Abstract / Synopsis
Learning communities can be an effective means of engaging university students across disciplines. Games have always been a source of both enjoyment and interesting mathematics. Based on our own interest in games, and the deep, strategic discussions we found ourselves having with students when we played games with them, we decided to design a learning community around the mathematics of games. We hoped in particular that such a community could be a great pathway to introducing mathematical thinking to students not majoring in mathematics, and that they would gain a greater appreciation for our field. In this paper, we describe our Math Games Seminar learning community, from its origins in 2016, to its organization and to its impact on our students through the years.
DOI
10.5642/jhummath.202102.07
Recommended Citation
Anthony DeLegge & Ellen Ziliak, "The Math Games Seminar: A Mathematical Learning Community," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 11 Issue 2 (July 2021), pages 148-166. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.202102.07. Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol11/iss2/7
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