Teaching Interests

My current teaching passion. I am in charge of calculus reform in the mathematics department. Our reform involves changes in the homework, TA section, lecture section and text. Extensive course websites are available at

Math 124(Calculus I)
Math 125(Calculus II)

Our reform also involves bringing a small number of community college faculty to the department during their sabbatical leave. The three Community College Educator Sabbatical Fellows for 2001-2002 were Dale Hoffman, Marina Frost and Ted Coskey; here is their photo (along with me):

My long term passion. Beginning in the early 1990's, continuing through the decade, my teaching interest focused on our Freshman level precalculus sequence. The 2002-03 academic year will mark the 8th year my precalculus text (now co-authored with Dave Prince) has been used at the UW. Just prior to teaching our precalculus course for the first time, my colleague Don Marshall "overhauled" the course, focusing on a problem solving format. My text is very unique in that it holds problem solving as the central theme. You can link to basic information about the text and course by clicking here.

My incredible FIG teaching experience (Autumn 1995) I was involved in the UWIRED Science FIG #60, Autumn 199; here is the FIG:

You can read about us as well here.

NCTM. I've had the chance to work with a super cool High School teacher from Colorado, Marilyn Stor, with whom I have written a paper based on a series of problems from my precalculus text. Here is a nice shot of Marilyn:

Here are a couple NCTM related things we have produced together:

Precalculus and Calculus in High Schools Project I am working with five Washington State High School teachers who will be teaching mathematics courses for which students will receive UW credit.
Recognition is cool too! I was fortunate to receive one of five Seattle campus University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Awards for the 1998-99 academic year. You can read about me by clicking here. Plus, here. is a chance to see me with a jacket and tie! The alumni magazine also wrote and article, but they did not spell my name correctly; they did correct that on the web version.