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Math Jam Fall 2025

Math Jam is a huge review session where LAs, TAs and instructors come together to help students prepare before finals week.

To register to Math Jam for Fall 2025, click here.

The Fall 2025 version of Math Jam will be held on Friday, December 12 from 9am to 2pm on the 3rd and 4th floors of Keller.  All students from Math 134, 140X, 215, 241, 242 and 252A are invited to this event.

For more information, you may contact mathjam@math.hawaii.edu

We are looking forward to see you there!

Math 134, Math 140, Math 241, Math 242, Math 251A, Math 252A

Review before your math final

When: Friday, December 12, from 9am to 2pm.

Where: Keller Hall (3rd and 4th floor)

Ask your instructor for more information

Donuts, coffee, math? RSVP here.

Map of rooms

UH News report

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New AI unit in Math 100

Math 100 now features a new unit covering AI, including analyzing what makes ChatGPT and Gemini work, and how students can use them responsibly and effectively. These AI tools and concepts are also woven throughout the course. This new initiative was selected as part of UH’s ongoing Integrating AI into Curriculum initiative.

“By engaging directly with new AI tools, our learning assistants are not only supporting their peers but also preparing to be part of a broader shift in how technology is integrated into math education,” said UH Mānoa math Professor Monique Chyba, who co-teaches the course with Professor Elizabeth Gross. “This is about equipping the next generation to shape, rather than just follow, the future of learning.”

You can read more about Math 100’s advances in this UH News Article.

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Guentner wins Teaching Award

Erik Guentner won the UH Math’s Annual Departmental Teaching Award. Yuriy Mileyko presented the award on behalf of the department, and Guentner’s citation included the following:

 

The amount of work that Erik invests in his preparation is truly impressive. For example, when teaching Math 480, he improved the students’ experience by providing them with a curated set of online videos which covered the relevant topics and by creating a set of good and bad presentations. Not only did this help students to better review the material and learn how give a better mathematical talk, it provided a nice blueprint for the other instructors teaching that course afterwards.

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All of this hard work did not go unnoticed by the students. They do appreciate Erik’s teaching style, with one student writing “When teaching us he first writes down all the steps and explains it very well. He always asks if we have any questions while he is teaching. Always making sure we understand.” Another student provided a nice list of adjectives: “Clear, thorough, understanding, fair, wise, experienced, helpful, available/flexible, funny.”

One anecdote that didn’t make it into Mileyko’s speech: In Spring 2025, Guentner’s students were so fond of him that one day they all dressed up like him! Photo attached.

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