UNT Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium presents

It's a global phenomenon! Over 4 million people across the globe this year have discovered the mathematical magic and awe of Exploding Dots. So let me share this mind-blowing story with you too! We'll whip through the school mathematics you thought you knew so well and shed brand new light on it all. And then we'll go wild and quirky and turn all those ideas upside down! It's the story of place value, but why stick with whole numbers for bases? Let's discover all sorts of new mathematics just by pushing familiar ideas to their absolute max!

Explode Your Mind with Exploding Dots

Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 5pm in GAB 104

A pre-lecture reception with cookies, coffee, and tea will be

held at 3:30pm in GAB 472.

www.math.unt.edu

James Tanton (PhD, Princeton 1994, mathematics) is an author, a consultant, and an ambassador for the Mathematical Association of America in Washington D.C., currently serving as their Mathematician-at-Large. He has taught mathe-matics both at university and high-school institutions. James is absolutely com-mitted to promoting effective and joyful mathematics thinking, learning, and doing at all levels of the education spectrum. James writes books and video courses, advises on curriculum, consults with teachers, and gives demonstration classes and professional development sessions across the globe. James also leads the MAA’s Curriculum Inspirations project (www.maa.org/ci), serves as chair of the Advisory Council for the National Museum of Mathematics (ww-w.momath.org), and is a founder of The Global Math Project (www.theglobal-mathproject.org), an initiative transform the entire world’s perception of what mathematics can and should be. Classroom mathematics too can serve as a portal for human joy, wonder, and delight.

James Tanton