Category Archives: Teaching

Optimizing your teaching

By Diana Davis As a mathematician by nature and by trade, I like to approach the world in terms of trying to optimize things: minimizing the time I spend walking to the math department in order to maximize the amount … Continue reading

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Cheating and Learning in the Modern Context

By Kareem Carr I feel that we are rapidly approaching a future where the maxim, ‘Cheaters only cheat themselves’, obtains. I have, of late, come to understand, perhaps only in small part, the prodigious resources open to the modern mathematical … Continue reading

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When Your Students Cheat

By Kareem Carr One of the least favorable aspects of formal teaching for me is the phenomena of cheating. It puts me in a role that I am least interested in pursuing. That is to say, I have to wield … Continue reading

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Chalkboard Mechanics

by Derek Smith I participated in a departmental training session for first-time teaching assistants during my first week at UCSB. It showed me that I need improvement in some areas, despite many hours of tutoring and giving presentations. In particular, … Continue reading

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Broadening Scholarship

by Brian Katz What is your job as a graduate student? I think the answers to this question that you’ll hear floating down the halls differ substantially, depending in part on the definition of scholarship at your institution. And these … Continue reading

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