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Grants and Publications


Grants
  • Recipient, 2007 TENSOR grant from The TENSOR Foundation through the Mathematical Association of America to mentor two women faculty in the teaching of a course for future K-12 teachers on Women and Mathematics; make course materials readily available to others; recruit course graduates to share with other future teachers the knowledge they gained from the course about (a) women's contributions to mathematics throughout history and (b) K-12 gender equity issues; and prepare course graduates as workshop leaders for an math/science career day for junior high girls. See http://www.maa.org/programs/tensor_solic.html
  • Recipient, 2004 SENCER grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to support an interdisciplinary faculty team to develop a math core course based on modeling environmental problems in Los Angeles. SENCER stands for Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities which is AAC&U's NSF-funded initiative to improve science education by teaching math and science through real world problems. http://www.aacu-edu.org/SENCER/index.cfm
  • Campus Coordinator (and collaborator on the grant proposal) for Loyola Marymount University in the Los Angeles Collaborative for Teacher Excellence, a 5-year, $5,500,000 NSF-funded initiative with the goal of improving K-12 teacher preparation programs in science and mathematics at ten Los Angeles area colleges and universities. http://www.lacteonline.org
Books and Book Chapters
  • Co-author (with D. Zill). Precalculus with Calculus Previews: Expanded Volume, (4th edition), Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2009.
  • Co-author (with D. Zill). Precalculus with Calculus Previews, (4th edition), Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007.
  • Co-author (with S. Larson and T. Zachariah). Quantitative Literacy Through Community Based Projects: An Emerging Model Course, Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (http://www.sencer.net/models.cfm), 2006.
  • "Increasing Math Majors' Success and Confidence though Problem Solving and Writing." In Rosamond, Frances and Larry Copes (eds.). Educational Transformations: The Influences of Stephen I. Brown. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006.
  • Co-author (with J. Kasabian). Future Teachers Conference Planning Handbook (2nd edition). Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Collaborative for Teacher Excellence and Washington Mutual Bank, 2003.
  • Co-author (with J. Kasabian). Meet the Teachers Roundtable: Connecting Future Teachers with Role Model Teachers Planning Handbook (2nd edition). Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Collaborative for Teacher Excellence and Washington Mutual Bank, 2003.
  • Co-author (with S. Larson, and T. Zachariah). Developing Successful Mathematics Majors: Instructor Manual and Student Manual. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Collaborative for Teacher Excellence, 2000.
  • Co-author (with D. Zill). Algebra and Trigonometry, (2nd edition), Algebra, (2nd edition) and Trigonometry, (2nd edition). New York: McGraw Hill, 1990.
  • Co-author (with D. Zill and S. Wright). Basic Mathematics for Calculus, (3rd edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1988.
Articles
  • Dewar, J. (2008). Student Ratings of Teaching: An Oft-Overlooked Aspect Worth Your Attention. Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter. 38(6), 21-23.
  • "An Apology for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," InSight: A Journal for Scholarly Teaching, 3, 2008, pp. 17-22.
  • "What is mathematics: Student and faculty views." Electronic Proceedings for the Eleventh Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, San Diego, CA 2008. See this link.
  • "Developing and applying a taxonomy for mathematical knowledge-expertise." Co-authored with C. Bennett. Electronic Proceedings for the Tenth Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, San Diego CA, 2007. See this link.
  • "Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: What? and Why Now?" Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter. November-December 2007, 37(6), pp. 26-28.
  • "What you really ought to know about collaboration on a SoTL project," co-authored with C. Bennett, National Teaching and Learning Forum, December 2004.
  • A Future Teachers Conference - A Vehicle to Retain, Inform, and Inspire New and Prospective Teachers, co-authored with J. Kasabian and L. Fathe, Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations, 5(2), Fall 2002, pp. 181-188.
  • "Addressing Gender Equity in Mathematics for Preservice Elementary Teachers," Undergraduate Mathematics Education Trends, 6(3) July 1994, p. 2.
  • "Using the Computer Language LOGO to Provide College Students With a Mathematical Experience," Collegiate Microcomputer, IX(1), February 1991, pp. 59-61.
  • "Recruitment and Retention of Students in Undergraduate Mathematics," co-authored with P. Kenschaft, M. Cooney, V. Kraines, B. Latka, and B. LiSanti, The College Mathematics Journal, 21(4) September 1990, pp. 294-301.
  • "Incorporating Computer Literacy Into a Mathematics Course for Preservice Elementary Teachers," Mathematics and Computer Education, 20(3) Fall 1986, pp. 155-159.
  • "Another Look at the Teaching of Percent," The Arithmetic Teacher, 31(7) March 1984, pp. 48-49.
  • "The Selling of Mathematics: A Career Night Approach," California Mathematics, 8(1) April 1983, pp. 20-23.
  • "Are College Women Being Educated for Success?" Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 13(2) March-April, 1983.
  • "Math Science Interchange: A Los Angeles Network," Proceedings, 63rd Annual Meeting, pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science, June 1982.
  • "Math Anxiety in Women: A Perspective by Two Women Mathematicians," co-authored with R. Afflack, Proceedings, Seventh Annual Conference on Feminist Psychology, March 1980.
Book Reviews
  • Judith E. Jacobs, Joanne Rossi Becker, Gloria F. Gilmer (eds.). Changing the Faces of Mathematics: Perspectives on Gender. In Teaching Children Mathematics, 8(5), January 2002, pp. 299-300.
  • Claudia Zaslavsky. Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture. In Teaching Children Mathematics, 6(9), May 2000, p. 200.
  • Third International Mathematics and Science Study, U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Attaining Excellence: A TIMSS Resource Kit. In Teaching Children Mathematics 5.1 September 1998, pp. 59-60.
  • Janet Trentacosta (ed.). Multicultural and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom: The Gift of Diversity. In Teaching Children Mathematics 4(5) January 1998, p. 295.
  • Jean Moon and Linda Schulman. Finding the Connections: Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Curriculum in Elementary Mathematics. In Teaching Children Mathematics 3(8), April 1997, pp. 461-2.
  • Walter G. Secada, Elizabeth Fennema, and Lisa Byrd Adajian. New Directions for Equity in Mathematics Education. In Teaching Children Mathematics 2.7 March 1996, p. 440.
  • Rebecca Lowe Warren and Mary H. Thompson. The Scientist Within You: Experiments and Biographies of Distinguished Women in Science. In Teaching Children Mathematics 1(9), May 1995, p. 588.
  • Addventures for Girls. In Teaching Children Mathematics 1(1), September, 1994.