| Day | Date | Activity | Assignment |
| Wed | 1/16 | Welcome: Fun and Games | Read A Mathematician's Lament, by Paul Lockhart. We will be discussing it next time (and starting class with a quiz over it). |
| Wed | 1/23 | Meet and Greet. Discuss "Lockhart's Lament" | Easy in-class quiz over Lockhart -- just to see if you read
it!
Your assignment for next time (1/30): do one of the following two:
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| Wed | 1/30 | Let's play! Holden's Nim | Cold day -- be free!
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| Wed | 2/6 | Kari Stewart (Math Education: Children's Hospital) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 2/13 | Greg Lemmon (Statistics: Eureka Ranch) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 2/20 | Jen Quammen (Biology: High Performance Living) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 2/27 | Parker Kain and Allison Zembrodt (Graduating NKU Students) | Write up your comments for next time. This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 3/6 | Math in History (Professor Emeritus Dan Curtin) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 3/13 | Spring Break | |
| Wed | 3/20 | Math in Government and Education (Professor Dan McGee, Director of the Kentucky Center for Mathematics) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 3/27 | Madison Paoli and Laura Farro (Recent graduates: How's the Water?) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 4/3 | Math in Business (Steve Long) | Write up your comments for next time.
This sheet is for you to collect some thoughts. Then write those up in the form of a (typed, one or two page) summary essay for next time. You are not obligated to use my categories. You must be present to do a summary, however. When you submit the essay, please attach this note sheet, however. And make sure that you have your name on things...:) |
| Wed | 4/10 | Discussion Summary of all speakers, with focus on your answers to our class questions | Homework (to be submitted next time): please summarize our discussion, and add your own thoughts as well (two pages, typed). If you were not present in class, you may still submit your own comments for fewer points. |
| Wed | 4/17 | To Lament or Not To Lament: that is the question | You are to submit a poster mockup for next time.
For next time: you are to produce a "rough sketch" of your poster. This should be a drawing, with boxes describing the sections that you'll be covering. In addition, you should have a one page description about the mathematics that you will be presenting. |
| Wed | 4/24 | Poster Discussions/Prep | Finish your preliminary poster for next time! |
| Wed | 5/1 | In-Class (preliminary) Poster Session | Write up your paper and submit by May 8nd. |
| Mon | 5/6 | Open Poster Session | Submit your final poster write-up by May 8nd. |