SPIN   Annual Report Form 2003-2004

SPIN NAME  Mathematics  DATE   December 29, 2003

Submitted By (Name):  Daryl Stephens

Your Position/Title in Group:  chair

Address:_Box 70663, Johnson City, TN 37614_

Email: stephen@etsu.edu    Phone: 423-439-4676   Fax: 423-439-8361 

Goals for this year:

• Publish three newsletters.
• Sponsor two sessions at NADE 2004 in St. Louis.
• Solicit manuscripts and funding for Best Practices in Developmental Mathematics, 2nd edition.  Publish it, time permitting.
• Continue to add to the SPIN web site.
• Encourage use of SPIN e-mail discussion group.

Accomplishments to date:

• April and fall newsletters were e-mailed to every member for whom we had an e-mail address. Newsletters were later posted to the SPIN website.
• Two sessions sponsored by the MathSPIN were presented at the NADE conference in Austin.
• Members are working on two SPIN-sponsored sessions for the 2004 conference in St. Louis. One will be a roundtable on “what works” and the other will deal with technology.
• Tom Armington solicited manuscripts for, edited, and sent the final version of Best Practices 2nd edition to Prentice Hall for publishing. Prentice Hall agreed to publish the book for us for free if they could use extra copies. The NADE board is negotiating a publication contract with Prentice Hall. SPIN members and non-members contributed many manuscripts.
• The SPIN web site has been updated as time permitted. Newsletters, quarterly reports, presentation handouts and light anecdotes have been added.
• In all, 87 messages were posted to the e-mail discussion group in 2003. Some of the topics discussed include locating information about state developmental math policies, determining the reading level of a math textbook, attendance policies, other conferences of interest, and collaboration on research projects. Perhaps this resource is underutilized, but no one can see the group messages as unwanted junk mail. 

Recommendations for future action:

We hope that the negotiations between Prentice Hall and the NADE board will proceed with reasonable speed so that Best Practices 2 can finally be published. The original projected publication date was late summer 2003.

Indicate any specific SPIN issues for which you would like NADE Board input.

none

Do the NADE Yellow Pages (www.nade.net) accurately reflect the names and contact information of your current SPIN leadership? Yes.  If no, please attach an updated list.

List contact information for the designated SPIN Chair fee waiver recipient.  (Limit of one fee waiver per national committee (See Policy Handbook C-8, IIB)