PRIMUS
March 2008 Volume 18, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 2
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Blogs Hit Classroom: Students Start Reading
Meredith L. Greer & Benjamin Reed
A professor and student have a conversation about using blogs as part of a mathematics class. The goals of using a blog include giving students a motivation to read ahead in their textbooks,... More
pp. 139-148
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Teaching Modeling with Partial Differential Equations: Several Successful Approaches
Joseph Myers, David Trubatch & Brian Winkel
We discuss the introduction and teaching of partial differential equations (heat and wave equations) via modeling physical phenomena, using a new approach that encompasses constructing difference... More
pp. 161-182