Graduate Teaching Seminar: MATH F600 - Fall 2016

Announcements

• The lecture by Polya we watched and discussed is available online. We finished class at about the 42 minute mark (a little more actually) should you be interested in watching the rest.
• Tuesday and Thursday hours have moved to 11:15-12:15.
• Homework is due at 9 AM on the assigned date. I will provide LaTeX templates of the homework assignments below.

Agenda this week

• The updated course syllabus.
• Planning the course.
• Time management.
• A very brief introduction to grading.
• Making the most of office hours.
• Next week's reading and homework.

Resources

The course syllabus.

Outside Resources

• Teaching First, a Guide for New Mathematicians. We'll be using this one periodically throughout the term. It is available in print and web versions.
• An Introduction to Teaching Mathematics at the College Level
• A Mathematician's survival guide. A very amusing and frank article on aspects of the profession.
• More to come!

Homework Assignments by Due Date

Be sure to follow the instructions for the formatting of written assignments. Assignments will be available to download below.

Corrections to assignments due dates will be written in red.