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James Loats

Prof of MTH

SUP_TERM

Bio

Professional - Teaching math since 1969 – since 1983 at MSU Denver Focus on preparing future mathematics teachers Personal - musician [bluegrass dobro, guitar, tuba] sailing camping bicycling beginning silversmith

Degree

PhD in Mathematics

University of Colorado Boulder

MS in [This was a course-work only masters degree - no thesis.]

Ohio University

BA in Mathematics

Oklahoma State University

Research Interests

My thesis area was Logic and Set theory. More recently, I try to keep up with the literature on teaching and learning of mathematics, mathematical modeling and transformational geometry.

Teaching Interests

All the courses I teach at Metro are part of the teacher preparation program. My favorite course is MTH 1610, Integrated Mathematics I. It is a problem-based course taken by all students who be certified by MSU. It introduces the students to a way of learning mathematics that is focused making sense and problem solving. I also love to teach upper level courses: Foundations of Geometry, Abstract Algebra, Introduction to Proofs, Discrete Mathematics and Modeling

Additional Information

https://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~loatsj/