CFHE: ‘Yay, Math’
What is the connection between an instructor’s enthusiasm for the subject and student learning?
By James M. Lang
If you watched the first game of this year’s World Series, you joined millions of people around the world in observing a moment of silence for Colleen Ritzer, the high-school math teacher from Danvers, Mass., who was killed by a 14-year old student on the school grounds. You would have observed the same moment of silence at a variety of sporting events and ceremonies in Massachusetts in late October.