4 papers
High-structure and its impact on performance gaps in large-enrollment frosh courses
Pedro Morales-Almazan, Hanjue Pan, Jasmine Tom
We introduce the concept of structure-regions and their impact on student experience in large-enrollment frosh courses. These regions involve three major components: active learnin…
Improv practices in Mathematics Active Teaching
Pedro Morales-Almazan
This article explores the parallels between improvisational theater (Improv) and teaching in an Active Learning environment. It presents the notions of Active Teaching as a natural…
A geometrical approach to measure irrationality
Pedro Morales-Almazan
We present a geometric way of describing the irrationality of a number using the area of a circular sector . We establish a connection between this and the continued fraction…
Zeta function for perturbed surfaces of revolution
Pedro Morales-Almazan
In this paper we explore the Zeta function arising from a small perturbation on a surface of revolution and the effect of this on the functional determinant and in the change of th…