The Clicker Clique

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Adriana Salerno

This past Winter, I taught an Intro Stats course at Bates and I used clickers (classroom response systems) for the first time. In this post, I will write a bit about my personal experience using this technology, some ideas for how to use it for other classes, and why you might even want to do that in the first place. Hopefully, this will help you decide if you want to become part of this clique! Continue reading →

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This Math…

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Adriana Salerno

Presidents of the AWM at the banquet (courtesy of the AMS).

“This math is happy/ this math is practical/ from Galois Theory/ to Elliptic PDE/ from Lattice Crypto to Probability/ this math was made for you and me.” These lyrics, sung at the banquet for the AWM 40th Anniversary Conference to the tune of “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land”, convey, pretty accurately, the general atmosphere of the conference: it was fun, mathematically diverse, and a lot about celebrating how far women have come in mathematics. In this post, I will briefly describe my experiences at this conference. Continue reading →

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Syllabus Omnibus

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Adriana Salerno

I really wish there was one. I mean a big book with every syllabus ever written, not a mode of transportation for said syllabi. I think writing a good syllabus for your class is one of the most demanding parts of teaching. It sets the tone for the rest of the semester and it is pretty much a contract between you and your students, laying out what they are supposed to do and what you yourself are committing to. It’s been a bit more than a week since we started the semester at Bates and I have been mildly obsessive about the whole process. In this post, I will share some of the things I decided to do and the ideas behind them.

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