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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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photo © 1999 Lauren Davis Lesser performs during the
keynote presentation for a district-wide in-service for 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 full-length opening session presentations for major conference
audiences ranging from mathematicians (e.g., the opening banquet session at the
annual national summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America; see
p.14 of Aug/Sept 2008 FOCUS)
to mathematics teachers (e.g., an SRO audience of 800+ at the 2009 National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics regional conference in Nashville). Yet another type of audience was
reached by Lesser’s short performance to
kick off the 2009 United States
Conference on Teaching Statistics, which earned Lesser the USCOTS “Entertainer
of the Year” award! 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 since 2004, 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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