to stimulate interest in the philosophy of mathematics in the wider mathematical community; to inform this community of concepts, issues and recent developments in the philosophy of mathematics; and to encourage research in the philosophy of mathematics.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/pom

SIGMAA EM

Environmental Mathematics
The mission of SIGMAA EM is to provide a forum for those interested in solving problems arising from environmental sources. SIGMAA EM also promotes awareness of environmental issues and especially the role that mathematics plays in analyzing such issues.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/em

SIGMAA QL

Quantitative Literacy
SIGMAA QL aims to provide a structure within the mathematics community to identify the prerequisite mathematical skills for quantitative literacy (QL) and find innovative ways of developing and implementing QL curricula. We also intend to assist colleagues in other disciplines to infuse appropriate QL experiences into their courses and hope to stimulate the general national dialogue concerning QL.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/ql

WEB SIGMAA

Mathematics Instruction Using the WEB
The mission of WEB SIGMAA is to educate its members about the use of the Web for instruction in mathematics; encourage and facilitate project members using the Web for mathematics instruction; create an interactive community of MAA members interested in using the Web for mathematics instruction; and act as a resource for all MAA members seeking to use the Web for undergraduate instruction.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/web

SIGMAA TAHSM

Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics
The mission of SIGMAA TAHSM is to support MAA members who share an interest in issues related to post-precalculus mathematics at the secondary school level by providing a forum for exchanging ideas, fostering increased understanding of these issues within the MAA, increasing the dialogue between the MAA and high school teachers, and utilizing expertise of the members in guiding and improving mathematical opportunities for advanced high school students.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/tahsm

BIO SIGMAA

Mathematical and Computational Biology
The focus of BIO SIGMAA is on the pedagogy of mathematical and computational biology at the undergraduate level. This includes the support of curriculum development, faculty development, and undergraduate research in those fields. The purpose of BIO SIGMAA is to support those activities that will enhance the exchange of ideas and access to educational opportunities among undergraduates and undergraduate faculty in the fields of mathematical and computational biology. This necessarily includes interaction with all concerned departmental structures (i.e. mathematics, computer science, biology, and other related departments) and also institutions and organizations that feed into, and from, the undergraduate programs.


http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/bio

SIGMAA ARTS

Mathematics and the Arts
The purpose of the SIGMAA ARTS is to support and encourage the interest of MAA members in the connections between mathematics and the arts including, but not limited to, the visual arts, sculpture, architecture, origami, textile and fiber art, literature, drama, dance, music, multimedia art, and digital art. The SIGMAA-ARTS will pursue this purpose by encouraging the awareness of, pedagogy in, and interdisciplinary research and publication in the areas of mathematically inspired art, the use and role of visualization in mathematics, applying mathematics to analyze art and/or the creative process, and mathematics as art.

http://www.maa.org/sigmaa/arts