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

• What is special about your GeT course? In 2-3 sentences, describe your GeT course. My GeT course is an upper-level elective course for STEM majors that mainly covers the study of the axiomatic system in Euclidean geometry. This course is also a required course for Secondary Education B.S.Ed. majors to provide preservice teachers with an advanced understanding of geometry that will give them deeper insights when teaching. The course is mainly taught in a traditional lecture format with active learning activities.
• Who are your students? My GeT course usually has a mixed body of secondary preservice teachers and other STEM majors. I also teach a few other math content courses for K-8 preservice teachers.
• What are you most interested in learning/achieving through participating with the GeT: A Pencil community? I am interested in meeting other math teacher educators and mathematicians who also teach a GeT course, sharing our teaching experience, and discussing issues and solutions. I have been teaching my GeT course for four years. I hope to continue developing this course through my participation in the GeT community, so that it can better serve students’ various learning needs.
• What is your favorite book you have read in the last few years? I was very lucky to get a signed copy of Eugenia Cheng’s book The Art of Logic in an Illogical World at 2018 MathFest. I really like the way she connected mathematical ideas to social issues.