Inspiring Student Engagement in Upper-School Mathematics – Maylon Jones

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2020 Workshop Talk | 55:00 | 7-12, Math

Summary

Behind the Symbols: Inspiring Student Engagement in Upper School Mathematics through Exploration, History, Art, and Applications Maylon Jones
Each concept presented in a mathematics course has an origin story and more.

Where did the mathematics come from? Was it pursued to practically quantify something in the real world? Or was it pursued in an ideal sense—simply because it was true and beautiful? If it was the latter, was there a future application which providentially fit the knowledge gained? How have works of art or events in history been impacted by the mathematics since? With these questions in mind, examples in Geometry, Trigonometry, and Algebra II/Algebra III will be presented with the goal of bringing mathematics to life for our students.

Speaker

Maylon Jones received her MA in mathematics from Saint Louis University in 1996 and has been teaching mathematics ever since . In the past 24 years she has taught courses in mathematics from the 7th grade to college-level . She is just completing her tenth year at Westminster Academy in Memphis where she has regularly taught preAlgebra, precalculus and calculus. She has four children (ages 12–23) who have all attended WA . In her spare time, she often enjoys reading about, listening to podcasts, or watching videos on mathematics.

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