In 1992 and 1993, Professor
Mike Siddoway ran a three-week summer workshop at Colorado
College for high school students, funded by the National Science
Foundation, with Reinhard laubenbacher of New Mexico State
University. The 22 students who participated each year were
from across the country and primarily between their junior and
senior high school years. The aim of the program was to encourage
students to develop interest and enthusiasm for mathematics by
studying selected great problems using original sources. The
ability of primary source material to engage students' attention
and spur their efforts was dramatically evident.
The program and details of the course are described in:
Reinhard Laubenbacher and Michael Siddoway -
Great problems
of mathematics: a summer workshop for high school students.
The College Mathematics Journal 25 (1994), 112-114.
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