"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 precalculus, 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 some student questions about holes. I’ve found rational Read more…
I’ve been teaching for 27 years. This morning during a discussion of rational functions in precalculus way of helping students to focus on a main idea suddenly occurred to me. I’ve found A few years back a student had an insight that gave me a way Read more…
January 31, 2017
I’ve been revising this precalculus activity over the past couple of years, and this year’s incarnation worked particularly well. It had its genesis in my experience with that not-small subset of calculus students who would routinely give up very early in the process when confronted 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…
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…
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 that was my contribution our family’s Christmas letter to family and friends this year. While I do enjoy math Read more…
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 that was my contribution our family’s Christmas letter to family and friends this year. While I do enjoy math Read more…