Instructor: Bill Abikoff
Text: Foundations of Geometry, 2nd Edition, by
Gerard Venema
Meeting times: 11 to 12:15 TuTh in MSB 403.
This course is
designed to provide high school teachers with the geometric
insights needed by their students and, even more, to give them
sufficiently much knowledge that they could excite and motivate
their students. To wit, the course makes few demands on its
students in terms of prerequisites. It is a course designed for
preparation of K-12 teachers but it developed a conflicting
interest. Students took the course to satisfy a mathematics
minor requirement. THE GRADING SCHEME IS BASED ON PLACING ONLY
QUALIFIED PEOPLE AS TEACHERS OF HIGH SCHOOL GEOMETRY COURSES.
I mentioned in the first class that there is an interesting
article on high school education. The URL is
http://www.aaup.org/article/warnings-trenches#.UPzwJoe9KSM
Also, a professor in California has written some notes which
complement the Venema book. That URL is
bruce-shapiro.com/math370/370.pdf
The course is being phased off the list of courses that can be
used to satisfy a mathematics minor.
My e-mail address is abikoff@math.uconn.edu.
My homepage is http://www.math.uconn.edu/~abikoff.
My office hours are or soon will be listed here.
I will almost always be available during office
hours or by appointment. e-mail is the most reliable means of
contacting me.
The list of homework assignments is given via the hypertext
links below. The list is a work in progress and will change as
the semester progresses.
New and important is a place where I'll put items as needed.
We're told
that we're supposed to inform you, most often on this page,
that you shouldn't be academically naughty. If you're
thinking of doing something that might be inappropriate, you
should first read the Student Code of Conduct.