Through the process of combining two seemingly unlikely bedfellows, mathematics and composition, two instructors explain how rhetoric connects the art of writing and the art of doing mathematics in an inquiry-based learning community. Combining these two courses in a learning community enables students and instructors to practice the deep thinking valued by each instructor and by a traditional liberal arts education while challenging both our and our students’ individual, disciplinary, and rhetorical conventions and beliefs. Using student writing from our course, our assignments from mathematics and composition, and survey evaluation results, we demonstrate how engaging in inquiry-based education provides unconventional (and conventional) learning opportunities for both students and instructors. Furthermore, through our discussions of the four iterations of our Learning Community, we examine some ways interdisciplinary learning challenges structural, individual, and disciplinary expectations, conventions, and learning.

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数学，写作和修辞：一年级学习社区中的深入思考

通过将两个看似不太可能的基础研究员，数学和作文相结合的过程，两位讲师解释了修辞学如何在基于查询的学习社区中将写作艺术与做数学艺术联系起来。在学习社区中将这两门课程结合起来，使学生和讲师能够实践每位讲师和传统文科教育所珍视的深刻思维，同时挑战我们和我们学生的个人，学科和修辞习惯和信念。利用课程中的学生写作，数学和写作中的作业以及调查评估结果，我们证明了从事基于探究的教育如何为学生和教师提供非常规（和常规）学习机会。此外，