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Good Morning Charlotte,
In our math program students have two tracks (1) math education or (2) math. The students who go into the traditional math program and are not looking to teach are required to take a two sequence capstone class where they do research into a mathematical topic of their choice. The students essentially use the first semester to identify their topic of interest and begin their research and start to draft their thesis, and the second semester they focus on writing and completing (these are pretty long documents that are written). The students have come up with some pretty interesting topics, from looking at graph theory, the math behind game development, to toipcs associated to the history of mathematics. Not sure if your professor would want to have students do research, but I wanted to share what our math professor does. In addition to their thesis they also do a 45 minute presentation, so part of that first semester class also allows them to practice their presentation skills through short impromptu class activities.
Katia Maxwell
Athens State University |
