October 2021 – Page 2 – Math Belongs to All of Us

October 5 Day 576: Inconceivable

I just finished a virtual meeting with a student who was asking questions about the written homework due tonight (at 11:59 pm). He kept holding his work up to the laptop camera and I squinted to make out the writing. Hoping we could work differently, I asked, “What’s your favorite collaborative whiteboard?” Crickets. It wasContinue reading “October 5 Day 576: Inconceivable”

October 4 Day 575: Oops

It’s still early in the quarter so I hope that I will be forgiven my early mistakes. I arrived to the classroom 30 minutes early to get all the technology set up. I am using Zoom to record the class, my iPad to screenshare to the meeting, and the computer projector to display everything inContinue reading “October 4 Day 575: Oops”

October 3 Day 574: Old Routines are not Necessarily Good Routines

It’s the weekend during the regular academic year and it feels like nothing has changed. What does that mean? Phone calls with family and grading. It feels so familiar. The biggest difference is there is one more call to make now, having two sons away at college. UW Tacoma’s Matrix Algebra class is writing-intensive (a.k.aContinue reading “October 3 Day 574: Old Routines are not Necessarily Good Routines”

October 2 Day 573: Gather ‘Round

It is amazing to think that my first post about the virtual networking application Gather Town (gather.town), was one year and one day ago. The first space I created from scratch was for the November 2020 UW Tacoma Julia Robinson Math Festival. It replicated William Philip Hall, where the festival would have been held inContinue reading “October 2 Day 573: Gather ‘Round”

October 1 Day 572: Coincidence?

I attended two mathematically themed events today, the National Association of Mathematician’s MATHFest (Day 1) and the gallery opening reception of the Seattle Universal Math Museum art exhibit “For the LOVE of MATH!” Both were joyous occasions. I drove north to Mercer island in the early evening to celebrate the mathematically inspired (and often mathematicallyContinue reading “October 1 Day 572: Coincidence?”