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SUMMARY:Georgio Dalakouras (Caterham School)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/CompMath/43/
 ">Polya\, Skemp\, Mason\, Lockhart: An eternal golden braid</a>\nby Georgi
 o Dalakouras (Caterham School) as part of Relatorium seminar\n\nInteractiv
 e livestream: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86867754450?pwd=cmOo0axJW34jL35Ku
 CGbBgtNS9tEvs.1\nView-only livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@Relatorium
 \n\nAbstract\nA longer alternate title for this talk is "Pedagogy & proble
 m solving in the 21st century. Will AI cause seismic changes? Are Polya an
 d Lockhart still relevant?". I will present a cautiously optimistic view. 
 Will define pedagogy (easier) and problem solving (much harder) and look a
 t how the "eternal golden braid" of Polya\, Skemp\, Mason\, and Lockhart e
 nter the discourse. And do they still matter? To be clear\, the Hofstadter
 -borrowed terminology will not translate to a high level of articulate and
  clear exposition or a web of connections that go deep. I aim for an inter
 esting discussion\, with many oblique and loosely defined inquiry lines on
  how to best help the youth educate themselves. How do we motivate them to
  move forward? And is this possible in the first place?\n\n\nSpeaker's bio
 : I would be a shepherd in Greece were it not for a few brilliant math tea
 chers in the home state school system and the math competitions. In Ann Ar
 bor\, I completed my PhD in applied & interdisciplinary math - using Horma
 nder's hypoellipticity - and 4 masters: financial engineering\, operations
  research\, pure math\, and applied economics. After teaching at WPI (Worc
 ester Tech) for a year\, I was lured into finance. Recently I saw the need
  for the UK to create math schools - a la Kolmogorov - and got a new purpo
 se in life. Teaching at Caterham School and looking for a chance to work w
 ith kids that really do 'mathematics'\, and not 'mechanics'. In the summer
 \, geeking-out in the camps of Axiom Maths & the 1729 Math School\, I enjo
 y 'being taught' by really smart kids.\n\nModerator's bio: Ted Theodosopou
 los is a mathematician who\, after working for years in academia and indus
 try\, transitioned to teaching at the pre-college level seventeen years ag
 o\, the last nine at Nueva\, where he teaches math and economics. Ted’s 
 research background is in the area of interacting stochastic systems\, wit
 h particular applications in biology and economics.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/CompMath/43/
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