Guest post by Anton Mosunov, Math Undergraduate Group (amosunov@uwaterloo.ca)

In this blog post, I will tell you about some exciting work done by our working group at the Aug 7-12 Okanagan BIRS Workshop Teaching First-year University Mathematics Courses: Past, Present, and Future. Together with Lauren DeDieu, Chunlei Ge, Spectrum Han, Asia Matthews, Vilma Mesa, Anton Mosunov and Yas Yamin, I explored what virtues, knowledge, and skills a university mathematics instructor will need in 2030 to...

Guest post by Brian Ingalls, Applied Mathematics (bingalls@uwaterloo.ca)

Indigenous Science was in the news last month. The Globe and Mail reported on the Ford government’s decision to remove Indigenous Science content from the elementary school curriculum. This move was criticized by those who view the weaving of Indigenous knowledge systems into mainstream education as key to Canada’s reconciliation efforts (e.g. the ...

Over the next few months, this blog will feature some guest posts from UW Math faculty members who attended teaching conferences to share what they learned.

I encourage all faculty, regardless of rank, to make use of our Teaching Development Fund for professional development activities. You can find a list of potential conferences with dates, locations, and conference websites here, and apply for funding using this very...

Here are some resources for instructors looking to adapt their Winter 2022 courses to be online until Jan 24 (and robust in terms of when we actually do return to in-person.)

Course delivery in first three weeks:

• In Math you *are* allowed to have synchronous lectures at the scheduled class times
• For live meetings, use interactive tools (ask questions for students to answer in chat, use polls, Kahoot, etc) to engage students. If all you are doing is lecturing with no interaction, it might as well be a video.
• If available, could...