With 2020 in the rearview mirror, we take a moment to pause and reflect on some of what’s happened since the last newsletter. The rising incidence of COVID-19 infections brought with it a massive upheaval for American higher education institutions—forcing students, in many cases, to vacate dorms, and instructors to rapidly transition from hybrid to […]

“One must be able to say at all times – instead of points, straight lines, and planes – tables, chairs, and beer mugs. “David Hilbert [4] Axioms serve as fundamental bricks in the foundations of mathematics. Given a small collection of statements assumed to be true, a universe of subsequent truths may spring forth, grounded in […]

During the 2019-2020 academic year, the Teaching GeT working group developed a set of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) for the GeT courses. This year, the working group is still focused on the SLOs. We are working on writing narratives elaborating on each SLO. An example draft narrative for one of the SLOs, SLO 4 on […]

Understand and explain the relationship between axioms, theorems, and geometric models in which they hold (such as the plane, the sphere, the hyperbolic plane, etc.); understand how knowledge about different models can help us understand which theorems can be proven from a given set of axioms. a) Recognize and be able to communicate the distinction […]

Four questions with Tuyin An, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Southern University