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Tips for New Grad Students
Photo Credit: Stephanie Blanda It’s that time of year again – the summer is coming to an end, classes are getting started, and new grad students are arriving on campus. Graduate school can be an...
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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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The Method of Markers
It’s Halloween time and kids will soon be trick-or-treating. But if your kids pool their candy, how can you make sure that each child receives a fair share? That’s where the method of markers can help!...
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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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Bridging the Gap 2: Eine Kleine NachtMathematics
Created on http://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/ This time of year, a new crop of math majors are stepping off college campuses and into the next phases of their lives. Some go to industry, some into...
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Fresh Beginnings
A new school year is upon us, bringing new classes to teach or to take, depending on your year, new classmates to mentor or intimidate, depending on your mood, and in the illustrious high-paying...
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...
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Matrix Multiplication Made Easy
(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Matrix, part I) For those of you charged with teaching a linear algebra course or still struggling to picture the complicated dance of mass arithmetic...
View ArticleA Few Math Riddles
Hello, and welcome! I wanted to make my first post for this blog about something light, so I thought I would share three of my favorite “over-the-dinner-table” math riddles/problems. These are all in...
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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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The Oscars of Mathematics
Professor Ian Agol (Søren Fuglede Jørgensen, Wikipedia – Creative Commons) Congratulations to Ian Agol for being awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, the so-called, “Oscars of Science”...
View ArticlePrelims and Master’s Exams Tips
Hello there! I’m Shelby, a math PhD student at University of Illinois – Chicago. For my first post, I’d like to share some tips I’ve gathered on acing preliminary exams and master’s exams. Not every...
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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...
View ArticleMath Puzzles/Riddles, Part II
Hi! For this month, we have two new math problems/riddles, once again posted without solutions (in order to encourage discussion). Have fun! LIFE ON A CHESSBOARD Most of you are probably familiar with...
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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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Visualizing Newton’s Method
Well for most of us winter break is coming to an end, or for the unlucky might have already ended, which means its time to start thinking about teaching again. One of the topics commonly covered in a...
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Interview with Leo Goldmakher
By Stephen Ai Goldmakher tells Ai about the importance of creativity and ownership in mathematics. How did you get interested in mathematics? When I was in 7th grade, in Boston, I enrolled in an...
View ArticleHats, Parties, and Driving Cars (Mathematical Puzzles/Riddles, Part III)
Hi, and happy (late) new year! The holidays are drawing to a close (or have already closed) and classes are starting (or have already started). In case you don’t want to think about all of that, here...
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Interview with Julie Blackwood
Blackwood tells Herrera about her experience with mathematics and ecology. How did you get interested in applying mathematics to ecology? When I was applying for college, I had to apply to a major...
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