Posts tagged: education

One of the things I'm always told by my colleagues who visit my classes is that I'm dry, serious, and even scary, and that's not how they know me outside classroom. So, I've been working on different...

Andrew Ng in his Corsera course for machine learning provides the following links for resources for Matlab. I have had a terrible time remembering all the syntaxes in matlab (because they are so...

In a huge graph, it is hard to determine a bottleneck by just looking at it, or doing any type of search. And by a bottleneck, I mean part of graph that is not very much connected to the other part....

Well, I'm planning on taking my Statistics students to a computer lab and introduce SQL to them through Khan Academy's Hour of Code program. What would you do?

> If anything, a continuing over-production of Ph.D.s will only make the problem worse. It creates an ever-growing pool of cheap labor, which administrators are only too happy to employ in place of...

I have students asking me why did we buy this book, and I've always had a hard time understanding that question, let alone answering it in a convincing way. Until I read the following. > "This is why...

It's been almost three weeks (5 days a week, 75 minutes a day) that I am teaching elementary linear algebra, and I can already talk mathematics with my students. It's been very rewarding. I am...

History of Mathematics

The case of the missing fractals