We're doing it again 🥹
First class of the first day of school. What an incredible honor.
#LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.074/n #year5
First class of the first day of school. What an incredible honor.
#LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.074/n #year5
September 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
We're doing it again 🥹
First class of the first day of school. What an incredible honor.
#LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.074/n #year5
First class of the first day of school. What an incredible honor.
#LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.074/n #year5
And a color-coded Desmos graph for students to check the results of their calculations. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.122/n #year4
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
And a color-coded Desmos graph for students to check the results of their calculations. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.122/n #year4
E.G.B.C.D.L.G. (every good biologist can derive logistic growth) class today. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.137/n #year4
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
E.G.B.C.D.L.G. (every good biologist can derive logistic growth) class today. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.137/n #year4
First class (of college, ever, for 49 students this morning) in the books. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.090/n #year4
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
First class (of college, ever, for 49 students this morning) in the books. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.090/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
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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
Lecture 2 in the books! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus with linear models of temperature, fish reproduction, calorie consumption, and more! #figaday 4.095/n #year4
September 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Lecture 2 in the books! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus with linear models of temperature, fish reproduction, calorie consumption, and more! #figaday 4.095/n #year4
October 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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
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
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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
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
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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
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
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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
“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
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
“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
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
September 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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
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
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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
Lecture 3! With a little "figure scavenger hunt" matching biological examples to different mathematical functions. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.097/n #year4
October 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Lecture 3! With a little "figure scavenger hunt" matching biological examples to different mathematical functions. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 4.097/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
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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
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
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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
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
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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