"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries." - Carl Friedrich Gauss
February 20, 2017
I’ve been teaching for 27 years. This morning during a discussion of rational functions in a precalculus class, I had one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of this-years-ago moments, when I found myself drawing a Venn diagram on the board in response to massive confusion about holes. My hypothesis about Read more…
January 30, 2017
Inspired by Annie Perkins and her post “For Those Hesitant to Protest” and prodded by a friend to share the following more widely, I offer here the following passage which was my contribution our family’s Christmas letter to family and friends this year. While I do enjoy Read more…
