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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 Cherry Creek School District’s K-12 teachers in Denver.

 

CONTACT INFO:
www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/

 

ABOUT THE MATHEMUSICIAN:  To support his mission in increasing awareness and motivation in mathematics/statistics, Professor Lesser has tapped and merges two of his great loves – math and music.  An award-winning songwriter (most recently, 2nd-place in the fall 2012 El Paso Songwriting Contest and 2 of the top 3 places in the 2013 CAUSE A-mu-sing national song contest), his thoughtful and entertaining math songs have attracted international media coverage (including Australia’s largest newspaper and newstalk radio interviews from El Paso to Jamaica!) and led to plenary presentations for audiences ranging from mathematics teachers (e.g., an SRO audience of 800+ at the opening plenary session of the 2009 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics regional conference in Nashville) to mathematicians (e.g., the opening banquet at the 2008 national summer meeting of the Mathematical Association of America) to statisticians (e.g., the banquet at the 2013 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics).

         Since 2011, Lesser has been the featured guest (and lyricist) on six episodes of a children’s PBS-TV show, including an episode on math and music and was also featured on the Feb. 1, 2013 KFOX-TV evening news for teaching a lesson to local 7th and 8th graders on the mathematics of stringed instruments. Lesser has internationally published some 50 math/stat lyrics as well as the first juried comprehensive articles on using songs in mathematics/statistics class.  As the Mathemusician (some say “the Weird Al Yankovic of mathematics/statistics education”), Lesser incorporates guitar in his interactive classes and keynotes, facilitating explorations and performing raps and parodies, creatively adapting popular lyrics towards content 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 ;  for a brief overall bio, see this next paragraph: 

 

LESSER’S OVERALL “PROFESSOR BIO”:  see paragraph on http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/

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