{"id":23171,"date":"2013-05-16T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T19:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/?p=23171"},"modified":"2014-07-10T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:21:21","slug":"gifted-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/05\/16\/gifted-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/gifted-studies.com\/campblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/astronomy11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" \/> This summer I will be teaching a math course at the Summer Camp for Academically Talented Middle School Students (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wku.edu\/gifted\/scats.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wku.edu\/gifted\/scats.php<\/a>). I plan to discuss the concept of infinity (using debates between the students to help understand the idea properly), magic squares, Bridges of K\u00f6nigsberg, M\u00f6bius strips, graphs, prime numbers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I taught the same course two years ago and found that infinity was a highly misunderstood concept for the students. I would pose questions to the class and have the students separate into groups depending upon their understanding of the concept.<\/p>\n<p>If you were teaching a course like this, what topics might you include?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer I will be teaching a math course at the Summer Camp for Academically Talented Middle School Students (http:\/\/www.wku.edu\/gifted\/scats.php). I plan to discuss the concept of infinity (using debates between the students to help understand the idea properly), magic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/05\/16\/gifted-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/05\/16\/gifted-education\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-61J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24993,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23171\/revisions\/24993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}