Later this week we’ll be bringing a printer and a bag of mathematical prints to a contributed talk at the Fall Sectional Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America for Maryland/DC/Virginia, held jointly at Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University on November 1-2.
The focus of the talk will be the 3-SPACE classroom and how it could be used in mathematics classes, including an example for second-semester calculus: a model of Gabriel’s Horn that students can print in less than 25 minutes.
The print time of 25 minutes is about enough time for students to work on the math that shows that Gabriel’s Horn has infinite surface area but finite volume on the interval [1,infinity):
Those at the talk will get a model of their own to take home to their calculus classes:
UPDATE: Thank you everyone who came to the talk this weekend! Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions about how to start such a thing at your school, and stay tuned for a Workshop at the Spring MAA MD/DC/VA meetings at JMU.
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