Sarah Mayes-TangBuilding your mathematical understanding: the “newcomer” approachTo understand a math concept, write about it for for another type of mathematician: someone new to the subjectMar 22, 2022Mar 22, 2022
Sarah Mayes-TangA Mathematician & Her PainI’ve been thinking lately about how my experience as a woman in pain intersects with my experience as a mathematician.Sep 16, 2021Sep 16, 2021
Sarah Mayes-TangDoubts about Online Course Design & Teaching ToolboxesMore on Planning for teaching Extra-Large Classes onlineAug 11, 2020Aug 11, 2020
Sarah Mayes-Tang4 Assessments for the Online Extra-Large ClassThis is the third post where I’m writing some thoughts that I have about the process of converting a 1000+ student class from an in-person…Jul 24, 20201Jul 24, 20201
Sarah Mayes-Tang2 Key Course Design Strategies for Extra-Large Online ClassesThis summer I am planning an online delivery of the calculus course that I coordinate. It involves thousands of students in total and…Jun 23, 2020Jun 23, 2020
Sarah Mayes-TangTeaching Extra-Large Classes Online: 5 Principles I’m FollowingI, like many other educators, have been handed a big task for the summer: prepare to deliver your classes online. My reading on the topic…Jun 21, 2020Jun 21, 2020
Sarah Mayes-TangWill making math more collaborative solve “the woman problem”?No. And it might make the problem worse.Jun 12, 2020Jun 12, 2020
Sarah Mayes-TangHe saw, and he listened: 3 lessons I hope my doctors take from my first doctorMy childhood family doctor, Dr. Evans, passed away last week. Our family would not be the same — and perhaps not even complete — without…May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Sarah Mayes-TangDesigning a University Math Unit in Real-Time: Intended vs.This week I began teaching the first lessons in our differential equations unit, which I’m focusing on disease modelling and the…Feb 13, 20201Feb 13, 20201
Sarah Mayes-TangDesigning a University Math Unit In Real Time, part 3: Crafting the first lessonsIn the first 2 parts of this series I wrote about the motivation for this project and the in-class learning goals. Today I am summarizing…Feb 5, 2020Feb 5, 2020
