Jeff Clay
A Mathematics Education
major at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Jeff's main area of interest is teaching
middle
school mathematics. A proponent of active and cooperative learning in
mathematics classrooms, he has participated in three studies at UW-Eau Claire relating to
the use of technology in learning mathematics--working with Dr. Brian Bansenauer, Dr.
Andrew Balas, Dr. Marc Goulet, and Dr. Alexander Smith. He has made presentations at
UW-Eau Claire's Math Retreat Day, the 1999 Mathematical Association of America--Wisconsin
Section Meeting, the 1999 UW-System Symposium for Undergraduate Research, and the 1998
International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics. He will complete his
baccalaureate degree in the spring of 1999 by serving as an intern at Blair-Taylor Middle
School in Blair, WI--teaching 7th and 8th grade mathematics. Future plans include:
completing a paper on a qualitative study of a reform calculus course, teaching
mathematics at the middle school level, coaching football and rugby at the high school
level, thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail with his brother Matt, and most immediately
bringing in the new millenium with his closest friends and Phish at Big Cypress Seminole
Indian Reservation in southern Florida!