JANET L. BEERY

Professor of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics Phone: (909) 793-2121

University of Redlands FAX: (909) 335-5121

Redlands, California 92373 E-mail: janet_beery@redlands.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June, 1989

A.M. in Mathematics, Dartmouth College, June, 1985

B.S., Summa Cum Laude, in Mathematics and English Literature, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, May, 1983

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Full/Associate/Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Redlands, 1989-present

Courses: finite mathematics, calculus sequence (including First Year Seminars), discrete mathematics, graph theory, linear algebra, probability theory, number theory, history of mathematics, real analysis, point set topology, abstract algebra, senior research seminar, and directed studies in related fields

Teaching Fellow (Instructor), Dartmouth College, 1987-89, 1985-86

Instructor, University of Puget Sound, 1986-87

Teaching Fellow (Teaching Assistant), Dartmouth College, 1983-85

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Formulating Figurate Numbers, History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM) 2008 Proceedings, International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, July, 2008

Navigating Between Triangular Numbers and Trigonometric Tables: How Thomas Harriot Developed His Interpolation Formulas, Proceedings of Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (2007), 2008

Institute in the History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching: Ten Years After,

- FOCUS (Newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America), November, 2006;

- International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Newsletter, July, 2006;

- as IHMT 10-Year Anniversary, Bulletin of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, November, 2006; and

- as Institute in the History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching Marks 10^th Anniversary, Mathematical Association of America History of Mathematics Special Interest Group Newsletter, June, 2006

Reviews of A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English Algebra to 1685 and The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot’s Treatise on Equations by Jacqueline A. Stedall, Historia Mathematica, May, 2006

Calculus Exploration: Concavity and the Second Derivative, in Instructor’s Manual for Calculus: Single and Multivariable, Wiley, 2005

Thomas Harriot’s Treatise on Figurate Numbers, Finite Differences, and Interpolation Formulas, in Proceedings of Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics (2004), 2005

Lengths, Areas, and Volumes, with C. Dolezal, A. Sauk, and L. Shuey, in Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America (MAA), 2005

Negative Numbers, with G. Cochell, C. Dolezal, A. Sauk, and L. Shuey, in Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, MAA, 2005

Thomas Harriot’s Communication of Mathematics via Symbols, Tables, and Page Layout, in History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM) 2004 Proceedings, International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, July, 2004; and in Proceedings HPM 2004 and European Summer University 4, University of Crete Press, 2006

Interdisciplinary Lively Application Project: Pollution Police, with J. Selco, in Tools for Teaching: Modules 2000-2001, Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP);

and as Pollution Police: How to Determine Spectroscopic Selection Rules, Journal of Chemical Education, February, 2004

Interdisciplinary Lively Application Project: Saving a Drug Poisoning Victim, with J. Selco, in Tools for Teaching: Modules 2000-2001, COMAP; and as Saving a Drug Poisoning Victim: A Kinetics Simulation, Journal of Chemical Education, May, 2002

Plan to Integrate Calculus II and III Curricula at University of Redlands, with P. Cornell, A. Killpatrick, and A. Koonce, in Confronting the Core Curriculum: Considering Change in the Undergraduate Mathematics Major, MAA, 1998

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Navigating Between Triangular Numbers and Trigonometric Tables: How Thomas Harriot Developed His Interpolation Formulas, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Annual Summer Meeting (MathFest), Madison, Wisconsin, August, 2008; and Joint Conference of British Society for History of Mathematics and Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, July, 2007

Thomas Harriot’s Pythagorean Triples: Could He List Them All?, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Annual Summer Meeting (MathFest), Madison, Wisconsin, August, 2008

Formulating Figurate Numbers, Quadrennial Meeting of International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM), Mexico City, July, 2008

‘Ad Calculum Sinuum’: Thomas Harriot’s Sine Table Interpolation Formulas, Annual Conference of Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June, 2008

Mathematical Puzzles and Games, American Association of University Women (AAUW) 8th Grade Girls Mathematics and Science Day, University of Redlands, with E. Doolittle, February, 2008; March, 2007; February, 2006; January, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000

Thomas Harriot’s Communication of Mathematics via Symbols, Tables, and Page Layout,

- American Mathematical Society (AMS) Western Section Meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, April, 2005;

- International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Americas Section Meeting, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, April, 2005; and

- Quadrennial Meeting of International Study Group on Relations Between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM), Uppsala University, Sweden, July, 2004

Thomas Harriot’s Treatise on Figurate Numbers, Finite Differences, and Interpolation Formulas,

- Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium Series on the History of Mathematics, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, March, 2005;

- Joint Conference of British Society for History of Mathematics and Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Cambridge University, England, July, 2004;

- California Polytechnic University, Pomona, April, 2004; and

- American Mathematical Society (AMS)-Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Joint National Meetings, Phoenix, Arizona, January, 2004

Workshop on Historical Modules for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, with V. Katz and K. Michalowicz, HPM Quadrennial Meeting, Uppsala University, Sweden, July, 2004

