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Currently Instructor at Elgin Community College in Elgin, IL.

Previously Assistant Professor at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, IL.

Previously taught large-lecture calculus classes and did some database work with student data at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Lots of other math and database background.

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Should we avoid indefinite integrals?
May 18, 2014
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Optimization problems that today's students might actually encounter?
Apr 11, 2014
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Optimization problems that today's students might actually encounter?
Apr 11, 2014
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Encouraging class participation
Mar 13, 2014
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How can we help students learn how to read their textbook?
May 5, 2014
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"But I copied that from a book-reference you gave! How can that be wrong?", or how can you grade homework which is solved poorly in some book?
Apr 7, 2014
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Math topics that reward going beyond cookbook methods
Jan 23, 2018
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Why do we teach the Rational Root Theorem? (high school algebra 2)
Feb 23, 2021
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Why don't all teachers use clickers?
Apr 23, 2014
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What to do with students who think they "already know it," but actually don't?
May 1, 2014
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How to select SQL results based on multiple tables
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What should you do when asked by the chair to raise course grade distribution when the students do not deserve it?
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How can a group of Warlocks create and distribute magical wanted posters?
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MySQL GROUP BY DateTime +/- 3 seconds
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What theorem of Liouville's is Gian-Carlo Rota referring to here?