6 • The Clackamas Print • May 28, 2003
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Math dept, serves 'Pi and Ice Cream'
Elisabeth Meyer
The Clackamas Print
The math department showed its
sense of humor last Thursday at the
annual “Pi and Ice Cream” lecture,
which attracted a large crowd.
Dr. Keith Leatham, a professor
from PSU, spoke about connections
between math and music.
The lectures have been given at
least once a year for the past several
springs, Department Chair Kurt
Lewandowski said. Instructor Mark
Yannotta has made arrangements for
lecturers to come, Lewandowski
said, partly because working on his
PhD brings him into contact with
other teachers. Yannotta has taken
three classes from Leatham at PSU.
“(Leatham) trains teachers to
teach math,” Yannotta said. “A lot
of his students* are elementary educa
tion majors who might not be inter
ested in math, but will have to teach
it anyway.”
“I teach teachers,” Leatham said.
“It's a little different from proving
theorems. It's much more of a peo
ple thing.” His speciality is mathe
matics education, which makes him doesn't connect to their lives in some
way/ Yannotta said. “Of the first 25
focus on making math accessible.
“I've been wanting an excuse to people (who came to the lecture), I
put a presentation like this together,” didn't recognize a soul. I think they
Leatham said.
Were from music classes....Every
“I try to find (lecturers) who aré /one of these talks usually draws
interesting. I figure everyone has a- other faculty members.”
talk in them somewhere,” Yannotta
Adam Halls released his calculus
said. “Everybody has a passion in class, which overlapped the lecture,
their lives. For Keith, it's math and an hour early to let them attend.
music.”
“It was kind of a collective stu
Lining up a speaker is the most dent decision,” said Hall, adding that
challenging part of the process, a student had suggested it to him.
Yannotta said. Other details include “Maybe-they felt it was the lesser of
securing a room, posting flyers and the two evils,” he laughed.
getting post-lecture goodies.
Preparing for the shindig gave
“My responsibility is going to the math department interns John
grocery store and buying the ice Osborne and Jasmin Walker a break
cream, bowls
and spoons,” from the routine of collating, proc-
Lewandowski laughed. “That's one toring tests and double-checking test
of the glamorous jobs of being corrections.
department chair.”
“This is more messier,” Osborne
Yannotta explained that the “Pi said, grinning. “And more funner.
and Ice Cream” lectures are a way to That's right, funner.”
bring students from different disci
Osborne caught part of the lec
plines together to study how math ture before leaving to dish up ice
affects them.
cream.
“We know a lot of our students
“What I heard was basically
aren't majoring in math, but that about how notes are created,"
doesn't mean it's not important or Osborne said. "You see, the
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“I know nothing about music,
and I could follow him,” said
Lewandowski.
Yannotta and Lewandowski were
pleased with the lecture's attendance.
“The reality is that we have very
few math majors,” Lewandowski
said, “but when you connect math to
other disciplines, it draws more peo
ple in.”
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Pythagoreans...” He then launched
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lecture, carefully diagramming
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Much of Osborne's explanation
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that some of the crowd found the
music portion more challenging than
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