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SIGMAA on RUME Committee on Mentoring Report, January 08, 2002

This year we had two rounds of Mentoring Grants. In Summer 2001, we received and funded one proposal: Dubinsky (mentor) and Martinez-Planell, DiCristina, Gonzalez, and McGee were awarded $4000 for two projects - "Understanding Infinite Series" and "Linearity in 2D to Linearity in 3D."

In Fall 2001, we received five proposals and made the following three awards:

• $2200 to Rasmussen (mentor) and Keynes and Marrongelle for "resources that Help University Professors Adapt Research-Based Instructional Materials."

• $1750 to Krussel (mentor) and Bedros for "Students' Epistemological Views and Their Relationship to Understanding Indirect Proof."

• $2200 to Czarnocha and Prabhu (mentors) and Giraldo for "Visual-Numerical Coordination in Calculus One."

During the last funding cycle two questions arose on which we would like input from the membership before the next round of mentoring mini-grants. Should we have guidelines for the number of times that a particular mentoring team can be funded? And, should monies for mentoring be used to fund collaborations between or among researchers of comparable (or equal?) experience?

Submitted by Barbara Edwards, 1^st Co-chair.