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Dr. Beth Burroughs
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Montana State University
PO Box 172400
Bozeman, MT 59717-2400

Office: Wilson 2-225
Phone: (406) 994-3322
Receptionist: (406) 994-3601
Fax: (406) 994-1789
E-Mail: burrough@math.montana.edu
Office Hours: (June 23-July 11) MW 10 - 10:50; T Th 3:30 - 4:20; F by appointment.


Teaching Schedule

  • Algebraic Thinking in the Middle Grades, Math 424
    (June 23 - July 11) MTWRF 7:30 - 9:50, Wilson 1-117
    syllabus

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Education

    Ph.D. (Mathematics), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2003
    Dissertation: Convection in a Closed-Loop Thermosyphon: Bifurcation and Stabilit y Analysis

    MA(Mathematics), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1999

    Teaching Certificate , Post-Baccalaureate Education Program, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, 1995

    BA (Mathematics and English), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1992



Publications

  • Brown, Sharon and Elizabeth Burroughs, Poster Projects: Mathematics in Context, to appear in Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies (PRIMUS).

  • Shryock, Kacee A., Sharon L. Brown, Nathan J. Sanders, and Elizabeth Burroughs, A Reaction-Diffusion Equation Modeling the Invasion of the Argentine Ant Population, Linepithema Humile, at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, Natural Resource Modeling, Vol 21, No. 2 (2008), p 330-342.

  • Burroughs, Elizabeth, Encouraging Mathematics Teachers as Mathematicians, Mathematics Teacher, Vol 100 (2007), No 7, p 464 - 469.

  • Burroughs, Elizabeth, Evangelos Coutsias, and Louis Romero, A Reduced-order Partial Differential Equation Model for the Flow in a Thermosyphon, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 543 (2005) 203 - 237.

  • Salinger, Andrew, Elizabeth Burroughs, Roger Pawlowski, Eric Phipps, and Louis Romero, Bifurcation Tracking Algorithms and Software for Large-Scale Applications, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2005) 1015 - 1032.

  • Burroughs, Elizabeth, Louis Romero, Richard Lehoucq, and Andrew Salinger, Linear Stability of Flow in a Differentially Heated Cavity via Large-Scale Eigenvalue Calculations, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 14, No. 6 (2004) 803 - 822.

  • Salinger, Andrew, Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Roger Pawlowski, Edward Wilkes, Elizabeth Burroughs, Richard Lehoucq, and Louis Romero, LOCA 1.0 Library of Continuation Algorithms: Theory and Implementation Manual, Technical Report SAND2002-0396, Sandia National Laboratories, March 2002.

  • Burroughs, Elizabeth, Louis Romero, Richard Lehoucq, and Andrew Salinger, Large-Scale Eigenvalue Calculations for Computing the Stability of Buoyancy Driven Flows, Technical Report SAND2001-0113, Sandia National Laboratories, May 2001.


Research Interests

  • connections between the mathematics pre-service teachers study as under graduates and the mathematics they will teach to school students
  • developing courses appropriate for pre-service mathematics teacher pre paration programs
  • creating contextually authentic focused curricula in school-level mathematic s