Changing the Culture 2023
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The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing the gap between mathematicians and teachers of mathematics, and between those who do and enjoy mathematics and those who think they don't.
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Conference Program
Conference Program
8:00 Registration, (1301 Harbour Centre Concourse)
8:45 Opening Remarks, (Room 1900 - Fletcher Challenge Theatre)
9:00 Plenary Talk I: Paths and pathways Jayadev Athreya, PIMS (Room 1900 - Fletcher Challenge Theater)
We talk about how some simple sounding problems about straight line paths on surfaces require many different kinds of mathematical thinking to solve, focusing on the example of understanding straight line paths on Platonic solids. We'll use this to start a discussion of how we can emphasize teaching different ways of thinking, and why geometry is an important resource for students. There will be lots and lots of fun pictures and hopefully interesting and provocative ideas!
10:00 Coffee Break, (1400 Segal Centre)
10:30 Workshops A, B and C
12:00 PIMS Award Ceremony (Room 1900 - Fletcher Challenge Theatre)
12:15 Lunch (Room 1400, Segal Centre)
13:00 Plenary Talk II: Streaming Services for Math Courses, Fok-Shuen Leung, UBC
University mathematics courses are often a shock to the system of a first-year student. In this talk, we'll explore how we can help students succeed, whether that's by ensuring their background is sufficient, encouraging them to take a suitable university math course, or transforming those courses in smart and logistically sound ways. At the end, we'll discuss some larger issues around the principles and ethics of sorting students to begin with.
14:00 Panel Discussion TBA
15:30 Concluding Remarks