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“Find,
find the value of pi -- starts 3 point 1 4 1 5 9.
A good ol’ fraction you may hope to divine, but the
decimal never dies ....”
-- from Larry Lesser’s
“American Pi”
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photograph © 1999 L. Davis Lesser performs during
keynote presentation for district-wide K-12 inservice
for Cherry Creek ( CONTACT INFO: |
ABOUT
THE MATHEMUSICIAN: To
support his mission in increasing awareness and motivation in mathematics,
Professor Lesser has tapped and merges two of his great loves – math and
music. His thoughtful and entertaining
math songs have proven especially unique and popular, attracting
international media coverage (including Australia’s
largest newspaper and newstalk radio interviews
from El
Paso to Jamaica!)
and leading to opening session plenary presentations for the annual national
summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America (see p.14 of Aug/Sept 2008 FOCUS)
and a NCTM
2009 Regional Conference. Lesser has internationally published
dozens of math
lyrics as well as the first juried comprehensive articles on using songs
in math/statistics class. As the Mathemusician
(some say “the Weird Al Yankovic of mathematics education”), Lesser brings
his guitar to classrooms and keynotes, facilitating explorations and
performing raps and musical parodies, creatively adapting popular lyrics
towards math topics such as infinity, pi, problem solving, graphing
functions, as well as even more worldly applications such as understanding
the lottery! for more detail about his math-and-music activity,
click here
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for a brief overall bio, see this next paragraph: DR. LESSER’S OVERALL BIO: An Associate Professor at the
University of Texas at El Paso, Lesser has taught mathematics, statistics
and mathematics education courses in
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Resources
& Bibliography | Lyrics
of Greatest LESSER hits | Cool Math
& Music Quotes |
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