Room for improvement
Two weeks ago, I attended a talk by Robert Beichner on SCALE-UP, an active-learning program he developed at NC State. There were many things he said in his talk that really aligned well with many of my...
View ArticleA year-end list, because why not?
The last couple of weeks, all the blogs and sites I usually visit are full of Top Ten and other year-end lists. I thought that on this New Year’s Eve I would jump on the bandwagon and share my own …...
View ArticleOn an accelerated intro to proofs course: the good, the bad, the ugly, and...
O, the bittersweet feeling of the end of the school year. So much happiness to be done with the exhausting cycle of teaching and grading, but so sad to see many students graduating and leaving your...
View ArticleTalkin’ Bout A (Teaching) Revolution
I have always taken my teaching very seriously. Mainly because I believe that I am not just teaching my students mathematics, but general skills that will make them successful in life, regardless of...
View ArticleIPAMania
I just spent a week working intensively with 5 people from very different backgrounds, whom I had mostly never met, on a problem that I’d never seen before Monday. And it was great, though I did need...
View ArticleLecture-less Modern Algebra and Foundations, Part II
This semester I decided to move away from the lecture format in my Foundations and Modern Algebra courses. I wrote about this back in March so I will refer readers to my earlier blog post for the...
View ArticleHere is a new awesome text-based math game. Happy New Year!
Thank you, Mike Spivey, for writing and sending me a link to A Beauty Cold and Austere (ABCA), a new math-filled, text-based, interactive fiction game. What is text-based interactive fiction, you...
View ArticleRings first Abstract Algebra? Yes. Three and a half weeks? Yes. Recovery? In...
You may (or may not) have noticed that I have been totally absent from PhD Plus Epsilon for the last 6 weeks. If saw my office right now, you’d definitely notice that it looks like someone ransacked...
View ArticleYou Can’t Always Get What You Want
A few months ago I said it was “noble” that some were trying to recreate as exactly as possible in-person experiences online. Multiple weeks into the new semester, I no longer think this is noble. And...
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