Rainstorm 2020

Splash (across many institutions) went virtual this year! I taught two 25 minute courses, one on Soviet ballet (a condensed version of a 50 minute course I’ve taught in the past) and one on the map coloring (a section of one of my graph theory courses). While I’m glad to have tried this, I don’t think that I would do either of these in 25 minutes again.

MIT Splash 2019

At MIT Splash last fall, I taught two versions of an introductory graph theory class. I’ve taught both multiple times before; this was my fourth run of Bridges, Maps, and Networks (previous versions: Columbia Splash 2017, MIT Spark 2018, MIT Splash 2018)  and my third run of How to Mathematically Guard an Art Gallery (previous versions: Columbia Splash 2018, MIT Spark 2019). I’m presenting on both of these at the Joint Math Meetings next week.

MIT Splash 2018

MIT Spark is this weekend, and I remembered I hadn’t posted about Splash yet. I taught three sections of class at MIT Splash last November, one on graph theory and two on population dynamics.

MIT Spark 2018

MIT Spark was this past weekend, and I taught three classes. One was new, and though the other two weren’t, I’d never taught them for middle schoolers before. All of my classes had 25-30 students, which was great. I’m happy overall with how all three went, and I think I know the kinds of large-scale changes that would be helpful.

Columbia Splash, Fall 2017

I taught two courses for Columbia Splash this fall, each one hour long. The first was an introduction to graph theory, and the second was an introduction to mathematical modeling. The graph theory course was entirely new. I taught math modeling at Columbia and MIT last fall in two hour blocks, so this course was modified from that version.