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May 31, 2005
Women Count: A Conference for Directors of Mathematics Outreach Programs for Young Women
Women Count: A Conference for Directors of Mathematics Outreach Programs for Young Women Applications are invited for...
May 01, 2005
Building Bridges for QL Education: National Numeracy Network and SIGMAA QL
Building Bridges for QL Education: National Numeracy Network and SIGMAA QL By Bernard L. Madison In response to...
April 27, 2005
MAA Establishes a Prize to Honor David Robbins
By Joe Buhler, Ron Graham, and Ann Watkins   Photograph of David Robbins courtesy of Ken Robbins....
April 22, 2005
Kenneth P. Bogart 1943-2005
Professor Kenneth P. Bogart, Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College, died in a biking accident in March. The...
March 22, 2005
Monthly Editor Search
Monthly Editor Search The Mathematical Association of America seeks to identify candidates to succeed Bruce Palka...
February 14, 2005
HRUMC XII
HRUMC XII The 12th annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference will be held at Williams College in...
February 14, 2005
April is Mathematics Awareness Month
April is Mathematics Awareness Month The theme for this year's Mathematics Awareness Month is Mathematics and the...
February 14, 2005
MAA National Elections Coming Up in April
MAA National Elections By Martha J. Siegel, Secretary Candidates for President Joseph A. GallianWilliam James (Jim...
January 07, 2005
Prizes Announced at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, GA
Prizes Announced at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, GA MAA Prizes Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award...
January 04, 2005
Announcement of the 2005 NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences
Announcement of the 2005 NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences The National Science...

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MAA Governor-at-Large Jeremy Kilpatrick Wins 2007 ICMI Felix Klein Award

Jeremy Kilpatrick, who is the MAA's Governor-at-Large for Teacher Education, has won the Felix Klein Medal for 2007. He will receive the award at the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME 11), in Monterrey, Mexico, in early July.

U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team Announced

U.S. team leaders announced the six students from across the country who will represent the United States at the 49th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Madrid. The students completed the third part of the IMO Team Selection Test on Friday, June 13.

The 2008 U.S. IMO team is:

USAMO Winners Celebrated in the Nation's Capital

The 12 winners of the U.S.A Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) were honored Monday evening at the 37th annual USAMO Awards Ceremony and Dinner in Washington, D.C.

MAA President Joe Gallian presided over the awards ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences, where he introduced the students and presented them with their USAMO medals. The winners are:

David Benjamin, Harrison High School, West Lafayette, Ind.

Evan O'Dorney, Spelling Champ and Math Whiz

The similarities between a spelling bee and a mathematics competition are few.  But whatever one may need to be successful at either, Evan O’Dorney has it in no short supply.

Discoveries + Breakthroughs: Do the Math Dance

It may look like a dance class, but Erik Stern and Karl Schaffer are actually using movement and rhythm to teach mathematics.

"We translate pattern into choreography, and we translate pattern into math," said Stern, an educator and choreographer at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

USA Mathematical Olympiad: 2008 USAMO Winners

This year, 505 outstanding high school students qualified for the 2008 USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO). On April 29-30, these students tackled a challenging, six-question exam, distributed via the Internet to their schools. The 12 winners are (in alphabetical order):

David Benjamin, Harrison High School, West Lafayette, Indiana.

Taoran Chen, Bayside High School, Flushing, New York.

Paul Christiano, The Harker School, San Jose, California.

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