Last updated May, 2008
Greetings! I have the good fortune to teach mathematics at Keene State College. As an associate professor at Keene State, I stay very active teaching and working in service to the college. As time permits, I stay professionally active as well. When not working, there are a number of personal activities that keep me happily engaged.
A quote that resonates with me:
"Doing mathematics is very much like running a marathon. It does not require any special talent, and 'finishing' is largely a matter of wanting to succeed." Keith Devlin , The Math Gene , 1999.
For the Fall semester of 2008, I am teaching:
MATH241 Probability and Statistics I ·
MATH310 History of Mathematics
MATH361 Differential Equations
The details of the courses can be found on can be found on Blackboard .
My office hours and teaching schedule for this semester are posted here .
A bit of philosophy relevant for students in my courses:
Tell me and I'll forget; Show me and I may not remember;
Involve me and I'll understand. -- Confucius
A little math history for today .
I am currently Chair of KSC's Promotion and Tenure Task Force, a member of the ISPC Assessment Subcommittee, and a member of the Faculty Evaluation Advisory Committed for 2008/2009.
I participated in the Institute for Mathematics History and Its Use in Teaching (IMHT), a two-year sequence of two-week workshops sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Mathematics Association of America held at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A goal of IMHT was to develop methods for incorporating the history of mathematics into mathematics instruction at all levels, with the intent of enhancing student learning. A colleague, Amy Shell-Gellasch, from IMHT and I edited a volume published in the MAA Notes series that is a collection of resources for the use of mathematics professors interested in using the relatively recent history of mathematics to enhance student learning. The book was published in 2006 by the MAA.
I have been a member of the MAA since 1983, and served as a member of the MAA Committee on Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics and the sub-committee on the Use of History in Teaching Mathematics. Additionally, I was a workshop leader with the SAUM project and a case-study editor for the 2006 MAA publication on assessment of undergraduate mathematics programs.
My family and I are enjoying life in Keene. In my spare time, I spend as much time with my family as I can, I struggle to learn to play the guitar (a huge Neil Young fan...), and I run the roads and trails of New Hampshire, just to relax and for the pure enjoyment of running (although I occasionally do that run from Hopkinton to Boston… ).
I am trying to learn as much as I can about Clarence DeMar , particularly about his time spent in New Hampshire. Please send me a note if you have any information about Mr. DeMar!
Finishing the Boston Marathon in 1998, and banging on my guitar at a cottage on a lake in Sunapee, NH.
My wife Deb and I at the Green Gables House on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the summer of 2006. 
The Northern Presidentials of the White Mountains, as seen while hiking with my sons Adam and Matt in the summer of 2006.
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