Resources for Instructors

Revised Spring 2025

Polls and Forms

• Plickers: Get Plickers Do you like to include polls or quizzes in class? If you want to be able to poll students without requiring them to use a smart device, try Plickers (“Paper Clickers”). You can set it up so that students can use an app to take the poll/quiz, but the beauty is that each student can use a paper QR code to respond. No gadgets necessary!
• Google Forms:
  • Mathematical Autobiography: I use this to get to know students early in the semester. You can see one here to see the questions I use (and fill it out if you feel inspired!).

Course Materials

• Linear Algebra: I teach linear algebra as an intro-to-proofs course, and over the years I’ve created some materials to use alongside different books.

  • Logic textbooklet: Logic for Linear Algebraists: 150 minutes of logic for proof writing. This is the first “stable” version, but I will continue to add materials to it over time. You can also fork it on github: github.com/crgibbons/LogicForLinearAlgebra
  • Standards: (coming soon!)

• Modern Algebra: For the first semester of abstract algebra, I use Galois Theory (a very light touch version!) as a motivating story to introduce rings, fields, and groups (in roughly that order).

  • Textbook (in progress): (link coming soon!)
  • Animations: (links coming soon!)
  • 2020-2022 Covid Era Videos, badly organized on YouTube: (links coming soon)

• Math in Social Context:

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• Applied Math Sampler with a focus on Social, Structural, and Institutional Hierarchies

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Mathematical Writing Guides

Many of my courses are considered Writing Intensive, which means there is an emphasis on writing instruction.

(links eventually)