I was a speaker during the Council of Deans and Department Chairs of Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CODDCCAS) Region V General Assembly held from July 17, 2017 to July 18, 2017 at the Mariners’ Polytechnic Colleges in Naga City. I presented a talk about my experiences being a trainer in the Second-Generation GE Faculty Training.
Click here to get a copy of my slides.
The Department of Mathematics of the Ateneo de Naga University (ADNU) is organizing a series of seminar-workshops to be held on June 1, 2, and 3, 2017 at the Instructional Media Center of the ADNU main campus (at Bagumbayan Sur, Naga City). The resource speaker for all three seminar-workshops is Dr. Ian June L. Garces of Ateneo de Manila University.
The Seminar-Workshop on Formative Assessment and the Teaching of Math on June 1, 2017 (Thursday) has private and public high school (and possibly elementary) math teachers as the target audience.
The Coaches’ Training in Math Competitions on June 2, 2017 (Friday) has private and public high school math coaches as the target audience.
The Seminar-Workshop on Problem Solving and Mathematical Investigation on June 3, 2017 (Saturday) has high school and college math teachers and graduate students in math as the target audience.
Additional information about the seminar-workshops can be found here.
(This post is an English translation of this one.)
I am a trainer in the “Second-Generation GE Faculty Training” described in Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Memorandum Order (CMO) number 8 series of 2017 titled “Implementing Guidelines for the Faculty Training for the New General Education Core Courses: Second-Generation Training.”
Ateneo de Naga University (ADNU) is a Delivering Higher Education Institution for this training. (See this letter from the CHED Office of Programs and Standards Development and this Memorandum from the Chairperson for Region V.) I am a trainer for the course “Matematika sa Makabagong Daigdig” (Mathematics in the Modern World). The training will be held in ADNU from April 24, 2017 to May 13, 2017.
When the Bicol Science, Technology & Engineering Conference 2017 was cancelled, one of the plenary speakers, Aurelio Asug De Los Reyes V, agreed to still give his talk but to a smaller audience: the faculty, staff, and students of Ateneo de Naga University. The talk on mathematical modeling of physiological processes is being organized by ADNU’s Department of Mathematics, Department of Natural Sciences, and Graduate School on January 25, 2017 from 2 pm to 4 pm at the CCMF Amphitheater. Admission is free.
There were 291 participants who took the 19th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad Qualifying Stage for Region 5. Of these, 11 made it to the Area Stage:
The list of 55 area stage qualifiers for Luzon (excluding those from the National Capital Region) is here. There were 50 area stage qualifiers from NCR, 52 from Visayas, and 55 from Mindanao.
The Area Stage for Region 5 will be held on November 19, 2016 at the Ateneo de Naga University (Bagumbayan campus). The exam room is D414 on the fourth floor of the Francis C. Dolan, S.J. Hall; registration will be done on the first floor of the same building. Reproduced below is an announcement from the PMO staff:
Reminders for the Coaches and Students (Re: 19th PMO Area Stage)
- The PMO Area Stage is on November 19, 2016.
- Confirm the testing venue with the PMO coordinator in your region before the exam date. You may find his/her name, address and contact number at the PMO website (http://pmo.ph). S/he is the same coordinator during the qualifying stage.
- On November 19, 2016, arrive at the testing center early. Registration will begin at 1:00 noon and the exam will begin promptly at 2:00 pm and end at 5:00 pm. Late examinees will not be given additional time.
- The student must bring his/her school ID for identification.
- Each student must bring his/her own blue or black pen for the exam. (All final answers and solutions to the examination must be in blue or black ink.)
- Students will be allowed to use rulers, protractors and compasses.
- Calculators will not be allowed.
- The examination will consist of two parts. The first part has 20 answers-only questions and the second part has 3 open-ended questions.
- The names of the students who will qualify for the national stage will be released on or before December 20, 2016.
- The top 3 scorers in each area will be given medals and subsidized fare to attend the National Finals and Awarding Program.
Edit made on January 11, 2017: BiSTEC 2017 has been cancelled. Details can be found in the comment to this post.
The Ateneo de Naga University College of Science and Engineering is organizing the first Bicol Science, Technology & Engineering Conference (BiSTEC 2017) on January 25-27, 2017 at the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Naga City, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
The theme is “Science and Technology Towards Bicol Development” and the sub-themes are Science and Technology Innovations, Mathematical Modeling, Climate Change Adaptation, Computational Intelligence, Natural Products and Molecular Medicine, and Environmental Issues and Problems. The plenary speakers are Fabian M. Dayrit, Joel S. Marciano, Jr., Aurelio Asug De Los Reyes V, Carlo A. Arcilla, Bryan Martin, and Allan A. Sioson.
