Special Lecture on Geometry and Math Education
The department is very pleased to announce the forthcoming lecture by Zalman Usiskin. It will have a strong mathematics as well as mathematics education focus. I encourage all of you to attend. The talks will be aimed at undergraduates, especially those interested in education.
Refreshments at 4:00 followed by the talk at 4:30, in Cuneo Hall, Room 311
Speaker: Zalman Usiskin (University of Chicago)
Director of the and recipient of the Mathematics Education Trust Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Title: The Shape of Geometry and the Geometry of Shape
Abstract: In recent decades, the high school geometry curriculum has been influenced by transformations, coordinates, applications, and technology. Each of these influences can change the way one thinks about geometry as a subject to be taught and learned. In particular, these influences affect the shapes that are studied in geometry and so the *shape of geometry* is related to the *geometry of shape*.