Posted in Classes on February 13th, 2007 5 Comments »
Okay, so I almost lost it today. All of my students can attest to the fact that I am generally a very laid back guy. In most cases, my students can give me a hard time in class, try to distract me by encouraging me to chase rabbits in class, they can even jest about how complicated the material is. I generally play along, all in good fun, and even use their comments to springboard into some great illustrations of application.
But every once in a while, I get pushed too far.
Posted in Classes, Linear Algebra on February 13th, 2007 No Comments »
In class today, we finished the section on partitioning matrices. We verified that that block matrices obey the same rules for matrix algebra. In particular, block matrix multiplication works as scalar multiplication as long as the dimensions are appropriate for the sub-matrices to be multiplied together. [...]
Posted in Classes, Faith and Science on February 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
In today’s class, we were fortunate to have one of my colleagues from our division direct the class. This is the third time this class has been offered at Wayland. The first two times, this faculty member and I co-taught the class. I’ll be honest and tell you that being the sole teacher this semester has been an enormous challenge, much greater than the last two. It was extremely helpful to have someone in class bouncing ideas off of. In the current scenario, I appear much more as the “expert” and less of the facilitator in the discussion. Today’s class was like the “good ole days”.[..]