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jason.marton@tamuk.edu or 361-593-4143

Respected educator Dr. Frank Wang offers day-long workshop March 8

KINGSVILLE (February 21, 2006) — Educator and speaker Dr. Frank Wang will be guest lecturer for a free two-part workshop Wednesday, March 8, from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in ballroom B of the Memorial Student Union Building at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

The morning session will look at “The Five Keys to Successful Teaching” and the afternoon session is titled “Beauty of Mathematics & Using Fruits to Teach Higher Math.”

Admission is free, but attendees must reserve a space for each session by calling 361-593-2598 or emailing kaclk00@tamuk.edu. Deadline to register is Friday, March 3.

Once labeled a child with no academic potential, Wang took it upon himself to start a course of self-study of math in the seventh grade. He went on to master higher mathematics and, eventually, earned a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from MIT.

While a junior in high school, Wang assisted publisher John Saxon on a book. This led to a professional relationship between the two that culminated in Wang being named president of Saxon Publishing in 1994. The publishing house produces textbooks used by more than seven million students nationwide.

Wang later held the position of chairman of the board at Saxon Publishing before leaving in 2003 to teach full-time at the University of Oklahoma and at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. He would leave those teaching positions to found his own after-school math enrichment program called Dr. Frank’s Bushiban School, where he experimented with ideas about how to effectively teach higher math to students as young as fifth grade.  

Wang also started an enterprise called Wang Education that will take the ideas learned from his Bushiban school and create DVDs and accompanying student and teacher materials that can be used in classrooms and by homeschoolers, to teach advanced concepts of math to school-aged children.  

H e is presently developing a program called "In Search of Calculus" that will teach students as young as fifth grade the basic concepts of calculus.  Wang Education also developed educational games to help expand students' mathematical reasoning skills.

For more information on the workshop, call 361-593-2598 or email kaclk00@tamuk.edu.

This page last updated 22 February, 2006