Introduction to the Portfolio

Executive Summary
Read this first
(it tells you how to use this portfolio)

• History of Course
• Description of Students
• Desired Outcomes
• Overview of Course

Artifacts

Snapshots of the Course

• Artifact 1 - The first two homeworks: Setting the stage.
• Artifact 2 - Research Projects: The game plan.
• Artifact 3 - The Midterm: A halfway point.
• Artifact 4 - The day the teacher hid in the corner.
• Artifact 5 - Homework on Algebraic Numbers.
• Artifact 6 - A group that didn't work: The failure.
• Artifact 7 - A student's journey to mathematics.
• Artifact 8 - Dedekind Cuts: The Crescendo.
• Artifact 9 - The Student Project Papers.
• Artifact 10 - The final.

Reflections

• Changes in the course wrought by the projects.
• A surprising development on student conversations.
• Reflections on the course and running it again.
• Concluding remarks.

Appendices

• Text for course (still unfinished, large pdf file)
• Assignments
• Refer ences