UW Math Academy out to broaden engineering's appeal

Source: seattletimes.nw Posted By: Hilmer J...5053 days ago

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....

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