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Turning Math-Hating Prisoners into Mathematicians

Turning Math-Hating Prisoners into Mathematicians

Update: 2024-08-28
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Kate Pearce, a post-doc researcher at UT Austin, talks about her experience teaching math in a women's prison. Her remedial college algebra students came in with negative experience in math, so she devised ways to make the topics new. The elective class called, coincidentally, The Art of Mathematics, explored parallels between math and art, infinity, algorithms, formalism, randomness and more. The students learned to think like mathematicians and gained confidence in their abilities in abstract problem solving.

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Turning Math-Hating Prisoners into Mathematicians

Turning Math-Hating Prisoners into Mathematicians

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