The Race Between Education and Catastrophe
Join Dr. Jeffrey Bennett for a strategy discussion, featuring examples for improving our teaching success at almost any level of math and statistics.
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, University of Colorado Boulder
In 1920, H.G. Wells wrote: “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” Perhaps no other quote better sums up why teaching is so important, and why so many of us focus our lives on promoting education. In this talk, I’ll discuss a few strategies, with examples, that I believe can help us “win” this race by improving our teaching success at almost any level of math and statistics.
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About the speaker
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, University of Colorado Boulder
Jeffrey Bennett served as the first director of the program Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Skills at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he developed the groundbreaking curriculum that became the basis of his textbook. He holds a BA in biophysics (University of California, San Diego) and an MS and a PhD in astrophysics (University of Colorado), and has focused his career on math and science education. In addition to co-authoring Using & Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, he is also the lead author of best-selling college textbooks on statistical reasoning, astronomy, and astrobiology, and of more than a dozen books for children and adults. All seven of his children’s books have been selected for NASA’s “Story Time From Space” (storytimefromspace.com).
