| Quote | My thoughts and feelings on this class? I enjoyed this class thoroughly. I didn't mind getting up early three days a week to come here. That is because for the first time in four years I didn't feel threatened, but rather embraced by mathematics. | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | There have been so many things that this course has changed in my mind. Compared to all of my other math classes I have ever taken, this course has actually felt beneficial. Not only did I learn more about actual math functions, I learned to ask why and h | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | Math Explorations was meant to be a Liberal Arts requirement because it is a thinking course that helps a person expand their thinking...One of the greatest things about going to college is that you learn to look at things from a different perspective and | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | This course in general has been a complete paradigm shift. It has absolutely blown my mind and I am sure that it has blown the minds of other students as well. Most students never get the chance to actually understand the world of mathematics - they are j | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | You know something that I find strange? Sometimes I actually feel kind of smart mathematically. I'm not used to being able to comprehend or even work out problems in mathematics, and since this course, this new and strange phenomena has occurred. | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | Opening up the spectrum of math is how this course cleared up the misconception that math is simply computations and solving equations... Math became a wider subject in this course. | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | It's nice to have a class in a relaxed area/environment for a change. Being treated like a person and not an inferior 'student.' | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | This material was helpful in creating an alternative to lecture-dominated classes. I used some of these materials and modified some of them to fit my own purposes in the course. They also helped me by providing a structure which I mimicked in creating my | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | The general approach is amazing. I love how you get to touch upon and substantially develop so much modern analysis, in this unassuming volume for liberal arts students. I also found the way you introduced the concepts very well thought-out.…The one g | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | Your materials demand more active involvement on the part of the students. No “correct” answers or interpretations are given for much of it. This forces the students to make sense of it, come up with their own meaning and communicate with classmates | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | I like the wide variety of topics, and equally diverse examples that illustrate what mathematicians find so appealing in numbers, patterns, and space. The text and exercises make connections between theory and applications (e.g. primes, congruences, and | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | I have reviewed several of Professor Fleron’s manuscripts, and I must say that they are quite fun to read. I can imagine using them for some of my mathematical outreach activities. The samples he has produced are a very good indication of his commitme | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | I am deeply impressed by the work you have done, both in its quality and in the sheer magnitude of the project.…[Discovering the Art of Mathematics – Geometry] is a fresh approach to geometry for undergraduates who are not mathematics majors. The choi | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | For me, the main purpose of a course in mathematics in the liberal arts (an MLA course) is to get the students in it to use their heads… MLA courses give them other benefits as well—widening their cultural horizons, improving their writing, and so o | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | The structure of the packets [chapters] and the variety of exercises was very good. The structure lent itself to a class in which students take primary responsibility and engage in the mathematical process. As this was a primary goal for me, the packets | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
| Quote | Discovering the Art of Number Theory is delightful… When I was teaching an MLA courses here at Penn State… I never found a text that was close to what I needed. Prof. Fleron’s text fits the bill… [And] what is so nice is the fact that this is ver | vecke | 0 | 11 years 5 months ago |
