Office: Wilson 2-210
Phone: (406) 994-3322
Receptionist: (406) 994-3601
Fax: (406) 994-1789
E-Mail: burroughs@math.montana.edu

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2013

• M 329: Modern Geometry
  

Research Projects

• EMC Examining Mathematics Coaching
• Teaching Calculus with Gender in Mind, with Jessica Deshler of West Virginia University

Links

• EMC Examining Mathematics Coaching
• AMTE The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
• NCTM The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• MAA The Mathematical Association of America
• MCTM Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• AWM The Association for Women in Mathematics
  
• Humboldt State University Department of Mathematics
  
• University of New Mexico Mathematics Department
  
• State of Jefferson Mathematics Congress

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

• Watts, Christina M., Cao, Jing, Panza, Christopher, Dugaw, Christopher, Colwell, Mark, and Burroughs, Elizabeth A. A discrete time stochastic model for the population of the Western Snowy Plover. Natural Resource Modeling. 2012.
• Sutton, John, Burroughs, Elizabeth A. and Yopp, David (2011). Coaching knowledge: Domains and definitions. Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership. Vol. 13 (2), pp. 12-20.


• Yopp, David, Burroughs, Elizabeth A., and Lindaman, Brian (2011). Why it is important for in-service elementary teachers to understand the equality 999...=1. Journal of Mathematical Behavior. Vol. 30 (4), pp. 304-318.


• Yopp, David, Burroughs, Elizabeth A., Luebeck, Jennifer, Heidema, Clare, Mitchell, Arlene, and Sutton, John (2011). How to be a wise consumer of coaching: Strategies teachers can use to maximize coaching's benefits. Journal of Staff Development, 32(1), pp 50-53.


• Burroughs, Elizabeth and Yopp, David (2010) . Pre-service mathematics teachers' understanding of repeating decimal concepts, Investigations in Mathematics Learning, Vol 3(1), pp. 23-42.


• Burroughs, Elizabeth and Luebeck, Jennifer (2010). Including pre-service teachers in mathematics lesson study, The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast, Vol 7 (3), pp. 391 - 400.


• Burke, Maurice and Burroughs, Elizabeth. Using CAS to explore historical problems, Mathematics Teacher, 2009.


• Burroughs, Elizabeth and Evans, Tyler. The Chinese Remainder Theorem, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2009.


• Brown, Sharon and Elizabeth Burroughs, Poster Projects: Mathematics in Context, PRIMUS (Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies), Vol 18, Issue 5 (2008), p 475 - 487.


• 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

• instructional coaching in elementary mathematics classrooms
• connections between the mathematics pre-service teachers study as undergraduates and the mathematics they will teach to school students
• developing courses appropriate for pre-service mathematics teacher preparation programs