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Brendan W. Sullivan
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  • Graduate: Doctor of Arts (D.A.) in Mathematical Sciences, May 2013 from Carnegie Mellon University. Advised by John Mackey and Jack Schaeffer. My thesis was a textbook for an "Introduction to Proofs" course.
  • Undergraduate: Hamilton College, B.A. in Mathematics & Physics.

Now an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Emmanuel College in Boston. Teaching a 3/3 load and doing research on Cops & Robbers on graphs. Recent publication with undergraduate collaborators featured in the College Mathematics Journal: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.48.5.322

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Whence the "everything is linear" phenomenon, and what can we do about it?
Mar 27, 2014
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What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Apr 21, 2014
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Teaching undergraduates who expect a high-school-like learning environment
Dec 22, 2017
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How can I teach my students the difference between a sequence and a series?
Mar 27, 2014
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Are there any benefits to having an entire course's homework problems available from day one?
Jun 25, 2014
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How can we help students learn to write about their mathematics?
Mar 17, 2014
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Inability to work with an arbitrary mathematical object
Feb 13, 2018
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How to teach logical implication?
Mar 17, 2014
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Impressive examples where a "proof by picture" goes wrong
Mar 20, 2014
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Students use WolframAlpha. Can we change calculus instruction to exploit it while discouraging 'cheating'?
Mar 19, 2014
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10th Anniversary of Math Educators SE!
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On Strange Attractive Titles
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Short papers for undergraduate course on reading scholarly math
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Collection of surprising identities and equations.
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Is Conway's "Look and Say Sequence" strictly increasing?
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Why is predicate "all" as in all(SET) true if the SET is empty?
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