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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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Lesser performs during keynote presentation for district-wide K-12 inservice for Cherry Creek
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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 (ranging from Australia’s
largest newspaper to Jamaica newstalk radio)
and an invitation to give the
featured presentation at the opening banquet of the annual national summer meeting of the
Mathematical Association of America in 2008. 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 whether to play the lottery! BRIEF BIO: Dr. Larry Lesser, an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, has taught mathematics, statistics and mathematics education courses in Texas, Georgia, and Colorado. His experience also includes work as a state agency statistician and as a full-time high school math teacher and department chair. He’s authored dozens of journal articles, co-authored algebra and math-for-liberal-arts textbooks (Freeman publishes For All Practical Purposes 8th ed. fall 2008), and his creative teaching has been cited in several scholarly publications as well as attracted stories/interviews in international mass media including CNN Headline News, Australia’s largest newspaper, and Jamaica newstalk radio.
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Resources
& Bibliography | Lyrics
of Greatest LESSER hits | Cool Math
& Music Quotes |
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