Natural Blogarithms

This is the title of an article in a recent edition of i.e. (interactive educator, by Smart Technologies).  You can download this month’s magazine  by clicking on the image.  I was surprised at how insightful I found several of the articles in ths issue.  I didn’t quite know what to expect from an article in [...]

Question:
Which is more fun,
a) Filling in for a colleague with sick kids, getting to teach her Abstract Algebra Class,
b) Filling in for a colleague with jury duty, getting to teach her College Algebra Class,
c) Typing up the committee minutes for last weeks Executive Committee Meeting, or
d) Designing and implenting a random knot search algorithm in [...]

I am so glad to be back in the classroom. Every summer, I spend a significant portion of my time dedicated to research. As a result, each year at this time, I almost always convince myself to start looking for a full time position in a research institution, perhaps even leave the world [...]