Joel Rosenfeld
Mathematics Graduate Student

University of Florida
Mathematics Department

358 Little Hall, PO Box 118105
Gainesville FL 32611-8105

Office: Little 443

Email: joelar@ufl.edu

Teaching

It is widely accepted that the best path to improved socioeconomic status and general self improvement is through education. It is the most important part of my job as a graduate student to help educate my students. Toward this goal I constantly look for new ways to present material and organize my curriculum. It is a perpetually evolving process.

Over the past few years I have taught and/or lead discussion classes for several courses, including:

• Liberal Arts Math
• College Algebra
• Precalculus
• Calculus 1
• Calculus 2

Occationally I will create additional material for the course. For my Calculus 2 course in the Spring 2011 semester, I wrote two articles for extra reading. One article discusses how to derive the Taylor expansion for sine and cosine via the differential equation f'' = -f. I also made an article discussing generating functions.

For links discussing the philosophy of education and teaching techniques, please refer to the links portion of this website.