Is this the college of computer scientist space. I think it's
engineering. Yeah, I guess engineering.
Yeah, I used to be up here. This was
where all the college computer science was just until about five
years ago. Okay, so go ahead and talk
All right. Um the Math Education program at
Virginia Tech uh combines faculty from across two different departments.
Some of them are in the School of Education
and then a lot of us are in the Math
Department. We take advantage of that and a lot
of different ways across all of our programs. We
take advantage of it in terms of connections that we're
able to have. We have a large presence across
campus because we have connections to the College of Science
to faculties and departments such as the uh Psychology Department
and the Physics Department. And then in the School
of Education we have connections to learning sciences faculty,
special education faculty. So it gives us an
opportunity to network much wider than we could if the
whole group existed in just one or the other.
But we work seamlessly across several programs in our elementary
education program the future elementary school teachers take a
sequence of mathematics courses specifically designed for them and they
go on to complete their masters in the school of
education. In the secondary program, they all complete a
math degree in their undergraduate program. And then in
the fifth year they're able to complete a masters degree.
They're able to do that because there's so much
of their content for the masters included within uh their
coursework as they're completing a undergraduate degree in mathematics.
So they come out very well prepared several field experiences,
a lot of mathematics experiences without sacrificing the education
courses that teach them about educational issues more broadly.
Um, and then for our graduate students, we
actually have graduate students both in the school of education
and in the math department, but it really looks
like one community. We have seminars that we share.
We have research projects that we share. We
collaborate, they collaborate with faculty, faculty from both
the School of Ed and Math Department of course, served
on their committees. And then for us as researchers
as well, uh, we take advantage of
the fact that we have feet in two different places,
but we act as one community and so from
those of us within the math education group at Virginia
Tech, we are one community. Okay. Think
that does it. All right, okay. You