Math Ed Blog from Bruce Yoshiwara

A retired community college math professor

Thursday, July 23, 2020

In Favor of Adopting Open Textbooks

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Legislators, school administrators, and other policy makers have encouraged and/or mandated the use of open source textbooks to ease the fin...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Switching to Linux

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I’ve recently switched from Windows to Linux. The main impetus was that I’m trying to help Katherine Yoshiwara (my wife) code her math tex...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

PreTeXt: A Promising Tool for Open Source Textbooks

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Although I have been (and remain) largely unimpressed with the quality of the great majority existing open source math textbooks, I now beli...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Learning Styles and Optimizing Learning

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" Learning Styles: Concepts and evidence ,"  Psychological Science in the Public Interest , V. 9 No 3, December 2008, by Harold Pa...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

"Unjustified use of Algebra 2"

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The U.S. Department of Education organized a meeting (“California Math Convening: Gateways to Access – May 31, 2016”) to discuss California...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

Strategies to help developmental math students

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Nationally about 70% of incoming community college students are placed into developmental (a.k.a. “remedial” or “foundational”) math classe...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Perfect numbers

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"'I'll show you one more thing about perfect numbers," he said..."You can express them as the sum of consecutive nat...
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