Associate Professor and
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Mathematics
The University of Texas at Arlington

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Mathematics in Educational Contexts 

B.A. Shipman. A Comparative Study of Definitions on Limit and Continuity. In press at PRIMUS.

T. Jorgensen, B.A. Shipman. Limits of Infinite Processes for Liberal Arts Majors: Two Classic Examples.  In press at PRIMUS.

B.A. Shipman. Determining Definitions for Comparing Cardinalities.  In press at PRIMUS.

M. Cordero, T. Jorgensen, B.A. Shipman. Designing Contracts and Honors Thesis Projects in Mathematics. Revised and submitted to Teaching Science and Mathematics in Honors Education, National Collegiate Honors Council

M. Cordero, T. Jorgensen, B.A. Shipman. Engaging the Honors Student in Lower-division Mathematics. Revised and submitted to Teaching Science and Mathematics in Honors Education, National Collegiate Honors Council

B.A. Shipman. Lightning. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, eds. S. Greenwald and J. Thomley, Salem Press (2011) 

B.A. Shipman. Electricity.  Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, eds.  S. Greenwald and J. Thomley, Salem Press (2011) 


B.A. Shipman. Coupons and Rebates. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society,
 eds.  S. Greenwald and J. Thomley, Salem Press (2011) 

 

B.A. Shipman. Active Learning Materials for Critical Thinking in a First Course in Real Analysis (2009)  www.uta.edu/faculty/shipman/analysis .  Seven Chapters. Supported in part by NSF grant DUE-0837810.

 

Work on Effectiveness of my Active Learning Materials for Real Analysis
P. Dawkins. The Construction of Mathematical Communities in Undergraduate Real Analysis: the Case of Cyan.Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education. (2010)

 

P. Dawkins. Non-traditional Socio-mathematical Norms in Undergraduate Real Analysis, Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Texas at Arlington. (2009)

 

P. Dawkins. Concrete Metaphors in the Undergraduate Real Analysis Classroom. (2009) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.(2009)Eds. Swars, S.L., Stinson, D.W., and Lemons-Smith, S. Atlanta, GA: Georgia State University.Vol 5, p. 819-826.

Student Honors Theses

Engage, Discover, Formalize, Apply: Integrating successful teaching strategies into a coherent teaching method 

Daniel Wennersten

Bachelor of Science, Honors College, Spring 2007  

  

The Use of Representation Theory in Particle Physics: A Historical Interpretation 

First Place Presentation, HURCA
        (Honors Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity)
        Eric Daniel 
        Bachelor of Science, Honors College, Fall 2006.