UW Math Academy out to broaden engineering's appeal
At the University of Washington, the summertime Mathematics Academy is trying to broaden the appeal of engineering. The College of Engineering hopes to close the gap between what students learn in high school and where they need to be to succeed in college math. All kinds of students fall into the gap, but it is more marked with students from some minority groups or from low-income families.
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Seattle Times staff columnist
The equations on dry-erase boards didn't interest me, but the people in the room did.
They were figuring out something about the slope of a tangent, but the real question is, can passion multiplied by work produce an exponential increase in realized talent?
Dave Prince is the lead instructor for the summertime Mathematics Academy at the University of Washington. It's a project of the College of Engineering.
Helping is personal for him. "My family was very poor," he told me. "I know what it's like to be hungry." He