Madelyn Claire, 2/3/12 (click for birth announcement)

Spring 2012 is cruising along. Madelyn joined us (she’s 103 days 10 hours old), I’m teaching one of my favorite classes for elementary education majors, and I’m finishing a year-long research study on persistence of students taking college math classes. With just 13505 days of work left, I expect many changes to come.

Recent Posts

Since Fall 2010, I’ve been working in TAMU-CC’s Math and Statistics Department as a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in mathematics education. Prior to moving to Corpus Christi, my wife Melissa and I lived in Greeley, CO while I completed a Ph.D. in Educational Mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado.

Spring 2012 Course Sites

Spring 2012 features 2 sections of SMTE 1350: Fundamentals of Mathematics I, which is a great introduction to the challenges of learning elementary school arithmetic. For more great math, check out the activities on Number & Ops (2009) or the many Course Sites.

Fund. of Math I Posts

Recent Course Sites

Father's Day 2011(click for more pics)

Gratuitous Math

Check out the batman equation (you know you want to).

Family Fun

  • The Two Girls have been working on an awesome site.
  • Arabella joined us September 30th, 2010 (she’s 594 days old.)
  • Madelyn ended her “labor strike” by joining us on February 3rd, 2012 (she’s 103 days old).

Video: Arabella’s First Steps


Some Random Mathlets

A Model of Marital Interaction

[caption id="attachment_3849" align="alignright" width="150" caption="High Risk vs. Low Risk Couples"][/caption] This activity is meant to illustrate the simulation-based analysis of a mathematical model. It is not really about marriage or love or any...

The Two Bins Problem

The Problem: Suppose you bought some material with a fixed length and height from the store. Use want to use the material to build a rectangular container with two bins and no top or bottom (see below). What’s the best way to make the box out of the...

Modeling an Alien Cat Virus

Have you ever wondered about an ever-growing population of cats on an island? [caption id="attachment_2237" align="alignright" width="228" caption="Feral cats can threaten native species of birds on an island."][/caption] This page contains an ac...