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KME Meeting
October 11, 2006

  • Attendance: Jennifer Newberg, Tara DeMay, Sarah Cane, Stephanie Heaton, Chris Barenz, Dennis Norton, Breanne Hoffman, Carla Webb, Scott Mikos
  • Dr. Boris Announcements:

The Department gave $150 and we have $200 from what the department matched and money left over from last year.  We spent $40 on pizza so we are at $310 right now.  We set up an account with Citizen Bank.

  • The members’ goals for KME
    • Be involved with the campus
    • Be involved with the high school
    • Get guest speakers to come
    • Show the campus how important math is
    • Make KME more than a social organization
    • Be involved with the community
    • Start expanding the club
    • Discuss something about math every meeting
    • Keep math in mind ALL times
    • Get the faculty involved

  • Activities we would like to do
    • Textbook collection
    • Have guest speakers
    • Set up some sort of tutoring with the area schools
    • Fundraising
    • Pi day
    • Math awareness month
    • Graphing calculator seminar
    • Get involved with Math Team
    • 391 students can do a run through of their presentations for the group
    • Look at some problems and discuss them as a group

  • Goals to start right away
    • Graphing Calculator seminar
      • Start planning now
      • Start next semester
    • Contact schools about tutoring
      • Talk to America Counts for contacts and more tutors
      • Start this either the 1st or 2nd week of November
      • We need to figure out what age group to target
      • Breanne will contact the school
    • Recruitment
      • Invite anyone who is interested in math, doesn’t have to be math major or minor
      • Talk to our math classes
      • Mass e-mails
      • Personalized invitations
      • Math interest meetings
        • Show how math can be exciting
      • Make flyers
        • Carla will make these
        • Put them in different buildings not just Morgan

 

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY AT 6:00 PM!!!!!