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Western
Kentucky University's Math Department is making an addition
to its formula for student success. Math faculty member Bruce
Kessler will host Math Matters: Why Do I Need to
Know This? on WKU's campus cable system. The half-hour program
will show how the mathematics being taught in their General Math,
College Algebra, and Math for Elementary Teachers courses is applied
in the real world. The show will feature three segments focusing on
common applications for the types of mathematics that WKU students
may be facing in their classes. The show will air during regular fall
and spring semesters on campus channel 12 at 5
p.m. Wednesdays with replays at 11 p.m. Wednesdays
and 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays.
Portions of the program will also be downloadable here on the show's
webpage.
About the Host: I am a 1989 graduate of Western Kentucky University. I completed my Masters at Vanderbilt in 1991, and returned to Western as a math instructor at the Glasgow Campus. I returned to Vanderbilt in 1994 to work on my Ph.D. under the direction of Doug Hardin, and finished in 1997. I am currently an associate professor in the mathematics department at Western, and am in my third year as the assistant dean of the Ogden College of Science and Engineering |
