Career Services is hosting several employers today so put on your best and hustle over and attend the job fair from 10 am to 2 pm in the Grand Ballroom. See
Job Fair
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
More Sad News
Ferrel Atkins long time coordinator of the Computational Mathematics program at EIU died this last week. Ferrel received his Bachelor of Science degree from EIU in 1945 and his doctorate from the University of Kentucky in 1950. He was an active and ardent member of the Democratic Party. Ferrel was also devoted to nature and worked each summer as Ranger Naturalist at Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado, where he became the Park Historian. Ferrel was 87 years young. See
Ferrel Atkins
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Woalf
Wolfram Alpha is a great tool for teachers and students.
1. it is free and available through any internet/web connection
2. it attempts to parse input rather than require computer language-like syntax
(this can be a + or a - but if you use Mathematica syntax you can usually get what you want).
Check it out at
woalf
Click on the ABOUT link for a tour of woalf
1. it is free and available through any internet/web connection
2. it attempts to parse input rather than require computer language-like syntax
(this can be a + or a - but if you use Mathematica syntax you can usually get what you want).
Check it out at
woalf
Click on the ABOUT link for a tour of woalf
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 16, 4:00 pm:
If This is Alpha – What is Beta?
Speakers: Peter Andrews, Patrick Coulton and Marshall Lassak
Old Main 2231
Over the centuries, tools such as slide rules, calculators, computer algebra systems and dynamic geometry software have provided new ways for us to make computations or view mathematical results. They have also forced us, at times, to think long and hard about how and what we teach. While it can address much more than computational or symbolic mathematics, Wolfram Alpha is another such tool. This is a web based technical answer/search engine accessible to everyone (and that includes students!) with an internet connection. Often the results from Alpha are superior to graphing calculators or computer algebra systems. Alpha is a computer algebra/calculus/statistics system and solves a variety of mathematical problems. It is relatively easy to use and has very good online help. We will demonstrate some of Alpha’s capabilities and hope to provoke a discussion of its usefulness and/or pitfalls for how our students might do their homework, how they can best learn mathematics, and how we might need to rethink our teaching and testing.
Old Main 2231
Over the centuries, tools such as slide rules, calculators, computer algebra systems and dynamic geometry software have provided new ways for us to make computations or view mathematical results. They have also forced us, at times, to think long and hard about how and what we teach. While it can address much more than computational or symbolic mathematics, Wolfram Alpha is another such tool. This is a web based technical answer/search engine accessible to everyone (and that includes students!) with an internet connection. Often the results from Alpha are superior to graphing calculators or computer algebra systems. Alpha is a computer algebra/calculus/statistics system and solves a variety of mathematical problems. It is relatively easy to use and has very good online help. We will demonstrate some of Alpha’s capabilities and hope to provoke a discussion of its usefulness and/or pitfalls for how our students might do their homework, how they can best learn mathematics, and how we might need to rethink our teaching and testing.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
College of Sciences Meeting
College of Sciences Faculty and Staff College Meeting to be held Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, from 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the Phipps Lecture Hall (Room 1205, Physical Science Building).
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