Click here to see the BiSTEC 2017 brochure containing a call for papers.
The 19th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad Qualifying Stage for Region V will be held this October 22, 2016, Saturday, at the Ateneo de Naga University, Naga City, Camarines Sur. The exam rooms are at the second and third floors of the Francis C. Dolan, S.J. Hall; registration will be done in the same building.
If you sent your application forms through e-mail, please bring the original application forms with you and submit them to the registration staff on October 22, 2016, if possible.
Participants and coaches must bring identification cards that have ID pictures, preferably those issued by their schools.
Registration starts at 10:00 am. Participants should be in their assigned rooms by 1:45 pm. The exam will start at 2:00 pm and is expected to last 2 hours. Participants who arrive late must take the exam in a room reserved for late-comers (and not their assigned room) so as not to disturb the other participants who started on time. The exam ends at 4:00 pm, even for those who arrived late.
Once the exam has started, participants may not leave the room until it has ended. Participants who need to use the bathroom must do so before the exam starts.
Participants who leave the room before the exam has ended are considered to have finished the exam; they must submit their questionnaires and answer sheets to the proctor before they leave and they are not allowed to return to continue the exam.
The only materials that the students are allowed to have on their desks immediately before the examination are: blue or black ballpoint pen, pencil, eraser, ruler, compass, and protractor. All other items such as notes, books, cellular phones, etc. are not allowed on your desks, but these may be placed in a designated area in the room. Calculators are not allowed.
Right now I’m a participant in a training sponsored by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and given by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU). I’m being trained to possibly train other teachers how to teach a new general education college course called “Matematika sa Makabagong Daigdig” (Mathematics in the Modern World) to be offered starting 2018. One of our problems is that there are practically no existing materials (articles, textbooks) written in Filipino about college-level mathematics. To try to address this problem, I’ve decided to create another blog that focuses on this new course. The URL is https://matematikasmd.wordpress.com/ . I hope to provide information and resources that will be of help to teachers and students of this course. (Note that it is a personal blog, and is in no way affiliated with CHED, ADMU, or any other institution.)
The Philippine Mathematical Olympiad, a nationwide mathematics competition open to all junior and senior high school students of the Philippines, is carried out in three stages.
The qualifying stage (to be held on October 22, 2016, Saturday) consists of a written exam administered in fourteen (I think) regional testing sites. The exam consists of fifteen multiple-choice questions worth 2 points each, ten multiple-choice questions worth 3 points each, and five answers-only questions worth 6 points each.
The area stage (to be held on November 19, 2016, Saturday) consists of a written exam administered in testing sites for the four areas (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and National Capital Region). The exam consists of twenty answers-only questions and three open-ended questions that require full solutions.
The national stage (to be held on January 21, 2017, Saturday) consists of a written exam and an oral exam administered in Metro Manila. The written exam consists of four open-ended questions that require full solutions to be answered in 4.5 hours. The oral exam (which is open to the public) consists of 30 questions read to the participants and to be answered within a specified time for each item.
Each school may send up to twenty participants (students with a final grade of 88% (or its equivalent) in mathematics in the previous school year). The participants with the top fifty scores in the qualifying stage per area will qualify for the area stage. The participants with the top twenty scores (national ranking) in the area stage will qualify for the national stage. The national finalists will be qualified to join the International Mathematical Olympiad Summer Camp (IMOSC). The representatives of the country to the International Mathematical Olympiad will be selected from the participants of the IMOSC.
A copy of the Department of Education Advisory number 244, series of 2016 about the 19th PMO is here.
I am the regional coordinator for Region V (Bicol Region). Schools in Region V that are interested in participating should complete the official application form and submit it to me on or before 12:00 noon of September 23, 2016 (Friday). My contact information can be found in the official brochure.
(This announcement is taken from http://www.fape.org.ph/.)
The Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC) invites researchers to submit papers for the upcoming issue of the Philippine Education Research Journal (PERJ), the official research publication of the PEAC.
PERJ is an online, open access journal that is published twice a year. It serves as a platform for the dissemination of research that focuses on Philippine education and of interest to decision-makers, policy-makers, and educational leaders and practitioners in the country.
PERJ is seeking previously unpublished articles of original research. Interested researchers should read the PERJ Editorial Policies and Procedures, Author Guidelines, and Review Guidelines.
Those interested should email their article to denise.adriano@fape.org.ph and indicate “PERJ 2016-2017 Submission” as subject. The PEAC National Secretariat will accept article submissions until April 30, 2016.
For inquiries, please call the Communications and Research Unit at (02) 845-0169 local 150 or 162.
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