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Why Do We Teach Calculus? What and How We Should Teach?

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Başlangıç Zamanı:  Starting Time 02:00 pm ~ 04:00 pm

Konum:  DB-14 (New Campus)

TED University Center for Teaching and Learning is inviting our academicians to the seminar entitled "Why Do We Teach Calculus? What and How We Should Teach?" by Assist.Prof.Dr. İnan Utku Türkmen and Assist.Prof.Dr. Ayşe Mutlu Derya.

Abstract:

The aim of this talk to start a discussion on content and delivery of Calculus courses at TEDU which (we hope) will lead to a curriculum reform study for all math courses taught at TEDU next. We will compare Calculus curriculums of different universities with TEDU's, and share our experience on different approaches and methods used in Calculus teaching.

Bio:

İnan Utku Türkmen received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Bilkent University, Department of Mathematics in years 2004 and 2012, respectively. He was a visiting researcher at Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department, University of Alberta in 2007 and 2008. Between 2008 and 2013, he has lectured various mathematics and statistics courses at different levels at Bilkent and Atılım Universities. He has been running R&D projects in mathematical and statistical modeling of traffic network since 2013. Dr. Türkmen has been working as an assistant professor in Gebze Teknik University and lecturing as part time at TED University since 2014 September, simultaneously. His research interests include geometry and arithmetic of algebraic cycles, network analysis, mathematical and statistical modeling.

Ayşe Mutlu Derya received her B.Sc. in Mathematics from Bilkent University. She earned her two M.Sc. degrees from Bilkent University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst, respectively. She earned her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Mathematics from Bilkent University under the supervision of Professor Semih Koray and Professor Azer Kerimov. Before TEDU, she worked at different institutions, such as Umass at Amherst, METU, AGU, Çankaya, Istanbul Bilgi and Bilkent Universities. Dr. Derya has publications in cooperative game theory. Her current research interests include game theory, networks, social choice theory and economic design.