Dilip K. Datta

Office: 247 Tyler Hall
Phone: (401) 874-5593
E-mail: datta@math.uri.edu 
Fax:     (401) 874 - 4617 


Faculty member since July 1, 1967 

I. Research Interests or activities:

Math Education, Math Anxiety. Especially interested in strategies to create a humanistic environment for teaching and learning math. I am also feeling an inner urge to help others become good math teachers and be successful in creating humanistic environment inside and outside math classrooms.
 

Associated with the Math Learning Center.

Experiments with participatory style of teaching,

Cooperative learning, Peer Tutoring etc.

Takes an active interest on the activities of the Honor society Pi Mu Epsilon.

Edits (with Catherine Roberts of University of Northern Arizona) a quarterly newsletter the Creative Math Teaching.


Recent Publications:

Books and Newsletters

1. Math Education At Its Best: The Potsdam Model, The Center for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA, 1993.

2. Finite Math For Liberal Arts, RI. Desktop, Kingston, USA, 1995.

3. Concepts of Geometry, second edition (In preparation - to be published soon).

4. Creative Math Teaching (1994 - ) Fifteen issues till now (Joint Editor with Catherine Roberts).

 Research papers: 1. Common Causes of Math Anxiety and Some Instructional Strategies, The Center for Teaching/Learning Math, Vol. 7, 1989, pp. 1-8.

2. Some Entertaining Matrices, New York State Mathematics Teachers' Journal, Vol. 42, No. 3, (1992), 157 - 163.

*3. (with Dean Clark)Arithmetic Matrices and the Nine-Card Monte, College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 24, 1993, 52 -56.

* This paper is included in Resources for Teaching Linear Algebra, MAA, 1997.
 

 Recent Invited Lectures, Workshops, etc.  
1. Teaching Mathematics The Potsdam Way (A day long workshop at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 13, 1994).

2. On Teaching Math (Lecture/Discussion at Oklahoma School of Science and Math, Oklahoma City on November 1, 1996).

3. Minicourse on Reform Calculus (A five week workshop for math teachers of Rhode Island at U.R.I. initiated, organized and run by me with help from Professor John Long and Professor Norman Finizio - Spring'97)

4. Efforts to Emulate Potsdam (An invited lecture Organized by the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America on April 3, 1997 at Johnson and Wales University, Providence).