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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
- Özgür Selsil's use of wooden
blocks to demonstrate divergence of the harmonic series in MATH102.
- David Lewis's use of paper, scissors, rock to illustrate ideas
of game theory in MATH331.
- 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.