The Student Experience
Project-based learning requires a sustained effort from instructors and students. Students cannot expect to start the project the week it...
Student Grades
Is it possible to assign a grade completely on machine graded problems? I want to see the work my students...
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....
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...
Medical Insurance Project
In a previous post, I described a choice I had to make regarding health insurance during the summer. In short,...
Engage Students By Making Them Board
Back around 1980, I got my first computer. As I recall, it had the brand name Sinclair and it was...
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...
Use a Blog to Help Teach Your Math Class (Part 2)
So you have created your first post and are thinking about how you might use a blog in your class....
Use a Blog to Help Teach Your Math Class (Part 1)
Before I tell you about how you might use a blog in the classroom, let’s look at one of the...
Creativity in Math?
In an earlier post, I mentioned a on creativity killers. This post spurred me to examine my own teaching strategies...
