The final portion of the talk discusses a computational method by which this unknown function can be approximated, and compares the resulting model to measured data. This special Colloquium is presented as part of the activities for Mathematics Awareness Week. Four professors will give their views on how to cover the section of calculus dealing with infinite series and power series. These faculty members will display any technology used in teaching this material, as well as discuss which topics they emphasize and what their expectations are for student learning. The use of statistical assessments as evidence in both criminal and civil cases is increasing and the techniques used are becoming more sophisticated.
Statisticians are, increasingly, being called to give expert testimony in cases.
A brief history of the use of statistics in the legal area will be presented and some of the areas where statistics has played a key role in the courtroom will be discussed. A panel of four professors illustrate a variety of ways in which the Web can be used to support classroom instruction. The tree provides an intuitive, visual adjunct for the Three Gap Theorem. Their work utilized Minitab and SPSS to analyze a database of approximately 11,000 student records and was funded under a Dean's Summer Fellowship in 1997. They will also discuss how technology and accreditation has changed the engineering curriculum over the last few years and suggest ways in which our mathematics curriculum can respond to these changes.