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Office
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June 2, 2003 |
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UT Tyler has been awarded a $79,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Teacher Quality Grant Program, formerly known as the Eisenhower Grants Program. The grant will fund “New Dimensions: Transforming Geometry through Technology,” a five-week summer institute addressing the incorporation of technology in the geometry classroom. Twenty area high school teachers are scheduled to attend the institute June 2 – July 3 at UT Tyler. The teachers represent Tyler, Bullard, Chapel Hill, Arp, New Summerfield, Gladewater and Gilmer Independent School Districts, as well as All Saints Episcopal School. “We are very pleased that the THECB has given us this honor. The grant will provide for the participants' tuition, supplies and stipends. In addition, each participant will receive a laptop computer with geometry software installed and a TI-83 Silver Edition calculator to facilitate actual implementation of this concept into the high school classroom,” said Dr. Lesa Beverly, UT Tyler assistant professor of mathematics and coordinator of the grant program. Dr. Nathan Smith, assistant professor of mathematics, also serves as a program coordinator. Participants
also will attend follow-up sessions during UT Tyler’s fall
and spring semesters to emphasize the use of technology in the geometry
classroom.
Contact person: Emily Battle, (903) 565-5604
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