Crack-a-Math Bowl<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 99th\nAnnual Meeting of the Texas Section of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA)\nwas hosted by Tarleton State University from March 28th<\/sup> to 30th<\/sup>.\nMcMurry University\u2019s Math Club was honored to attend the conference, and they\ncame back successfully\u2013 second place out of twenty universities in the Mathematics\nBowl Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The annual MAA Texas meeting gathers universities all over the state for a three-day long conference. The schedule included: Calculus\/Math Bowl Competition, undergraduate students\u2019 research talks, and speeches of keynote speakers who are outstanding mathematicians. To be the winners in the Math Bowl, each team of students have to solve math problems fast and correctly. The testing problems included Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Math History, amongst other subjects within the mathematical field.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n McMurry University\u2019s Math department maintains a good relationship with MAA Texas Section, and its goal is to bring students closer to professional students and instructors all over Texas, proficient in mathematics.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Cristina Roxana Dita, who has taught\nmath at McMurry since 2011, said: \u201cWhile at McMurry, I have taken students to\nthe MAA Texas conference three times. Grateful for the financial help from our university\nand SMAB members, we are able to continuously take students to this valuable\nexperience and compete state-wide with other schools.\u201d As a faculty member, Ms.\nDita firmly believes she has learned from this experience as well. \u201cI am glad I\nget the opportunities to meet with colleagues from other universities, support\nmy students in the competition, and to hear interesting talks that involve\nmathematics.\u201d Ms. Dita is also happy to be a bridge between our undergraduate\nstudents and possible graduate school opportunities. \u201cIf there are chances in\nthe conference, I usually try to introduce our students to other graduate\nfaculty. I believe these connections can help our students learn more about\ngraduate opportunities in mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compared with other big universities, McMurry does not offer special classes for students to study math history, or to learn and practice how to compete in a Math Bowl. But, this success is tightly related to the high quality of math classes McMurry offers, individual students\u2019 efforts, and the encouragement and support from our lovely, dedicated faculty.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI wanted to go to this conference because I\nthink the experience would help me to find ideas for my senior honors thesis.\nWinning the Math Bowl competition was not planned,\u201d commented Lydia Clarke, a\njunior majoring in math and computer science. As a female who majors in STEM\n(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), Clarke personally\nexperienced some gender judgements from some males. \u201cWomen also can do well\nwithin the STEM field. We can even do better,\u201d said Clarke. Clarke worked hard\nin her classes and always reached out for chances to achieve more than just\nclassroom success. \u201cWe had a really good cooperation in our math bowl team. The\nthree of us had good communication during the competition, which propelled our\nsuccess to second place,\u201d concluded Clarke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A small Math Bowl team with a small group of dedicated female math aficionados was the key to success at the 99th<\/sup> MAA Texas meeting. This is also the first time McMurry University placed top three in a Math Bowl Competition, which also brings big encouragements back to our campus. War Hawks, we got this! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crack-a-Math Bowl The 99th Annual Meeting of the Texas Section of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) was hosted by Tarleton State University from March 28th to 30th. 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