WHAT:  The Penn Science Cafe, is your chance to ask your questions directly to leading scientific experts.  

WHO: Dennis DeTurck, professor of mathematics and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

WHERE:  The MarBar, 40th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia

WHEN:   6 p.m., Monday, May. 22

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Menu items available for purchase

Why is math hard?  Or rather, why does it seem so hard?

Our kids  our entire society, perhaps  seems to be math-phobic, yet math is the underpinning of all we know about science and finance.

This month at the Penn Science Cafe, Dr. DeTurck will discuss the future of math education and whether our kids will be able to crunch numbers before the numbers crunch them.  

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