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Michael Pershan asks some good questions about how to approach the teaching of complex numbers . Fawn Nguyen has another Math Talk with h...

John's was the first post I saw about the silly complaint going around from "Frustrated Parent". (Now I've seen about thre...

I got my master's degree at Eastern Michigan University. It makes me happy to see them on the web . Colorful related rates problems, a...

Looking for pictures of water coming out of a hose in a parabolic arc, I stumbled across this post about using geogebra to come up with an ...

Yesterday I was introducing the number e, and telling the students that my preferred definition of e is "the number that makes a slope ...

Math Circle Institute July 7th – 11th, 2014  The seventh annual Math Circle Institute will be held on the Campus of Notre Dame, in Sout...

I have to clear out all my open tabs! First off, John Golden has created a great Carnival of Mathematics #108 . (John, how can I get any ...

Part One: The Plans Tomorrow I start our third unit in calculus with an introduction to the chain rule. This deep into the semester, I have...

So many good posts lately! How will I ever remember all this good stuff?! Sam, on having courage, and math as a creative endeavor . Para...

Maria Droujkova was interviewed in The Atlantic! Woo hoo! Go, Maria. The title? Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus . In the LA Times, Edwar...