Matt DeLong is Professor of Mathematics at Marian University in Indianapolis, where he served as Chair of the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences for the past six years. Prior to that he was on faculty at Taylor University for 20 years, including the last two as Chair of the Department of Mathematics. He has also held visiting faculty positions at The University of Michigan and Harvey Mudd College. Matt earned a BA in Mathematics, Economics, and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan.
At Marian Matt has chaired the Promotion and Tenure Committee and served on the General Education Committee, the Teaching and Learning Committee, and the Self-study Review Board. At Taylor Matt held various faculty leadership positions, including Faculty Moderator, Co-chair of the Shared Governance Taskforce, and Co-chair of the Strategic Planning Taskforce.
Matt has an interest in faculty development, and he served as Fellow of Taylor’s Bedi Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence for 10 years and also as an Associate Director of Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) Project NExT from 2012–2021. Matt has also served the MAA in a variety of ways, including as Chair of the Indiana Section and (currently) Chair of the Council on Meetings. Matt is also Academic Director of MathPath, an advanced summer program for middle-school students. Matt has published in the areas of Algebraic Number Theory, Knot Theory, Mathematics Education, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He was awarded the Alder and Haimo awards for distinguished teaching from the MAA. His hobbies outside of mathematics include singing, watching football and movies with his family, and eating a variety of cuisines.
MAT 230 Calculus I MAT 231 Calculus II MAT 490 Senior Seminar MAT 130 Statistics in the Contemporary World
“MAA Project NExT: Community during a Critical Transition,” with Julie Barnes, Alissa Crans, Dave Kung, and Christine Stevens, in Count Me In: Community and Belonging in Mathematics, Dumbaugh andHaunsperger Eds., The America Mathematical Society, pp. 203-214 (2021).
Book Study Guide for The MAA Instructional Practices Guide, with Emily Braley, Priscilla Bremser, Aimee J. Ellington, Gulden Karakok, Krystina K. Leganza, Jessica M. Libertini & Erica R. Miller. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Mathematical Association of America (2020).
“Mastery Problems Promote Polished Proofs in Abstract Algebra,” in Beyond Lecture: Techniques to Improve Student Proof-Writing Across the Curriculum, Schwell, Steurer and Vasquez Eds., MAA Notes Series, No. 85, pp. 293-298 (2016).
“Colorability and Determinants of T(m,n, r, s) Twisted Torus Knots for n equivalent to plus or minus 1 mod m” with Matthew Russell and Jonathan Schrock, Involve,
Volume 8, No. 3, pp. 361-384 (2015).
“Lesson Planning Practices of Mathematics Teaching Assistants: Procedures and Resources” with Joe Wesley and Dale Winter, Studies in Graduate and Professional Student Development, Volume 12, pp. 97-110 (2009).
“Using Elliptic Curves to Produce Quadratic Number Fields of High Three Rank,” Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Volume 34, No. 2, pp. 599-618 (2004).
Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn Mathematics: Resources for Professional Development with Dale Winter, MAA Notes Series, No. 57 (2001).
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