Curtis Bennett: Thinking Like a Mathematician

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Curtis' plan to include a semester-long project in the capstone course led to further thinking about how this type of project could have an impact on how students engaged or "did" mathematics.

In turn, if students became more engaged in learning mathematics, what sort of effect could that have on how these students would eventually teach mathematics in a high-school setting? If they were able to think like mathematicians, they would teach like mathematicians.

The initial focus of his research was to see whether the projects were successful in getting the students to "think like mathematicians."