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Despeaux, Sloan Evans – PRIMUS, 2015
Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature potentielle, or Workshop on potential literature), an over 50-year old movement that began in France, seeks to apply mathematical constraints to literature and the arts. In this article, I will give a brief survey of this movement and how I have built a learning module based on it for my mathematics for the liberal…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods
Despeaux, Sloan Evans – PRIMUS, 2014
In this article, I will discuss a collective research project that I designed for my History of Mathematics course. My students, who are by and large pre-service teachers, explored online, digital versions of 18th-century British almanacs that contained question-and-answer sections for mathematics. In a multi-stage research process, they explored…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Study, History, Teaching Methods