Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
TORCH (Teacher Outreach) Program
at
Oklahoma State University

August 12 - 16, 1991
Discrete Mathematics

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Woodrow Wilson Institute Leaders -


This one-week summer institute explored mathematics as it is applied in the human decision-making process. Techniques from Game Theory, Graph Theory, Fair division and Apportionment, Scheduling, and Linear Programming were discussed. The Institute Leaders who are master teachers of high school mathematics and who have had extensive training at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey presented the institute. The 21 selected participants, themselves practicing mathematics teachers, represented school districts from across the state of Oklahoma. Participants had an opportunity to explore a variety of real world applied mathematics problems, including the use of manipulatives and state-of-the-art computer software, alternative teaching, modeling, and problem solving strategies.

The institute participants incorporated many of the notions of the institute into their teaching practices and developed extensions of them for use in the classroom. These extensions were presented during the one-day follow-up session on April 25, 1992 that was conducted by Robin Washam. Subsequently, several participants made presentations at conferences of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and in their districts.



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Doug Aichele (aichele@math.okstate.edu)