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In responding to a comment on the last entry, I answered the questions of what equipment and software I am using to create our online course materials:

For our College Algebra course, we cover the last six chapters from an Intermediate Algebra textbook. There will be a lecture for each section of each of the chapters. [...]

I am currently developing an online course in College Algebra for Wayland. The hope is to have a series of video lectures, accompanied by a lecture notebook where the students will fill in the book as they watch the lectures. Below is a sample video from on the series. [...]

A Guide to Grading Exams [...]

In my Faith and Science course, when we covered the scientific models for origins of the universe, we studied the “mainstream” model of the Big Bang. I remember making the comment that for many Christians who are scientists, the idea of a Big Bang at the beginning of the universe is completely consistent with the idea of God as Creator. “God spoke and BANG, it was”.[..]

I have tried to do a little research into the compatibility of Maple 11 with Microsoft Vista. A student of mine report that he attempted to run his new copy of Maple 11 on his new Vista machine and was unsuccessful. I could not find a statement on the Maplesoft website confirming or [...]

I am LaTEX disciple when it comes to writing up my own papers (No, not as in spandex, but the typesetting language). However, when I work with undergraduate students who have not had any exposure to such a language, I tend to encourage them to use Microsoft Word. I also encourage them to use the Equation Editor in the their math papers even though I must cringe as I read them. I don’t cringe because they are using a Microsoft product, but that the mathematics typesetting is still just so unsightly.[..]

Here is an absolutely amazing application related to some of the topics we are currently covering in my Linear Algebra course. Note the use of the terms “Vector Space”, “linear combinations”, “distance” between vectors.
It is definitely worth 5 minutes of your time to watch.

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In July, 1999, Paul and Jack Abad presented their list of “The Hundred Greatest Theorems.” I was intrigued and though it might be interesting to re-post.
Their ranking is based on the following criteria: “the place the theorem holds in the literature, the quality of the proof, and the unexpectedness of the result.”
The list is of [...]

For a long time I have been planning to work up my mathematical genealogy using “The Mathematical Genealogy Project” site. They have the aspirations of documenting the entirety of the genealogy of ALL the mathematicians of the world. I had not heard of the site until after I graduated with my doctorate but was surprised to find quite a few BIG names in my academic heritages. Names like Gauss, Euler, Leibniz, Weierstrass, Hilbert, Poisson, Fourier, Klein, as well as many others.