Archives for the 'college teaching' Category
Student Loans
Published on 11 Aug 2007 at 3:04 pm.
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Filed under college teaching, politics.
The Fall Semester is soon going to begin. Once again the campus will be filled with students looking for their classrooms and filling up the parking lots. This is going to be happening all over the country. But, these students are going to have to pay for their classes. In this […]
Has anyone seen my flying saucer?
Published on 26 Jun 2007 at 9:45 pm.
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Filed under Uncategorized, astrophotography, college teaching.
One of the things that comes from being an astronomy professor is that whenever anyone calls the college and asks about anything in the sky, the operators relay them to me. Also, if you do a search of the college faculty for astronomy faculty, my name is prominently displayed, along with my office number. Normally, […]
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Math Moves U
Published on 21 Jun 2007 at 3:40 pm.
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Filed under Uncategorized, college teaching.
Raytheon has come up with something that looks very interesting to me. It is called Math Moves U.  This is math contest for kids ages 10 to 14. The contest web page allows contestants to answer various mathematics problems related to a mission to Mars. The questions should be suitable for good math students […]
Summer School
Published on 13 Jun 2007 at 11:46 pm.
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Filed under college teaching.
As usual, summer school is playing havoc with me. This summer is worse. I am teaching twice as many classes as I have the last few summers, and I’m on a committee that is meeting once per week, too. The rest of the people on the committee seem not to be burdened […]
One in Four
Published on 14 May 2007 at 4:26 pm.
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Filed under college teaching.
The local newspaper is doing an interesting series on Texas public schools. This past weekend, we had a very contentious school board election. The state legislature is babbling about education, funding of education, and “accountability” of educators, including talk of a statewide test for college students, to go along with the statewide […]
The semester is over!
Published on 11 May 2007 at 6:06 pm.
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Filed under college teaching.
Back when I was a student, I struggled at the end of every semester. There was too much due at the end, and the exams were all high pressure, and there were a lot of them all within a few days. How terrible it seemed! And, I thought that my professors didn’t understand. I felt […]
Lookback Lab
Published on 30 Apr 2007 at 8:53 pm.
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This is the last week of the classes at my college. Next week is final exams. For our last laboratory exercise, I like to do something easy and fun (and very easy to grade!).
Some of our labs involve observations, other labs involve lots of computations. So, I thought that I’d do something […]
