Stuart Boersma

Professor of Mathematics at Central Washington University

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Recent Publications (available online)

  • Quantitative Reasoning in the Contemporary World, 3: Assessing Student Learning
  • Measuring Habits of Mind: Toward a Prompt-less Instrument for Assessing Quantitative Literacy
  • Using a Media-Article Approach to Quantitative Reasoning as an Honors Course: An Exploratory Study
  • Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with the News
  • Moving Forward by Traveling in Circles
  • False Positives and Referral Bias: Content for a Quantitative Literacy Course
  • A Difficult Climb
  • Finding Geodesics

Complete Listing

  1. Stuart Boersma and Dominic Klyve, "Teaching Quantitative Reasoning as an Honors Course", Numeracy 6, no. 1, 2013.
  2. Stuart Boersma and Dominic Klyve "Measuring Habits of Mind: Toward a Prompt-less Instrument for Assessing Quantitative Literacy", Numeracy 6, no. 1, 2013.
  3. Bernard Madison, Stuart Boersma, Caren Diefenderfer, Shannon Dingman, "Case Studies for Quantitative Reasoning: A Casebook of Media Articles, 3rd ed." (textbook), Pearson, 2012.
  4. Cheryl Beaver, Stuart Boersma, "KRYPTOS: A Paci c Northwest Cryptanalysis Contest for Undergraduates", Cryptologia, 36:2, 149-256, 2010.
  5. Stuart Boersma, Caren Diefenderfer, Shannon W. Dingman, and Bernard L. Madison, "Quantitative Reasoning in the Contemporary World 3: Assessing Student Learning", Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy, 4 (2), July, 2011.
  6. Stuart Boersma, ``Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with the News'', Pedagogy in Action, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College, 2009.
  7. Stuart Boersma, Tevian Dray, Stan Wagon, ``Finding Geodesics'' (a letter to the Editor), Math Horizons, Setember, 2009.
  8. Bernard Madison, Stuart Boersma, Caren Diefenderfer, Shannon Dingman, ``Case Studies for Quantitative Reasoning: A Casebook of Media Articles'' (textbook), Pearson Custom Publishing, 2009.
  9. Stuart Boersma, ``Networks and Graphs'', a chapter in Advanced Mathematical Decision Making, Dana Center, University of Texas at Austin, April 2009.
  10. Stuart Boersma, ``A Difficult Climb or Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Paths'', Math Horizons, February 2009.
  11. Stuart Boersma, ``Moving Forward by Traveling in Circles'', SIURO: SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, 1 (1), 2008.
  12. Stuart Boersma and Teri Willard, ``False Positives and Referral Bias: Content for a Quantitative Literacy Course'', Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy, 1 (2), 2008.
  13. Stuart Boersma, Garrett McGowan, ``See The Light! A Nice Application of Calculus to Chemistry'', PRIMUS, XVII (2), pp 125--130, 2007.
  14. Stuart Boersma, ``A Mathematician's Look at Foucault's Pendulum'', Math Horizons, February, 2005. This paper received special recognition as a Trevor Evans award winning paper in August 2006.
  15. Stuart Boersma, Michele Hluchy, ``Angle of Repose: An Interdisciplinary Lively Application'', PRIMUS, XII, (1), pp 53 -- 60, 2002.
  16. Stuart Boersma, Michele Hluchy, Gordon Godshalk, Johanna Crane, David DeGraff, and Jim Blauth, ``An Interdisciplinary, Process-based, Student-designed, Introductory Science Course,'' Journal Of College Science Teaching, XXX, (6), pp 397 -- 402, 2001.
  17. Gordon Godshalk, Stuart Boersma, Sensitivity Analysis of ``Regional Guidebook for Assessing the Functions of Low Gradient, Riverine Wetlands in Western Kentucky'', Abstracts of Contributed Papers, 19th Annual Meeting of Society of Wetland Scientists, Anchorage Alaska, p. 80, 1998.
  18. Stuart Boersma, Tevian Dray, ``Slicing, Threading, and Parametric Manifolds," Gen. Rel.Grav. 27 (3), pp 319-339, 1995.
  19. Stuart Boersma, Tevian Dray, ``Parametric Manifolds. I: Extrinsic Approach," J. Math. Phys. 36 (3), pp 1378-1393, 1995.
  20. Stuart Boersma \& Tevian Dray, ``Parametric Manifolds. II: Intrinsic Approach," J.Math. Phys. 36 (3), pp 1394-1403, 1995.