Highlights from Past Conferences
Spring 2024 - Colorado Mountain College, Glenwood Springs
The Spring 2024 ColoMATYC Conference was held on April 19, 2024 at Colorado Mountain College, Spring Valley Campus and it was a huge success! There was a student panel, with students from CMC there to answer questions and give us their perspective of being a math student.
- More Effective D2L Course Shells: Improve Performance and Impact Equity by Johanna Debrecht, and some "How to Study and Test" documents here.
- Colorado Math Pathways: Updates for CCCS by Rachel Sefton
- HIPs In and Beyond the Mathematics Classroom by Ruth Thompson & Tracy White ( and a HIPS Assignment Template and Semester project for college algebra.
- 3D Printed Models and Lagrange Multipliers by Brittni Lorton
- STEM-Ready: Targeted Constructivist Math Modules to increase STEM Enrollment and Retention by Colin Nicholls & Karen Kipple
- How MLB Players Use Real-Time Data to Enhance Their Game by Jason Vargas
- Data Science in Colorado by Matthew Watts (and DS Workflow Model )
Spring 2023 - Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood
- Online Consortia by Landon K. Pirius, Ph.D. CCCS Vice Chancellor, Academic and Student Affairs
- CCCS: Where We Are and Where We Are Going by current state discipline chairs, Rachel Sefton and Eric Thompson
- Meeting Students Where They Are Post-Pandemic by Libby Watts
- Creating Accessible STEM Content by Mat Olkowski, including these examples
- College Algebra Assessment Analysis by Jason Burke and Allison Millmore
Spring 2022 - Virtual
Spring 2021- Virtual
Pat Riley and Sherry McCormack | Hopkinsville Community College, Kentucky.
Topic: Using Projects for Primary Assessments
Spring 2020 - Front Range Community College, Longmont
Spring 2020 ColoMATYC presentation abstracts
- Keynote Address: Getting Started with PreTeXt by Oscar Levin, Ph.D. University of Northern Colorado.
- Open Educational Resources for Mathematics: the First 2,500 Years by Jonathan A. Poritz, CSU Pueblo.
- Building a Differential Equations Course on Collaborative Overleaf Projects by Kenneth Monks, FRCC.
- Enable Unprecedented Learning for All Students by Dan Ly (Lumen Learning)
- Overleaf Session by Paul Gessler (Overleaf)
- Using Edfinity by Sid Grover (Edfinity)
- Old School and New School using OER by Mike Miller and Marki Allegar, Aims Community College
- Intro to Stats - An Active Learning Redesign by Stephanie Beck, FRCC
Spring 2019 - Community College of Denver, Denver
Spring 2019 ColoMATYC presentation abstracts
- Spring 2019 Keynote Address was given by Dr. Beth Malmskog from Colorado College. The title of her talk was "What (Quilting) Circles Can Be Squared?"
- A session on WeBWorK: WeBWorK PowerPoint
- A session on Integration by Indivisibles: The Method of Indivisibles
Spring 2018 - Aurora Community College, Aurora
Spring 2018 ColoMATYC presentation abstracts
- Keynote Address: Revolutionary Mathematics: Liberating Ideas from History for Today's Teachers and Students. Janet Barnett, Ph.D. Colorado State University, Pueblo. Revolutionary Mathematics Abstract
- Overleaf: LaTeX in the Cloud for Openware, Group Projects, and Homework. Kenneth Monks, FRCC. "Baby Bear" template, "Mama Bear" template, and "Papa Bear" template
- Creating a Robust Co-Requisite Lab for College Algebra. Teresa Adams & Alicia Turner, CCD. PowerPoint
- Soft Skills for Student Success in a Corequisite Courses. Johanna Debrecht, NVCC. PowerPoint
- WeBWork and OER. Brenda Forland, RRCC, James Morski, CCD, & Justin Sherrill, AT Professional, CCCOnline. PowerPoint
Spring 2017 - Arapahoe Community College, Littleton
Keynote address by Dr. RaKissa Manzanares, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Colorado, Denver. Dr Manzanares spoke on Best Practices for Creating an Active and Engaging Online Learning Environment.
Active and Engaging Online Learning PowerPoint
Abstracts from all presenters in Spring 2017
Spring 2016
David Webb, Associate Professor and Program Co-Chair of Mathematics at CU Boulder, spoke in March 2016 introducing the idea of Tactivities in Math. These tactile activities help students to deepen their conceptual understanding of calculus. At this conference, many were interested in this NSF grant-funded project.
dcwebb@colorado.edu
Spring 2015
Luke Walsh from Catawba Valley Community College spoke in March 2015. His keynote talk was "Back to the Future: How The Math Of The Past Looked Better Than Today"
"Back to the Future" PowerPoint
"Nix The Trig Tricks" PowerPoint
lwalsh@cvcc.edu
