Mary D.
Shepherd
GS 1677
Research Interests:
·
Differential
Geometry
·
Undergraduate
Mathematics Education (Reading Math in particular)
Recent Papers
Differential
Geometry:
Line Congruences as Surfaces in the Space of Lines, Differential Geometry and its Applications,
Vol. 10, (1999) pp 1-26.
Undergraduate
Mathematics Education:
Encouraging Students to Read Mathematics, PRIMUS, Vol. 15(2), June 2005, pp
124-144.
Good Readers Who Are Not Good Readers of
Mathematics: A Need for Specialized
Reading Strategies, joint with Annie and John Selden, being revised to be
submitted in 2008.
Some
Calculus 2 Students Seem to Prefer Procedural Approaches to Exercises over
Conceptual Ones, Electronic Proceedings of the
Other:
Groups,
Symmetry and Other Explorations with Cross Stitch, Electronic Proceedings
of the
Symmetry Patterns in Cross Stitch, chapter for book , Making Mathematics with Needlework, published by A.K. Peters.
Links:
Panel on Capstone
and One-Semester Research Projects for a Variety of Students, Joint
Mathematical meetings, 2008
Grading Rubric and Feedback
form from Sr. Barbara Reynolds