Transcript Diapositiva 1

Visioning WS
of
JEM & WebALT
August 8-10, 2006
Location: Pau Gargallo, 5. 08028 Barcelona
FME
( http://www-fme.upc.es )
The main door of the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics (FME)
of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) is located at
41º 23’ 1” N, 2º 6’ 57” E.
To see Google Earth maps of Barcelona and the area nearby FME,
click on the picture above; else advance to next slide.
In a lovely area of a lovely Mediterranean city
Facilities
3 fully equiped computer rooms, including a fixed beamer
in each (90 PC’s + 15 laptops).
FME
Fixed beamers and Star Boards in four lecture rooms
Wireless connections everywhere
Project lab and Mathematics lab
Library
• Student sensitive (in particular, all the reference books
of all subjects for all academic years are available,
often with more than one copy)
• Large collections of digital materials (books and journals)
• Project and study rooms available 24 h a day.
• UPC catalog on line
And the Office of Support to Mathematical Research
Teaching Mathematics
The UPC employs over 300 mathematicians to teach
mathematics and statistics to nearly 30000 students.
UPC
This teaching service is delivered in the FME, in the
Schools of
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Industrial Engineering,
Computer Science (Informatics),
Civil Engineering,
Telecommunications Engineering,
and Architecture,
and in several bachelor degrees
in “polytechnic schools”.
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Click on the FME picture to see other schools, services and
surroundings; else advance to next slide.
UPC’s mathematics community is one of the largest
among Spanish Universities
Barcelona
Snapshots
Barcelona is over 22 centuries old, and yet it is an open, industrious
and innovative city, with one of the highest standards of living in
the world.
By now there are many familiar views, associated with Gaudí or the
1992 Olympic games. To see a few pictures taken from less
common places, and more or less related to Mathematics, click on
the picture above (featuring a view of the Forum 2004, left, and of
Sagrada Familia and the Agbar tower, which, despite appearances,
are more than 1500 m apart).
A few unusual views of one of the best cities in the world
History
Starting point: need to program algorithms in Coding
Theory
WIRIS
The Omega project
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M4M (Maths for More)
Edu365
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Block Error-Correcting Codes
LeActiveMath
WebALT
Value: competences aimed at meeting clients’ needs
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Resisting forces
My Turn: Forget the Fads—The Old Way Works Best
WebALT
What will fix public education? A teacher, a chalkboard
and a roomful of willing students
By Evan Keliher
NEWSWEEK
The plain truth is we need to return to the method that’s most effective:
a teacher in front of a chalkboard and a roomful of willing students. The
old way is the best way. We have it from no less a figure than Euclid
himself. When Ptolemy I, the king of Egypt, said he wanted to learn
geometry, Euclid explained that he would have to study long hours and
memorize the contents of a fat math book. The pharaoh complained that
that would be unseemly and demanded a shortcut. Euclid replied, “There
is no royal road to geometry.”
Regressive attitudes are no solution today,
much less in 2016
WebALT
Projects
Geometry for beginners
-Points, lines and segments, parallel lines, distances
-Angles, triangles, congruent triangles, 180º
-Quadrilaterals
-Areas
-Similarity
-Circles
-Regular polygons
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-Constructions
Practical Analytical Geometry
-Getting started
-Area of polygons
-Working with lines
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Vision: There is a Royal Road to Geometry
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Thank you!