Effective Pedagogy in Calculus
Join Drs. Joel Hass, Christopher Heil, and Przemyslaw Bogacki as they discuss using high-quality exercises and figures to help students generalize in mathematics.
Dr. Joel Hass, University of California - Davis
Dr. Christopher Heil, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Przemyslaw Bogacki, Old Dominion University
Authors Joel Hass, Christopher Heil, and Przemyslaw Bogacki will give pedagogical context to their focus on clarity and precision in developing mathematical thinking in calculus courses. They will discuss using high-quality exercises and figures to help students generalize in mathematics. They will also highlight new material pointing towards more advanced topics in calculus. Many applications in the advanced topics focus on modern applications of calculus, such as neural networks and machine learning.
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About the speakers
Dr. Joel Hass, University of California - Davis
Joel Hass received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Davis. He has coauthored six widely used calculus texts as well as two calculus study guides and over 80 published research articles. He serves on the editorial board of Geometriae Dedicata, Journal of Applied and Computational Topology and Celbratio Mathematica, and is the current President of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and he was a Sloan Research Fellow. His areas of research include geometric topology, applications of geometry to biology, and the computational complexity of geometric problems.
Dr. Christopher Heil, Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher Heil received his PhD degree from the University of Maryland in 1990, after which he spent three years as an NSF postdoc at MIT. He joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1993, where he has taught calculus, linear algebra, real analysis, operator theory, and harmonic analysis. His research focuses on time-frequency analysis, wavelet theory, redundant representations, and other aspects of applied harmonic analysis.
Dr. Przemyslaw Bogacki, Old Dominion University
Przemyslaw Bogacki joined the faculty at Old Dominion University in 1990. He taught calculus, linear algebra, and numerical methods. He is actively involved in applications of technology in collegiate mathematics. His areas of research include computer aided geometric design and numerical solution of initial value problems for ordinary differential equations.
The speakers are also Pearson co-authors and published Thomas’ Calculus, 15th Edition.