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January 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

nancy oliver showed rebecca zook the way back in ninth grade. now she’s paying it forward.

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Rebecca Zook

January 22, 2010 at 11:38 pm

Thanks for posting about what I wrote!

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vlorbik

January 24, 2010 at 1:22 am

thanks for coming by.
and thanks for the post.

my own most-inspiring-math-teacher
was by golly a woman too:
mary ann di baggio. 6th grade.

then maria wonenberger twice in
undergrad. i always think
of the great emmy noether.
MW was my first teacher of
my favorite subject of all time:
abstract algebra. she was
a pretty ordinary big-room
freshman-calc lecturer but
that’s called “being a pro”
i guess. with teacher-trainees
and frightened undergrads
in small groups she was great.

another calc teacher, marjorie
mc cracken was a much better
“big room” presenter but i
had no personal interactions
with her that i can remember.

the AI (“associate instructor”)
for my “section” of that class
was teresa tsang and she was
very helpful to me and my
classmates in that crucial
freshman year.

then marlies gerber in grad school
for differential geometry.
a fine teacher and an inspiring
member of her department.

i think that’s it.
(my transcripts were online at one point
but that’s long gone now and i’ll probably
never do it again. no use hunting up
hardcopies for a digression that already
approaches ridiculous length.)

math needs women!

@rebecca again:
i’ll go ahead and say here that your pages
impressed me quite a bit at first glance.
i’ll probably be tutoring online within
a couple quarters now (if the net and i
are still standing); seeing a one-person
show like yours looks to be just the kind
of no-hype how-it-really-works i’ve been
waiting for. i’ll sure be back.

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vlorbik

January 24, 2010 at 12:49 pm

rz on handwriting.

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