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Demonstrations and practical activities

For more information contact: Özgür Selsil, David Lewis, Anna Pratoussevitch.


Students in Staff-Student Committee have spoken appreciatively about the use of demonstrations and practical activities in lectures. Three examples they mentioned were
  1. Özgür Selsil's use of wooden blocks to demonstrate divergence of the harmonic series in MATH102.
  2. David Lewis's use of paper, scissors, rock to illustrate ideas of game theory in MATH331.
  3. Anna Pratoussevitch's use in MATH349 of: oranges and cucumbers to explain sectional curvature of spheres and cylinders; a slinky to describe the helix; pringles for saddle surfaces; a globe for the connection between Gauss curvature and cartography; and bagels for working out the Euler characteristic.