Use a Blog to Help Teach Your Math Class (Part 3)
As a mathematics teacher, it all begins and ends with how easy it is to put math into a blog....
Find the Demand Function
Suppose that the demand and price for strawberries is related by a linear demand function of the form
p= D(x)
where p...
3 Books that will help you to Understand Math
Many college students struggle to understand the core concepts of mathematics in college because they failed to grasp basic concepts...
How to Sustain Projects in College Algebra and Finite Mathematics (Part 1)
Over the past several semesters, I have developed a series of student projects that I use in College Algebra and...
How to Sustain Projects in College Algebra and Finite Mathematics (Part 3)
The first two projects in the College Costs series focus on linear and quadratic models. In this post, we’ll look...
Medical Insurance Project – Graph the Total Annual Cost
In the last two posts, I described the first steps in modeling the total annual cost as a function of...
A Different Approach to Optimization Problems
Historically, maximization problems have been a problem for calculus students. Not so much in finding critical points from functions and...
Creativity in Math?
In an earlier post, I mentioned a on creativity killers. This post spurred me to examine my own teaching strategies...
How to Sustain Projects in College Algebra and Finite Mathematics (Part 2)
In the College Algebra course taught at Yavapai College, modeling data with different types of functions is a key focus....
Medical Insurance Project
In a previous post, I described a choice I had to make regarding health insurance during the summer. In short,...
