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

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Fresh eyes on end behavior of rational functions

Over the past few years of teaching precalculus regularly, I’ve experimented with a variety of approaches to rational functions in an attempt to find one that will result in students discovering and eventually truly understanding how the equation of a rational function determines its graph. I have never felt very Read more…


A Modern Log Table

After re-reading the first chapter of Eli Maor’s e: The Story of a Number, I ended up spending a couple of days creating a GeoGebra applet which I’ve called Napier’s Gift. Given that it’s July, I didn’t have a class to try it out on, Read more…


Practice finding the equation of a line

In order to begin learning to use JSXGraph (which also requires that I learn javascript) I created an application in which a line is randomly generated and the user enters what she thinks the equation is. Her equation is then graphed for comparison with the Read more…