Category Archives: Rants

Thoughts on a Word Problem

Posted on December 29, 2023 by jrh794

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Make the Course Yours – A Response to AI in the Classroom

Posted on December 1, 2023 by jrh794

Response to the ubiquity of generative AI on college campuses must include rearticulation of both institutional and personal purpose.  Justin Wolpers’ excellent webinar laid out the problem in stark terms.  Nearly all college students use GPT for some of their … Continue reading →

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Do We Really Need Fraction Bars?

Posted on November 13, 2019 by jrh794
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I Love Math – And It Makes Me Glad

Posted on March 15, 2019 by jrh794

I love the game of Go, I love golf, I love my wife, I love teaching, and I love math – and this makes me glad. Eight years ago, I ended that sentence with the word, “sad.”  Eight years of … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Load – The Student Experience

Posted on November 13, 2018 by jrh794

“Intellectual load” as applied to website design refers to the  extraneous thinking and decision-making caused by poorly organized, inconsistent web page layout and functionality. I would like to apply this concept to the college student experience.  I  extend the definition … Continue reading →

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Elementary Statistics – Somebody Do Something, Please

Posted on August 21, 2018 by jrh794

The traditional college-level elementary statistics for non-majors course needs a big change.  p-value reasoning should be replaced with Bayesian models.  The class, call it Stat 101, is the only contact with data analysis methods that most college students will ever … Continue reading →

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My Worries

Posted on June 7, 2018 by jrh794

I worry that I sometimes waste my students’ time.  I know the standard lower levels of our math curriculum have antiquated parts. I need to  devise ways of delivering this required material in a modern context. I worry that my … Continue reading →

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Bang for the Faculty Buck

Posted on April 20, 2018 by jrh794

As part of strategic planning, we are having discussions on campus about what our (college faculty’s) work will look in twenty years. One exercise was to list the percentage of time spent among various tasks. For many of us the … Continue reading →

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Non-conscious Deep Work

Posted on January 16, 2018 by jrh794

I enjoy visiting the Study Hacks blog.  Its author, Cal Newport, writes about organizing one’s tasks with emphasis on doing the deep work required of a college professor, in his case, proving theorems and writing papers.  His latest book is, … Continue reading →

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Dusting the Book Shelves

Posted on September 26, 2017 by jrh794

A summer chore was to dust the book shelves in my home.  As you can see, the shelves (There are two more bays of shelves to the right.)  have an open design thus collecting their share of dust and incidentally … Continue reading →

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