https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/taxonomy/term/112/all en https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2015-10-09 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Peter Braunfeld will be leading a discussion about Common Core. The Common Core Mission Statement asserts that "the standards are designed to be robust, and relevant to the real world." But a sampling of the Common Core test items utterly fails to support this thesis. This seminar is designed to help attendees understand the abyss between pious hopes and dismal reality.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-10-09T12:00:00-05:00">Friday, October 9, 2015 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>October 9, 2015</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:52:16 +0000 Kalli 269 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2015-02-06 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In response to the launching of Sputnik almost 60 years ago, the US has struggled to reform school mathematics. We've spent large sums of money on new curricula, teacher training and technology. What seems to be working, and what remains to be done?</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2015-02-06T12:00:00-06:00">Friday, February 6, 2015 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>February 6, 2015</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:35:35 +0000 kirchges 257 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2014-10-31 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Educators are always talking about "what mathematicians really do." Fact is, they do lots of very different things, most of which require technical vocabulary and a lot of mathematical background</p> <p>Around 1890, Georg Cantor invents a theory of infinite sets and shocks the mathematical world. Luckily, this theory is not only genuinely elegant, but <em>doesn't</em> require much background. So, it's a wonderful example for both high school teachers and students to show at least what <em>some </em>mathematicians do or have done.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-10-31T12:00:00-05:00">Friday, October 31, 2014 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>October 31, 2014</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:03:54 +0000 Jessica Pulliam 225 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2012-10-12 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">"Is Algebra Necessary?"</a>, the title of a piece by Andrew Hacker (an Emeritus Professor at Queens University) in a recent issue of the Sunday New York Times is the topic this Friday. It came to my attention because Hacker briefly quotes me in the piece. Hacker argues that the algebra requirement for all high school students is misguided. Hacker's view is hardly new, but it raised quite a bit of traffic in the blogosphere.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-10-12T12:00:00-05:00">Friday, October 12, 2012 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>October 12, 2012</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:34:40 +0000 test_editor 183 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2013-10-04 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Peter Braunfield of MSTE gives an exciting MSTE Friday Lunch presentation about Mathematical Modeling.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-10-04T12:00:00-05:00">Friday, October 4, 2013 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>October 4, 2013</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:34:40 +0000 test_editor 200 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2011-04-08 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Join us for our MSTE Friday Lunch with Peter Braunfeld as he talks about  numerals. What do the ordinary English names for numbers like one, two, three, hundred, thousand, etc. (and those of other languages) reveal about the history of our understanding of numbers? </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2011-04-08T12:00:00-05:00">Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>April 8, 2011</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:02:34 +0000 test_editor 153 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu/event/2010-04-16 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Peter Braunfeld will join the group to discuss "The First Calculus Text: 1609." </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Date:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2010-04-16T12:00:00-05:00">Friday, April 16, 2010 - 12:00</span></div></div></div><div class='webform-container-closed'><h2>RSVP</h2><div id='rsvpDate'>April 16, 2010</div><div>We're sorry, but RSVPs for this event are closed. Try finding upcoming events on our calendar!</div></div> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:02:34 +0000 test_editor 137 at https://fridaylunch.mste.illinois.edu