jfleron

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Blog entryDAoM and Math Majors jfleron08 years 5 months ago
Blog entryHow to Get Started jfleron09 years 9 months ago
Blog entryAssessment: Posters jfleron09 years 10 months ago
Blog entryAssessment: Students Creating Solution Sets jfleron09 years 10 months ago
Blog entryAssessment: Notebook and Multiple-Choice Quizzes jfleron09 years 10 months ago
Blog entryPythagorean Theorem Proofs jfleron010 years 3 months ago
Blog entryPennies & Paperclip Proofs jfleron010 years 3 months ago
QuoteWe work in groups every day on chapters the Professor and his colleagues have put together just for us. With the lessons, it feels like he purposely starts off with the irrelevant, basic steps then the problems become a little more difficult as the packe jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI am an English major. I know I’ve said this before, but that’s relevant to what I have to say. While being interviewed for the video, I said that I had re-thought my ideas about Math majors; that I hadn’t been completely won over by the mathemati jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI was just taking this class to get the grade and to get another chunk of my core done and over with.Looking back I realize how foolish my thinking was. I did not sign up for a typical math class, I signed up for a thinking and reasoning class that utili jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteThrough reading Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament I have taken away a major lesson that only helped to highlight the importance of the work we did in the classroom every day. That lesson is that "There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as r jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteThis math class is one of the first times I actually enjoyed being in a math class. It wasn't necessarily the material that made me like the class, but the overall experience. There were many times throughout the semester where I did not even feel like jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteAnother odd, but unique aspect of this class was the write up and/or reflections that were required after finishing up a particular unit. Confucius, a great Chinese philosopher, once said, ``he who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but d jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI thought that the teacher would just stand up at the board and write a bunch of stuff that I wouldn't understand and then we would have a big test on it and I would fail. To my surprise, it was nothing like that. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteThis class was truly unique. It was unlike any other class I have ever had. I had fun during class, and I learned from it at the same time. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI've always been good at math but I get board with courses like precalculus. Since I don't have any interest I don't want to learn it. What's unique about this course is the material we study actually means something to me. I can see how it's applied in t jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI had originally thought that my professor would be that of the likes of my Algebra 2 teacher. She had made us feel humiliated in front of the class if we did not know the answers. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteIt made it less mundane than an ordinary math class with a professor mumbling into the blackboard and not really helping any students. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI really said these things to a friend when he asked about the class. So, believe it or not, you were right, I did end up liking the class. You win. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI can't say that my feelings about mathematics have changed. I think that this course was just an exception. I can still remember back to taking math tests in high school... jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI used to think that mathematics was all about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing numbers and letters and that I would never have any real use for it at all. This class has really made me more optimistic towards mathematics. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteThis course has gotten rid of my cynical point of view about math and taught me that it can be a beautiful subject. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteNo one had to be shy about asking questions and if you helped out a fellow student you felt smart, like you had learned something in a math class. jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteAs the semester is about to end, the many weeks that I spent in your class were very educational, yet stress free. I have worked hard, like you said we would, but I feel that I really do understand the material and think that maybe all these years that I jfleron010 years 10 months ago
QuoteI described math to my family and they could not believe that I was actually enjoying the class. Because they know that I have had math phobia since sixth grade. jfleron010 years 10 months ago

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