Natural Blogarithms

A couple of weeks ago, I finished reading a book that had been recommend in an article I was reading at the MAA website (Mathematical Association of America).  The book was called “The Housekeeper and the Professor” by Yoko Ogawa.
I highly recommend this book as a quick read.  It’s a heartwarming tale that wraps [...]

Thank you Twitter! 
More specifically, I’m grateful to one of the co-chairs of the ICTCM conference for watching twitter and seeing my lament that I would not be able to attend the conference this year because I didn’t have the travel funds.

On February 11th, I posted:
Still trying to decide if ICTCM is in the cards [...]

As part of the group project that was assigned in my Differential Equations course, students were required to write a project report.  I just wanted to post quickly today that I am significantly impressed with the performance of these students on the assignment provided. 
In preparation for the writing portion of the project, I [...]

Stumbled across an interesting little post about 5 ways that you can lie with your graphs.  Actually, a better lesson to take from the post is “5 ways other people lie with their graphs and now you can call them on it.”
The post was on Talking Squid, entitled “Five Easy Lies”: Two of the most [...]

From an article by Mary Ann Bragg which appeared on CapeCodeOnline and was also printed in this month’s College Mathematics Journal:
TRURO — Voters narrowly approved one of four zoning amendments late Tuesday night at the annual town meeting. But town officials were still looking at the exact vote count on that article yesterday.
In a vote [...]

I’ve not studied much of the history of mathematics but occasionally I read from a few books I have on my shelf on the subject.  When my mind is bogged down and I am unmotivated on my current projects, I pick up, say, Makers of Mathematics, by Stuart Hollingdale.
Today, I flipped open to the [...]

This week I was given the privilege of leading our campus Environmental Stewardship Bible Study.  Currently the study is walking through various sections of the Bible in order to provide a scriptural foundation for concepts in environmental stewardship.  It was my good pleasure to lead a study on Psalms.  While the actual Bible Study [...]

During Calculus last week, we covered slope fields and Euler’s method of first order initial-value problems of the form

During class we demonstrated the use of slope field to perform a basic qualitative analysis. We utilized a couple of different online applets as well as Maple 13.
Visualizing Slope Fields and solutions Another similar page, with zoom
Direction [...]

Last week, a friend on Facebook pointed me to a story that seemed like it would be of interest to mathematician like myself but upon reading the story, there were a number of quirky details in the story and some important details missing.  It made me suspicious.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant living in [...]

Last week, I received an email from a reader regarding the online mathematics program at the University of Illinois in Springfield.  I wasn’t familiar with the program and have started taking a closer look.  One of the questions that was asked by that reader was what sort of things should he be looking for [...]