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Grant Spotlight: Joint Mathematics Meetings

By |2022-03-02T16:37:52+00:00January 22nd, 2019|Spotlight - Grants|

Lynn Reed and Linda Brown Westrick (’04) at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, MD MLWGS math teacher Lynn Reed is a 25+ year member of the Mathematical Association of America.  "I always enjoy attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings when they occur 'near' Richmond," she says.  As a member of the MAA's Mini-Course Committee, she helped to monitor six mini-course sessions like "Dance and Mathematics" and "Object Based Learning and the Smithsonian

Taylor Teaching Award 2018

By |2022-03-02T18:35:43+00:00July 23rd, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

Dickson Benesh is back from his Taylor Teaching Award-funded trip to the UK!  In the picture on the left, he is at Woolsthorpe Manor in Grantham, England, the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton.  He is standing next to the famous apple tree from which Newton observed an apple falling, leading him to ponder the nature of gravity.  Dickson's trip allowed him to follow in the footsteps of Sir Issac Newton from childhood through his

Grant Spotlight: Guest Speaker Chris Hanusa

By |2018-02-15T17:20:11+00:00February 15th, 2018|Spotlight - Grants|

In February, math professor and mathematical artist Chris Hanusa visited MLWGS, where he worked with students in the Math & Art Seminar, Discrete Math classes, and the Multivariable Calculus class, where he held a Mathematica & 3D Printing workshop.  He also gave a presentation entitled “Using Random Numbers to Create Art” to more than 30 students in the Forum after school.  Professor Hanusa's work at the intersection of two disciplines allows him to program computers

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