News & Recent Postings

98th BCcupms Meeting
Our 98th meeting was held via Zoom on June 16 and June 18, 2020.

Items Posted Following the Meeting:

     Ministry of Education: K-12 Learning in 2020/21
          (Emilie Hillier, Executive Director, Strategic Policy and Integration, Education Programs Division, BC Ministry of Education)

     BCcampus: STEM Open Education Project
          (Melanie Myers, Project Manager, Business & STEM Programs, Open Education, BCcampus)

     BCcampus: Open Homework Systems Project
          (Clint Lalonde, Project Manager, BCcampus and Shirin Boroushaki, Math Department, TRU)

     Top 20 Essential Math Proficiencies for students entering first-year...

Mathematics Proficiencies for Post-Secondary Math/Stat Courses: Full Report
(Leo Neufeld, February 1999)

Items Posted Prior to the Meeting:

Agendas and Minutes

Draft Agenda for 98th meeting June 16/18 (PDF, posted June 1, 2020)
Unapproved Minutes from 97th meeting at College of the Rockies (PDF, posted June 6, 2020)
Draft Agenda for Stats Subcommittee Meeting (PDF, posted June 15, 2020)
Unapproved Minutes from 2019 Stats Subcommittee Meeting (PDF, posted June 15, 2020)

Institutional Reports

2020 BCcupms Institutional Reports indexed by institution (PDF, posted June 1, 2020)
2020 BCcupms Collective Report indexed by topic (PDF, posted June 1, 2020)
BCcupms 2020 Institutional Report Template (Word document)

BCCAT Communications

BCCAT Spring Update 2020 (PDF, posted June 7, 2020)
BCCAT list of pending articulation requests (PDF, posted June 7, 2020)
Math Flexible Pre-Major Update 2019 (PDF, posted Jan 13, 2020)

Core Calculus Surveys and Reports

Core Calculus for Science Report (PDF, posted Jan 13, 2020)
Core Calculus for Science Survey (PDF, 37pp, 215 questions, posted May 7, 2019)
Core Calculus for Business and Social Sciences Report (PDF, posted Jan 13, 2020)
Core Calculus for Business and Social Sciences Survey (PDF, 33pp, 178 questions, posted May 7, 2019)

97th BCcupms Meeting
College of the Rockies, May 14-15, 2019

Items Posted Following the Meeting:

Approved Minutes from the 2018 Meeting at Capilano U (PDF, posted June 3, 2019)
(From BCCAT) BCCAT Spring Update 2019 (PDF, posted May 17, 2019)
(From BCCAT) Pending Articulation Requests (PDF, posted May 17, 2019)
(From BCCAT) Powerpoint Presentation on New Curriculum from MoE (PPTX, posted May 17, 2019)
(From BCCAT) BC Education Planner (link, posted May 17, 2019) 2019)
Mathematics Flexible Pre-Major Report from 2015 (PDF, corrected and re-posted May 24, 2019)

Items Posted Prior to the Meeting:

Final drafts of Agenda and Overview (PDFs, posted May 7, 2019)
Proposed Statistics Subcommittee Agenda (PDF, posted March 17, 2019)
Unapproved Minutes from the 96th meeting at Capilano University, including Stats Subcommittee minutes (PDF, posted May 6, 2019)
Follow-up from MoE on questions raised in minutes (PDF, posted May 6, 2019)
Engineering Common Core Final Report (link, posted March 17, 2019)
(From BCCAT) Flexible Pre-Major Document (PDF, posted March 19, 2019)
(From BCCAT) Statement on Respectful Behaviour at Articulation Meetings from BCCAT (PDF, posted March 26, 2019)

Articulation Resources

Calculus Transfer Equivalencies - see BCCAT site or download PDF
Mathematics Flexible Pre-Major Project - see BCCAT site or download PDF

This Year's Featured Mathematician

The year 2019 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Raymond Smullyan (1919 - 2017), whose publications include books on retrograde analysis chess problems, a series of popular and entertaining puzzle books, as well as books on the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic.

See the MacTutor History of Math archive for more information about Raymond Smullyan and his publications, and other historical figures in mathematics.

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