Currently teaching
This quarter I am the coordinator and one of the instructors for Math 19: Calculus.
Teaching materials
Over the years I have created some teaching-related materials.
- A handout on designing course policies. This document accompanied my hour-long workshop at the Fall 2009 Letters and Science Teaching Assistant Training Program on the same subject. It was created with the financial support of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
- A study skills handout for students taking calculus. Half of the material is specific to UW-Madison, but the rest applies to any math class an undergraduate might take. This document was created with the financial support of the Wisconsin Emerging Scholars Program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Past teaching
At UW-Madison I was the TA coordinator and instructor for Math 101: Intermediate Algebra for four semesters, in addition to sitting on the Pre-Calculus Sequence Redesign Committee from 2009 to 2012 (where in particular we redesigned Math 101). In Spring and Fall 2010 we used the software ALEKS. In Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 we used the software MyMathLab, which is the software we ended up settling on for the pre-calculus portion of WisCEL. In the middle, in Spring 2011, we used the software Hawkes, and I worked with it a little bit, even though I was not an instructor.
In Spring 2011 I was the instructor for Math 130: Mathematics for Teaching: Numbers and Operations, Lecture 2. Here is the syllabus for the class, and below are all of the worksheets, homework sets, and various handouts from that semester.
| Worksheets | Homework | |
|---|---|---|
| Worksheet 1 (1.1-1.2) | Worksheet 2 (1.3-1.4) | Homework 1 |
| Worksheet 3 (1.5-1.6) | Worksheet 4 (1.6-2.1) | Homework 2 |
| Worksheet 5 (2.2-2.3) | Worksheet 6 (3.1-3.2) | Homework 3 |
| Worksheet 7 (3.3-3.4) | Worksheet 8 (3.4-3.5) | Homework 4 |
| Worksheet 9 (3.6) | (Review 1) | Homework 5 |
| (Exam 1) | Worksheet 10 (4.1) | Homework 6 |
| Worksheet 11 (4.2-4.3) | Worksheet 12 (5.1-5.2) | Homework 7 |
| Worksheet 13 (5.3-5.4) | Worksheet 14 (5.3-5.4) | Homework 8 |
| Worksheet 15 (5.5) | Worksheet 16 (6.1-6.2) | Homework 9 |
| Worksheet 17 (6.3) | Worksheet 18 (6.4) | Homework 10 |
| (No Worksheet) | (Review 2) | Homework 11 |
| (Exam 2) | Worksheet 19 (7.1) | Homework 12 |
| Worksheet 20 (7.2-7.3) | Worksheet 21 (7.4) | Homework 13 |
| (No Worksheet) | (No Worksheet) | Homework 14 |
| (No Worksheet) | (Review) | Homework 15 |
| Handouts |
|---|
| Practice Exam 1 as well as the solutions to it. |
| A review document for Exam 1. |
| A proof of the Divisibility Test for 4, with extra fun activities. |
| The last question of Exam 2. |
| Practice Exam 2 as well as the solutions to it. |
| A review document for Exam 2. |
| What would be Practice Exam 3, if there were an Exam 3, as well as the solutions to it. |
| What would be a review document for Exam 3, if there were an Exam 3. |
| A Study Guide for the Final. |
| A blank copy of Exam 1 and a blank copy of Exam 2. |
In Fall 2009 I was a TA for Doctor Wei's Lecture of Math 213: Calculus and Introduction to Differential Equations, Sections 303 and 304.
In Spring 2009 I was a TA for Professor Smith's Lecture of Math 320: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Sections 321 and 322.
| Quiz solutions |
|---|
| Quiz 1 |
| Quiz 2 |
| Quiz 3 |
| Quiz 4 |
| Quiz 5 |
| Quiz 6 |
| Quiz 7 |
| Handouts |
|---|
| The syllabus for the class. |
| Some worked out problems from Sections 1.2 and 1.3. |
| A few facts about Taylor series expansions. |
| Here is an Excel file showing how to implement the various Euler schemes in Excel, along with a pdf file explaining what is happening. |
| An alternative solution to the first problem of the first midterm. |
| Solutions to a problem from Section 4.5. |
| An excellent reference on nth roots and roots of polynomials. |
| Solutions to selected problems from Homework 3. |
| A summary of the general solution of an Euler equation. |
| A series of questions exploring concepts from linear algebra. |
| The sections we have covered from Boyce and DiPrima. |
| Problem 26 from Section 7.3 (or what to do with complex eigenvalues). |
I also was a TA for Math 171: Calculus with Algebra and Trigonometry I in Fall 2006, the WES (Wisconsin Emerging Scholars) section of Math 234: Calculus - Functions of Several Variables in Spring 2007, Math 213: Calculus and Introduction to Differential Equations in Fall 2007, Math 217: Calculus with Algebra and Trigonometry II in Spring 2008, and the WES section of Math 234: Calculus - Functions of Several Variables in Fall 2008, but that was all before I had a website.