Today's lecture

Color-coded whiteboard

Start, middle, and end.

Almost two years ago, crying and dreaming of a better world.

“Siri, play ‘Luther’.” 😭 Impossible to express everything that dreaming of, fighting for, and building #NewCalculus has meant to me--my anchor point amidst the tumult and pain of the last two years. So I’ll let Kendrick say it for me. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.168/n #year4

Second-to-last lecture, and I felt like everyone was dialed in. Lots of cat and cake analogies because, you know, cats and cake are great. Obligatory Murphy tax included. #figaday 4.166/n #year4 #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus

When I was teaching the prep course for New Calculus, I finally figured out why the second derivative works the way it does. Hopefully the students had a glimpse of that today too. #figaday 4.142/n #year4 #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus

Hi friends! I'm looking for simple bio-calculus maximization/minimization problems to give our students some practice taking 1st and 2nd derivatives. Any great, single-equation examples come to mind? Thanks! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus

E.G.B.C.D.L.G. (every good biologist can derive logistic growth) class today. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.137/n #year4

If your answer to yesterday's question looked something like this, congratulations, you'd have answered one of the questions on our students' midterm correctly! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.127/n #year4

Imagine you have a bacterial infection, then go to the doctor to receive treatment. If this graph shows the dynamics of the bacterial population, B, what does a graph of the *change* in bacterial abundance (B') look like? #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.126/n #year4

And a color-coded Desmos graph for students to check the results of their calculations. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.122/n #year4

Grabbing the actual raw data from Ho et al. 1995 for our New Calculus students to build their own models of HIV dynamics. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.121/n #year4

Another day of teaching. Realizing that maybe I should record videos that get students up to speed on past topics (e.g., logarithms) so that we can get to the calculus (e.g., deriving the exponential growth equation) sooner. #figaday 4.116/n #year4 #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus

Everyone more or less survived it. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.111/n #year4

Learned about Desmos from our #wundergrads and now I'm building new-calculus lab materials in it? Hopefully this will be part of a successful bridge from manual calculations --> Google Sheets --> visualizing in Desmos --> coding in R! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.106/n #year4

Lecture 3! With a little "figure scavenger hunt" matching biological examples to different mathematical functions. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.097/n #year4

Lecture 2 in the books! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus with linear models of temperature, fish reproduction, calorie consumption, and more! #figaday 4.095/n #year4

I hope that I never lose sight of what a privilege it is to have this job and teach this class. Really anchoring in to my mantra of #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus amidst some hard stuff the last couple days. #figaday 4.094/n #year4

First class (of college, ever, for 49 students this morning) in the books. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.090/n #year4

We're really getting ready to do the thing 😭. Sometimes I can't believe what an immense privilege and honor this #unicornjob🦄 really is. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.083/n #year4