MAA’s first meeting will be on Thursday, Sept. 2nd at 5:00pm in the math/CS student organizations room. The club is open for anyone interested in math, not just math majors.

At that meeting we will start to get ideas of events and plan dates.

KME will have their first meeting Sept. 7 @ 5:30 in VH 1148!

Our first MASSE (Mathematics Students for Secondary Education) meeting will be Sunday, September 12, at 6pm in VH 1212.

Refreshments will be provided.  Your contact person this year for masse will be secretary Kaitlynn Jansen so if you have any questions, please contact her.

Do you like to work on cleverly designed mathematical problems?  If so, you should consider taking the Putnam Exam.  This is a mathematical competition which takes place on the first Saturday of December every year and is open to undergraduates in the U.S.A. and Canada.  Detailed information can be found at http://math.scu.edu/putnam/index.html .  If you wish to participate in the competition or would like to know more, please see Professor Michael Adams in VH2148.  The deadline for registration is early October so don’t delay!

A new alumni newsletter went up at http://mathcs.truman.edu/alumni.asp

Dr. Bob Matthews, Michael Price, Michael Solomon, and Michael Rodriguez at the CCSC contest

Michael Price, Michael Rodriguez, Michael Solomon and coach Bob Matthews traveled to the CCSC Regional Programming Contest at Park University in Parkville, MO this past Saturday (Apr. 12).  The students successfully solved three out of six programming problems (tying with the first and second place teams in the number of problems solved), and were awarded third place out of 17 teams.  The students each received a prize of $30.

Truman students Xiang Li, Hoang Pham, and Zach Whitehouse took second place in the Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition held last week at the University of Central Missouri.  Thirty-six teams from across the state gathered to attempt to solve ten challenging problems during the two day event that took place as part of the 2010 MAA Missouri Section Meeting.  A second Truman team consisting of Elle Little, Mara Mudd, and Charles Tomlinson also finished ranked in the top of half teams participating.