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  • Mathematics professors Dick Bedient and Sally Cockburn presented a talk titled “The Hamilton College Senior Seminar” at the summer meetings of the Mathematical Association of America in San Jose. The talk was part of a session called “Getting Students to Discuss and Write about Mathematics.” They described the department’s senior seminar program where the goals are to provide students with an opportunity to work on problems of interest, present work orally, learn about the writing of mathematics and learn some mathematics. The experiment has proved remarkably successful. The department is now averaging about 40 concentrators per year. In an evaluation of the seminar experience one student commented "It was the most thought provoking class I've ever taken."

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