Dr. Sarah's Spring 2001 Women and Minorities in Math - A Course with Significant Mathematical Content

  • Class Highlights Includes daily classroom activities
  • Paper 1 The 18th and 19th Centuries
  • Paper 2 Mathematicians born between 1900 and 1925
  • Paper 3 Mathematicians born after 1925
  • Final web project
  • Dr. Sarah's Office Hours
  • WebCT Includes bulletin board, tests and grades
  • Syllabus and Grading Policies Includes course goals

    Other Resources

  • Incorporating the Mathematical Achievements of Women and Minorities into Schools: Columns and Classroom Activity Sheets
  • Dr. Sarah's Fall 1999 Women in Math Class
  • Dr. Sarah's Searching for Mathematicians on the Web
  • Dr. Sarah's Classroom Activities on Hypatia
  • Contents of Folders for Paper 1

    Student Work

    * These are actual student papers that were not designed to be web pages. They may contain historical, grammatical, mathematical, or formatting errors. These papers were graded using the criterion mentioned in the paper directions, and the writing checklist. The test review sheets and the WebCT tests are good indicators of the mathematics that was discussed in class during and/or after each presentation.

    Final Project (See * below)
    Maria Agnesi by Samantha Mathews
    Benjamin Banneker by Anna Wright
    Emmy Noether by Mike McEllen
    Elbert Cox by Dorothy Moorefield
    Dudley Weldon Woodard by Olivia Stanley
    David Blackwell by Elizabeth Johnson
    Grace Brewster Murray Hopper by Melissa Mogensen
    Alice Turner Schafer by Matthew Snyder
    Beauregard Stubblefield by Larien Chilton
    Olga Taussky-Todd by Amanda Parsons
    J. Ernest Wilkins by Emily Anthony
    Richard Tapia by April Lail
    Doris Schattschneider by Jonathan Daniel
    Jean Taylor by Stephen Howard
    Freeman A. Hrabowski, III by Katy Rountree
    Karen E. Smith by Bibi Drum
    Jonathan Farley by Melissa Shoaf

    WebCT Quiz 1 on the history of the education of women and African Americans
    WebCT Quiz 2 on Hypatia and her mathematics
    WebCT Quiz 3 on mental rotations testing and stereotype vulnerability

    Paper 1 - The 18th and 19th Centuries (See * below), Review sheet for test on paper 1, WebCT test on paper 1
    Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fullani al-Kishnawi paper, worksheet, by Bibi Drum and Joy Winstead
    Thomas Fuller paper, worksheet by Stephen Howard and Matthew Snyder
    Maria Gaetana Agnesi paper, worksheet, by Samantha Mathews and Melissa Mogensen
    Benjamin Banneker paper, worksheet, by Amanda Parsons and Anna Wright
    Sophie Germain paper, worksheet, by Katy Rountree and Melissa Shoaf
    Sofya Kovalevsky paper, worksheet, by Emily Anthony and April Lail
    Dudley Weldon Woodard paper, worksheet, by Larien Chilton and Olivia Stanley
    Emmy Noether paper, worksheet, by Elizabeth Johnson and Mike McEllen
    Elbert F. Coxpaper, worksheet by Jonathan Daniel and Dorothy Moorefield.

    Paper 2 - Mathematicians born between 1900 and 1925 (See * below), Review sheet for test on paper 2, and WebCT test on paper 2
    David Blackwell paper ,references, worksheet, by Elizabeth Johnson and Mike McEllen
    Marjorie Lee Browne paper, worksheet, by Melissa Shoaf and Anna Wright
    Grace Brewster Murray Hopper paper, worksheet, by Samantha Mathews and Melissa Mogensen
    Olga Aleksandrova Ladyzhenskaya paper, worksheet, by Dorothy Moorefield
    Julia Bowman Robinson paper, worksheet, by Bibi Drum and Joy Winstead
    Alice Turner Schafer paper, worksheet, by Stephen Howard and Matthew Snyder
    Clarence F. Stephens paper, worksheet, by Katy Rountree and Olivia Stanley
    Beauregard Stubblefield paper, worksheet by Larien Chilton and April Lail
    Olga Taussky Todd paper, worksheet, by Jonathan Daniel and Amanda Parsons.
    J. Ernest Wilkins paper, worksheet, presentation slides, An animation showing how the hyperboloid is covered by one of the families of lines on the surface y Emily Anthony

    Paper 3 - Mathematicians born after 1925 (See * below), Review sheet for test on paper 3, and WebCT test on paper 3
    Richard Tapia paper, worksheet, by Larien Chilton and April Lail
    Doris Schattschneider paper, worksheet, by Jonathan Daniel and Melissa Mogensen
    Jean Taylor paper, worksheet, by Stephen Howard and Samantha Mathews
    Fan Chung Graham paper, references, worksheet, by Dorothy Moorefield and Olivia Stanley
    Carolyn Gordon paper, worksheet, by Mike McEllen and Matthew Snyder
    Freeman A. Hrabowski, III paper, worksheet, by Emily Anthony and Katy Rountree
    Nathaniel Dean paper, references, worksheet, by Elizabeth Johnson and Anna Wright
    Karen Smith paper, worksheet, by Bibi Drum and Joy Winstead
    Jonathan Farley paper, worksheet, by Amanda Parsons and Melissa Shoaf

    * These are actual student papers that were not designed to be web pages. They may contain historical, grammatical, mathematical, or formatting errors. These papers were graded using the criterion mentioned in the paper directions, and the writing checklist. The test review sheets and the WebCT tests are good indicators of the mathematics that was discussed in class during and/or after each presentation.