A Liberal Arts Mathematics History Course Co-taught by Future Secondary Teachers, AMS-MAA Joint National Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, January, 2003

Applying Abstract Algebra to Molecular Spectroscopy: A Classroom Project, AMS-MAA Joint National Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, January, 2003

Pythagorean Puzzles, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, April, 2001

Mathematics / Chemistry Classroom Projects: Saving a Drug Poisoning Victim and Detecting Pollutants, Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Southern California Section Meeting, Whittier College, October, 2000; and MAA Annual Summer Meeting (MathFest), Providence, Rhode Island, August, 1999

Saving a Drug Poisoning Victim and Pollution Police Projects (poster), in absentia, with J. Selco, AMS-MAA Joint National Meetings, Washington, D.C., January, 2000

Leonhard Euler: Even When He Was Wrong, He Was Right, California State University, San Bernardino, October, 1998

Euler's Beau Rapport Between Divergent and Convergent Series, AMS Western Section and MAA Southern California Section Joint Meeting, Claremont-McKenna College, October, 1997

SESSIONS ORGANIZED (1998- )

The Political Dimension of Ethnomathematics Panel Discussion, with A. Shell-Gellasch, AMS-MAA Joint National Meetings, San Diego, California, January, 2008

Student Poster Sessions, MAA Southern California Section Meetings, Harvey Mudd College, March, 2003; California Institute of Technology (Caltech), March, 2002; California State University, Fullerton, March, 2001; University of California, Los Angeles, March, 2000; and University of California, San Diego, March, 1999

Mathematics and Computer Science Department Seminar Series, University of Redlands, 1990-2005

History of Mathematics in the Second Millennium Paper Session, with E. Sandifer, AMS-MAA Joint National Meetings, San Diego, January, 2002

Careers for Math Majors Panels, MAA Southern California Section Meeting, California State University, Fullerton, March, 2001; and University of California, Los Angeles, March, 2000

History of Mathematics Paper Session, MAA Southern California Section Meeting, Pepperdine University, Malibu, October, 1998

GRANTS, HONORS, and PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (1998- )

University of Redlands Innovative Teaching Award, 2008

MAA Beckenbach Book Prize Committee, 2005-2009 (Chair, 2007-09)

Secretary-Treasurer, MAA History of Mathematics Special Interest Group, 2005-2009

Newsletter Editor, MAA Southern California-Nevada Section, 2003-present

Advanced Placement Calculus Examination Development Committee, College Board, 2002-2008 (College Board Advisor, 2006-2008)

Advanced Placement Calculus Examination Reader (grader), Educational Testing Service, June, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

National Curve Bank Website Advisory Board, California State University, Los Angeles, and National Science Foundation, 2001-present

Student Chapters Coordinator, MAA Southern California Section, 1998-2003

Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum Guidelines Writing Team, MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, 2001-02 (published by MAA as Undergraduate Programs and Courses in the Mathematical Sciences: CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004)

Writing Team Leader, Historical Modules Project, MAA and National Science Foundation, 1999-2002 (published as Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, MAA, 2005)

Project Director, Student Team to Design Math-4-Kids Website, University of Redlands Hewlett Foundation and Science Center Grants, Summer, 1999

University of Redlands Outstanding Teaching Award, 1999

Project Director, Student Team to Design an Activity Based Elementary Mathematics History Course, University of Redlands Hewlett Foundation Grant, Summer, 1998 (Mathematics Through Its History course first offered Interim 1999)

University of Redlands Innovative Teaching Award, with Mathematics Department, 1998

Co-Project Director, with E. Brubacher, E. Culpepper, C. Forristal, A. King, K. Ogren, C. Rickabaugh, J. Selco, M. Scherer, and L. Silveira, Gender and Science Study Group, University of Redlands Hewlett Foundation Grant, 1997-98

FUNDED WORKSHOPS (1998- )

Institute in the History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching / Historical Modules Project, Catholic University, Washington, D.C., July, 2001, 2000, and 1999, sponsored by National Science Foundation (also: Institute in the History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching, American University, Washington, D.C., June, 1997 and 1996, sponsored by NSF)

Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs), United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, October, 1998, sponsored by NSF

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of mathematics

Collegiate mathematics education, especially the use of discovery-based learning in teaching mathematics

Algebra, especially finite permutation group theory and representation and character theory. Dissertation: Transitive Groups of Prime Degree

Undergraduate research sponsored since 1997 includes summer and senior projects involving computational group theory (1997), mathematics history (1997, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2008), Fourier series (1998), graph theory and circuit analysis (1998), voting methods (1998), algebraic coding theory (1998, 1999, 2002, 2006), algebraic combinatorics (2000), group theory in chemistry (2000-2001), Groebner bases (2002), plane symmetry groups (2002, 2004, 2008), fuzzy set theory (2005), golden ratio and Fibonacci sequence (2006), group theory in sociology (2006), Hilbert spaces (2008).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Mathematical Association of America (Special Interest Groups: History of Mathematics, Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics)

Association for Women in Mathematics

Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics

British Society for History of Mathematics

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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