SIMIODE

Sep 2016

1. Math Insight - A Place To Be

   Entry #82

   19 Sep 2016

   12:58 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Probably like many of you, we wander around the Internet looking for good things mathematically and pedagogically. Once in a while we stumble across a real gem and Math Insight is such a gem. The group describes itself  this way, "The Math Insight web site contains both narrative pages...

2. What are the effects of mathematics education research - one study's results

   Entry #81

   16 Sep 2016

   12:43 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Way back in March 2016 there appeared a very interesting article, “Can Math Education Research Improve the Teaching of Abstract Algebra,” in the  Notices of the American Mathematics Society. Here is complete citation: Fukawa-Connelly, Tim, Estralla Johnson, and Rachel Keller....

3. In mathematics when you're right you know you're right.

   Entry #80

   11 Sep 2016

   11:45 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Adam Kirsch reviews Anthony Gottlieb's new book, The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, published by Liveright/Norton in 2016 in the 5 September 2016 issue of The New Yorker. Kirsch says in his review, “Descartes described reality in terms of qualities that can be...

4. Checking out what is on the other side of the fence

   Entry #79

   06 Sep 2016

   8:28 am

   Brian Winkel

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   As I wander the  internet looking for colleagues who are doing modeling in differential equations I stumble upon lots, I mean lots, of peripheral or related materials. One type of material is what I would call review material or prep materials for cognate courses. Often, these are notes on...

5. Mathematics grips the world through differential equations.

   Entry #78

   05 Sep 2016

   11:48 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Andrew Gleason, that wonderful member of our mathematics community, who taught at Harvard for so many years and led the successful calculus reform effort there said, "Mathematics grips the world through differential equations." Dan Flath of Macalester College shared that in his rich...