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Aerospace Engineering expert, Professor John-Paul Clarke, believes dominoes can help teach math

Jan 21st, 2024 | Category: GLEANER PREMIUM | 23:13

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#JamaicaGleaner Dr John-Paul Clarke is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas in Austin. He also holds the Ernest Cockrell Jr Memorial Chair in Engineering. Before that he was a Professor at Georgia Tech, and before that he was a Professor at the renown MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied, going there in 1987 after leaving his beloved alma mater Calabar High School. Addressing the education system in Jamaica currently compared to his time as a student here, he said small island development states like Jamaica and other third world counties usually imitate what they are doing in their system, a relic of our colonial past. One area he would like to research is using dominoes

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