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The UW Math Department sponsors a wide
variety of activities aimed at enhancing Kindergarten through 12th grade
education. Most of these activities have opportunities for participation
by grad students who are interested in learning more about the rapidly
changing trends in K-12 math education. Here is an introduction to some
of them. (See the Department's web page Outreach
and Resources for K-12 Teachers and Students for additional information.)
NWMI is a geometry outreach program,
organized by Professor Jim King as an extension of the IAS/Park City Mathematics
Institute and funded by an Eisenhower grant from the Washington
Superintendent for Public Instruction. It sponsors summer geometry
workshops for secondary math teachers, introducing new ways of teaching
geometry in the classroom.
Each spring, the UW Math Department
sponsors a day-long program for high school students from all over the
state of Washington, where members of the Math Department and other UW
departments give talks, seminars, field trips, labs, and other activities
to introduce students to the variety of ways that mathematical sciences
are used in academics, government, and industry. Here is a list
of the activities for the most recent Mathday.
Within the typical high school curriculum, a student has limited
opportunities to acquire a full appreciation of the nature of mathematics:
its wide-ranging content, the intrinsic beauty of its ideas, the nature of
mathematical argument and proof, the surprising power of mathematics within
the sciences and beyond. Getting a glimpse of the depth and beauty of
mathematics can be a transforming experience for a student, whatever
interests the student may intend to pursue in the future. The Summer
Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington is intended to
provide talented, enthusiastic students with just such a glimpse. The
mathematical topics studied are accessible, yet of sufficient
sophistication to be challenging, allowing students to participate in the
experience of mathematical inquiry and be immersed in the world of
mathematics.
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