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LeTourneau math professor invents, licenses card game to teach trigonometry

The game developed by Dr. Curtis Wesley, a professor of mathematics, is called WAN and is designed to make principles of geometry unintimidating and fun to learn.

LONGVIEW, Texas — In a first for LeTourneau University, an intellectual property developed by a school professor was licensed to a private company.

The card game developed by Dr. Curtis Wesley, a professor of mathematics, is called WAN and is designed to make principles of geometry unintimidating and fun to learn.

Wesley's inspiration came from a familiar experience for many math teachers: student dread, specifically a dread of triangles — the root of trigonometry — and equations such as the Pythagorean theorem that govern them.

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