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The Four Color Theorem
Photo Credit: Stephanie Blanda This weekend, I was helping paint flats for a play when an interesting problem arose – we wanted to use three colors of paint to create rectangles of different sizes on a...
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Classes Starting – Tech Note-Taking Resources
With classes starting back up again, I thought it might be nice to share my favorite note taking resources. I bought an iPad Air a while back and love the Adonit Jot Script that I purchased for it....
View ArticleFields Medal 2014
Congratulations to the 2014 Fields Medalists! Every four years, the International Mathematical Union (IMU) awards the Fields Medal to two, three, or four mathematicians under forty, recognizing them...
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Carmichael’s Totient Conjecture
Photo Credit: Avery Carr In the wake of mathematical enlightenment a profound understanding of basic notions bridges the gap between the conceptual and concrete. In many cases, problems that have an...
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Lone-Divider Method – How to Fairly Divide a Pie
Photo acquired from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository Saturday was the Pi Day of a lifetime – 3/14/15 9:26:53! Hopefully all of you were able to share some delicious pie with your friends...
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On our path towards a more diverse mathematical community
Picture acquired from Pixabay (free for comercial use // No attribution required). As informed in an article published by the AMS [1], only 6% of mathematics PhD degrees conferred to U.S. citizens in...
View ArticleMy solution to a panicked classroom
Coming into grad school, I had little experience communicating mathematics to students who were not already committed to learning the material and minimal background in educational pedagogy. This post...
View ArticleFive Things to do as a Graduate Student in Mathematics
I would like to share with you my first year experience as a graduate student in mathematics at Washington State University, and I want to give you some suggestions about what you should do as a...
View ArticleCHAT-ing Our Way to a Better Community
Back in May, Alexander Diaz wrote about diversity in the mathematical community and gave some great advice on how to foster a more diverse community. In our mathematics department at CU, we are taking...
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Teaching Calculus: Two Handy Techniques
In my five years of teaching calculus, I’ve noticed that students often struggle with partial fractions and integration by parts. Therefore, here are two alternative methods I use that are faster and...
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How I help my Students overcome their Fears, create a Supportive Classroom,...
During my five years of teaching experience as a teaching assistant including teaching, grading and math tutoring at Washington State University (WSU) and American University of Sharjah (AUS), I have...
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Looking At The Prism
We are almost there! I imagine most of you reading this are beginning to see light at the end of tunnel that is Winter break. If you are like me this also means you are ridiculously busy with all the...
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How to change the Traditional Mathematics Teaching from the...
During my Calculus II teaching in Fall 2015 at Washington State University (WSU), several students told me that “Volumes” is one of the most difficult topics in Calculus II, and they also told me “it...
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Matrices and MLK Day
When I learned how to multiply matrices in 10th grade, my initial reaction was, “Why on earth would anyone ever want to do that?” Compared to addition and subtraction, the rules of matrix...
View ArticleOvercoming the Challenges of Grad School: An International Student’s Perspective
As a graduate student in mathematics, I would like to tell you my story about the major challenges that I have faced during my graduate studies in mathematics and how I overcame these challenges to...
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The Benefits of Tutoring: More Than Extra Income
Tutoring can benefit the teacher as much as the student with valuable experience outside the classroom. Photo by Alexi Hoeft, used with permission. A guest post from Natalie Coston: Every Monday...
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Overcoming the Challenges of Grad School: Preparing for Qualifying Exams
Photo by Mohammed Kaabar One of the major challenges during my graduate studies was the preparation for the Graduate Qualifying Exam (GQE). I started preparing for that exam six months in advance, and...
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For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.
As the perhaps apocryphal story goes, the title of this piece is a six-word novel written by Ernest Hemingway as part of a bet while at lunch with a group of writers. The idea behind the six-word...
View ArticleThe Role of Generalization in Advanced Mathematical Thinking
Generalization and abstraction both play an important role in the minds of mathematics students as they study higher-level concepts. In the second chapter of the Springer book Advanced Mathematical...
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“A Game With Mirrors”
Throughout my grad school experience, from conference registration forms and university-wide surveys to actual grad school applications themselves, I have often run into the following question: Always...
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