Meal tickets for the INMAA spring section meeting are available for just a little longer! Purchase your meal tickets as registration Add-ons by *noon* (EDT) on Wednesday, April 1. This is a firm deadline from the caterer. www.eventbrite.com/e/indiana-ma...
Last chance to get your meal tickets for the Spring INMAA meeting! Tickets for the Friday banquet and Saturday lunch must be purchased through the meeting registration process by the end of the day on Thur, 3/26. Abstracts for talks/posters are also due on 3/26. www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/spr...
Our Section Historian, Rick Gillman, has published his Spring 2026 article "Thirty Years Ago This Year" about various happenings in the Indiana Section in 1996: www.indiana.maa.org/lookingback/...
Enjoy the article, and register for the upcoming section meeting! www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/spr...
Registration is now open for the Spring 2026 INMAA meeting, happening 4/10-4/11 at Purdue University Fort Wayne! Please visit www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/spr... for more information.
Deadlines:
Hotel group rate: 3/22
Meal tickets: 3/26
Talk/poster submissions: 3/26
ICMC team registration: 4/6
The Spring 2026 INMAA meeting will be held on Fri 4/10 & Sat 4/11 at Purdue Fort Wayne! See www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/spr.... More details will be posted as they become available, and registration will open soon. Submit talk/poster abstracts at purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... by Mar 27.
The INMAA is accepting nominations for the 2026 Crawford Teaching Award and Distinguished Service Award!
For more info, please see www.indiana.maa.org/news/call-fo....
The nominator of the Crawford Award recipient will receive a $100 credit toward future section meeting registration and meals.
The INMAA Fall 2025 meeting is coming up soon on Saturday, Oct. 18 at Taylor University! Check-in starts at 8:30, and the meeting concludes at 4:00. A schedule of talks and other events is posted at www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/fal.... Please don't forget to register, and we hope to see you there!
A reminder to register for the Fall 2025 INMAA meeting, which will take place on Saturday, October 18 at Taylor University! The deadline to book a hotel room at the group rate is September 26, and talk/poster proposals are due by October 4. www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/fal....
Edited by @adamcoffman.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy, Justin Gash, Rick Gillman, and John Rickert, The Indiana Mathematics Competition problem book could be used by students and coaches in a problem solving class, and it would also make a great gift or library order!
The Indiana College Mathematics Competition (2001-2023) problem book is now available in a (slightly less expensive) softcover format! Purchases through this @springer.springernature.com link generate royalties that support student activities in the Indiana MAA: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Rick Gillman (INMAA Section Historian) has released his Fall 2025 article! It sketches the history of the MAA's Distinguished Teaching Awards from their inception in 1991 and celebrates the Indiana Section recipients. Enjoy!
www.indiana.maa.org/lookingback/...
Registration is now open for the Fall 2025 Indiana Section meeting at Taylor University! Please visit the meeting website at www.indiana.maa.org/meetings/fal... to register, book a hotel, and submit a proposal for a contributed talk or poster.
Hope to see you there!
Pictures from our recent tri-state meeting with Kentucky and Ohio sections of the MAA are up now:
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We're excited for our tri-state meeting with Kentucky and Ohio tomorrow. Check out the Kentucky sectional page for more details: sections.maa.org/kentucky/mee...
Application Deadline Extended!
Due to the Mathjobs server outage, the deadline for the AMS-Simons Travel Grants program has been extended to Monday, April 14, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EDT. #MathSky
We've extended the deadlines for the teaching and service awards:
www.indiana.maa.org/news/tkmnszvp7s50ld7877zu7gcrzjiai2
"This article discusses the current revision process for College GAISE. We describe how all faculty who teach statistics and data science can participate in the process, and how they will be able to most effectively use the new revision when it is released."
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Our own Rick Gillman wrote about the involvement of the Indiana Section in Mathfest that was held in Indianapolis during the first week of August, 2024.
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Hey #MathSky, check out Adam Coffman's photos from the MAA Mathfest that happened in Indianapolis.
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Frame 1: Person labeled "anyone" says "I wish I was a math person" to a genie. Frame 2: Genie says "It is done" Frame 3: "anyone" says "nothing's changed Frame 4: Genie says "correct"
"I wish I was a math person"
We're accepting nominations for the teaching award and the service award until January 15, 2024. www.indiana.maa.org/news/section...
Save this for a lesson on recursion #MathSky
A picture of a normal curve labeled "normal distribution" with a picture of a sheet-draped ghost with a similar outline labeled "paranormal distribution."
No, but I will be discussing the paranormal distribution!
Venn diagrams with a Halloween theme.
Anyone teaching their students boolean searches today?
Happy Halloween! 🦇 🎃 👻
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Some interesting talks lined up for this conference which you can attend via Zoom after free registration: cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mathem...
Regular pentagon inscribed in a circle with chords connecting one vertex to all the others, and lengths whose product is equal to 5.
Regular dodecagon inscribed in a circle with chords connecting one vertex to all the others, and lengths whose product is equal to 5.
Fun one to visualize in #Desmos #Geometry - Given a regular n-gon inscribed in a unit circle, the product of the chords from one vertex of the polygon to all the others is equal to n. www.desmos.com/geometry/pb3...
Inspiration from this delightful poster: diffgeom.com/products/pro...
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