Patient and Compassionate Math Professor

I became a professor because easing my students' fear of failure and cultivating the love of discovery in its place is among my greatest joys. When people learn I'm a math professor, they often confess their aversion to math. That distaste is sadly well-earned: math education tends to favor memorization of obscure formulae over the development of an understanding of the beautiful logic of the subject. This harmful pedagogy is exacerbated by the common but unhealthy identification of good g... Read More >>