by Casia Siegel When you think about math, what do you think? What feelings does it invoke? What kinds of interactions have you had with it? As someone who does math just about every single day, many people have expressed to me the negative connotations they have associated with the subject. Lots of the time,…
by Morgan McArthur, biology GLA As an undergraduate engineering student, writing assignments always seemed like a chore to me. “Why should I spend a few hours writing when my equations show the results right here?” That line of thinking persisted until the final year of my undergraduate program when I was taking my senior design…
by Jack Boczar Opening It was only a few months ago that I graduated with two bachelor’s degrees as a twenty-two year old. And yet, here I am thrust into teaching students that are almost my own age. While quite strange, it has been great fun, and I do look forward to next semester when…
by Peter Francis Cassels Many people whose formal mathematical education ended in high school or early college would describe mathematics as the study of numbers and shapes. If asked further, perhaps they would spend some time recalling the tedium of performing calculations, or of solving contrived word problems which are far removed from any sort…