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From Ohio University News Ohio University’s Kennedy Museum of Art opened “Pattern & Disruption: Diné Lifeways and Embedded Mathematics” on Feb. 1 with an opening reception, traditional weaving demonstration and curator walk and talk. The exhibit draws from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection and […]

Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University, made stops at the National Security Agency and the National Museum of Mathematics in June to screen Navajo Math Circles, a film by George Csicsery that features Klein’s work. The NSA published an article about the screening titled “Happy Accidents, […]

Navajo Math Circles, a film by George Csicsery, makes its world debut at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle on Jan. 6. Navajo Math Circles opens a window on the lives of several Navajo students who have participated in a lively collaboration with mathematicians and math educators since 2012. The […]

Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Professor of Mathematics, is seeking an undergraduate research apprentice to travel with him to the Navajo Nation in Arizona this summer and work during the academic year on developing teacher scripts for Math Circles in Navajo Nation schools. College of Arts & Sciences freshmen, sophomores and juniors […]

Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Ohio University, co-authored an article on “Liar’s Bingo” in the national newsletter of the Math Teachers’ Circle community. “Bob Klein and Steve Phelps’ featured session on “Liar’s Bingo” is a great illustration of collaboration across MTCs in Ohio, where there is now […]

Are math lovers the new underground? In the former Soviet Union, students who wanted to learn more—at the time the Soviets were dictating what was allowable in terms of research and studies—gathered in kitchens and living rooms in small groups to do…math. “Math circles,” as they were known, were “something […]