Math Movement

As the fall semester of 2010 ended, I assigned a rather comical assignment in my Calculus 2 classes. Students were told that the assignment was designed to aid in their preparations for the final exam. They could work with up to 2 other students. The assignment involved picking any content of the semester and create […]

Let’s learn some math by doodling.  Let’s specifically learn the Euler Characteristic, which given it is attributed to Euler should lead to big expectations as to its power!  Why?  Let’s review a bit of mathematical history. Leonard Euler Euler was a famous mathematician who lived during the 1700’s.  He wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages […]