MATHEMATICS SPEAKER SERIES
“Beside the Book! What else can students do to meet their
yearning for learning more mathematics...”
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Collins Elementary School, GLC
10300 N. Blaney Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
No RSVP Needed
District students and their parents are invited to participate in the final installment
of the Mathematics Speaker Series. The previous speakers have been focusing on
middle school students. The target audience for this presentation is students in grades
four and five who are eager to learn more, deeper mathematics (to go Beside the
Book!) and their parents; interested sixth grade students and parents are also
welcome. The speaker will be Joshua Zucker, a very talented and knowledgeable teacher
whose accomplishments in the field of mathematicshave been recognized both in his tenure
as a writer for the national MATHCOUNTS competition and as the Director of the Julia
Robinson Mathematics Festival. Mr. Zucker discovered his love for number theory at Dr.
Arnold Ross's summer program at Ohio State University many years ago. As a
student, he was invited to the US Math Olympiad Summer Program and was a
member of the first US Physics Olympiad team as well as a top-10 scorer on the
Putnam. Joshua is an excellent presenter who will challenge students with insightful,
intriguing problems and offer parents words of wisdom about math education that will
help them work with their sons and daughters in productive ways. The Speaker Series is part of
the district's Math Initiative Plan and is sponsored by the Cupertino Educational Endowment
Foundation (CEEF) and a grant from Microsoft Corporation.
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