Activity types include kinesthetic activities (where students use their own bodies to act out geometric situations), computer simulations and visualizations, and small group problem solving. Using these example activities, we will also discuss strategies for using different types of activities in class, when to use which types of activities, and how to develop effective activities of your own. We will also share information about our freely available, interactive, online textbook that is under development: The Geometry of Mathematical Methods.
Corinne is a Professor of Physics at Oregon State University and for 25 years was the Director of the Paradigms in Physics Project, a program that reformed the entire upper-division curriculum for physics majors. This involved both a rearrangement of content to better reflect the way professional physicists think about the field and also the use of a number of interactive pedagogies that place responsibility for learning more firmly in the hands of the students. Her physics education research (PER) investigates how Paradigms students use visualization and geometric reasoning in their problem-solving.
Her traditional research in theoretical quantum gravity uses the octonions to describe the symmetries of high energy particle physics. She is a Fellow of the APS and the AAPT and has won the AAPT’s David Halliday and Robert Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching. Even now, in the process of retiring, she continues to be amazed to find herself a physicist.