Continuous Reflection

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries." - Carl Friedrich Gauss

Continuous Reflection
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Year: 2017

Intercepts and Asymptotes and Holes, Oh My!

I’ve been teaching for 27 years. This morning during a discussion of rational functions in a precalculus class, 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 massive confusion about holes. My hypothesis about Read more…


Why I Teach [Math]

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…