Posted in Calculus IV, Classes, Mathematics on January 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Having just finished a very short chapter on vector functions, we began the chapter that will cover Partial Derivatives. Before we started that lecture, I took a little class time to answer a homework question. It was one of my favorites. Having covered the concept of curvature, the students were asked to . .
Posted in Classes, Intermediate Analysis, Mathematics on January 25th, 2007 No Comments »
In Intermediate Analysis this morning, three students each went to the board to present homework problems on basics of sets and mappings. This is first time that I have incorporated the oral presentation of homework as a part of an upper level mathematics course. It was one of my least favorite aspects of the graduate courses that I took and yet I realize just how formative it was in the development of my understanding for those courses. I have a stronger grasp of those courses in which such presentation was an essential portion of the course…