Eric Hsu Work Page

Contact Info

Eric Hsu / Professor and Chair, Mathematics Department Director, Center for Science and Math Education San Francisco State University / Science 211 1600 Holloway Avenue / San Francisco, CA 94132 erichsu@sfsu.edu

Meeting With Me

• For advising and coursework evaluation, if your last name begins with A through K, please contact Prof. Judy Kysh <jkysh@sfsu.edu>. In any case, read the appropriate link below.
• For official advising, read Advising for Math Teaching Concentration and then schedule a meeting with me below.
• For info on how to become a teacher in California, also go to Advising for Math Teaching Concentration. If you have a BA already, pay special attention to the end.
• For coursework evaluation for the math single-subject waiver program, read instructions at Coursework Evaluation.
• Reference letters require a bit of paperwork at Letters of Recommendation.
   
• Schedule a live or phone/skype meeting with me using an online booking site
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Teaching

• My Classes. Includes all past classes. 

Current Grants

• 7/1/2020-6/30/2022. PI. "Bay Area Math Collaborative (BAM-C)". CA Education Learning Lab. ($17K / 2y)

• 6/1/2019-5/31/2024. co-PI, STAJES. NSF Noyce Track 1 #1852881. ($945,843 / 5y)

• 10/1/2018-9/30/2021. co-PI, "CS4SF: A Scalable Model for Preparing and Supporting High School Teachers in Rigorous, Inclusive Computer Science Instruction", NSF CS4ALL. ($389,996 / 3y + $77,997 supplement)

• 5/2018-4/2021. co-PI, “Western Regional Noyce Alliance”, NSF DUE-1745263 ($3.3M/5y)

• Past grants are listed on my Curriculum Vitae.

Curriculum Vitae

• My Curriculum Vitae. Lists:
  • all past grant funded projects, with links to more information
  • publications, many with PDF links
  • presentations, some with linked talk notes
  • list of supervised theses and expository papers 
  • service activities

Supplemental Instruction and Graduate TA Resources

• Basic Information for Propective Supplemental Instruction Instructors
• Remedial Algebra GTA Resource Site (official syllabuses, teaching notes, activities and tests, Frequently Asked Questions)
• Hypertext UC Berkeley PDP TA Handbook (Treisman Workshops)
• Official Guidelines for Fourth-Hour GTA Responsibilities

Math Education Resources

• The Better File Cabinet (math ed papers and calculus problems)
• Treisman Intensive Workshop Resources (Worksheets and TA Handbook)
   
• An Outsider Guide to Helping Math Faculty, 2017 discussion with CSU Faculty Development Council 
• Designing Powerful Calculus Lessons, workshops at Santa Clara University (2017), Cal State Maritime (2018).
• Teaching With Group Work On Large Surfaces, Joint Math Meetings 2017 Talk. 
• Calculus I With Group Work, Fall 2008 (Materials, worksheets, teaching outline)
   
• Math Education Job Search Resources
• Getting a Math Education Job in a Mathematics Department
   
• Math Major Percentages By Institution
• List of U.S. Doctoral Programs in Math Education (with RUME programs marked)
   
• California Subject Matter Requirements Changes for Common Core (DOCX, updated Nov 5, 2013)
• Katie Waddle's GRE Prep Resources

Some Software and Web Sites I've Written

• Auto-Acronym. Automatic generation of acronyms from source text.
• Better File Cabinet, open-source wiki-database software. This page runs on BFC.
• LaTeX Tidy, open-source Perl hack to clean up LaTeX files
• TextMate, a great Mac OS X text editor with special features for special text (e.g. programming languages). I wrote the initial Perl and LaTeX bundles, along with various other utilities.
• Reading Old Microsoft Word 5 Files in Mac OS X. I'm so proud to have figured it out, I had to record the details. 
• Unwritten Rules, an attempt to collate all those unwritten rules of various sports and activities.

Erdos-Bacon Number

Every now and then someone asks what my Erdos number is, and more rarely, what my Bacon number is. You can decide for yourself if my numbers are well-defined, as I use math education papers to calculate Erdos number and TV to calculate Bacon number. (Calculations done May 2010.)

My Erdos Number is 4: I coauthored with Diane Resek. / Diane Resek coauthored with Léon Henkin MR0366659 (51 #2906) /  Léon Henkin coauthored with Alfred Tarski MR0124250 (23 #A1564) / Alfred Tarski coauthored with Paul Erdös1 MR0008249 (4,269b). 

My Bacon Number is 3: When I was in the 7th grade, I was a regular member of a large kid panel on a TV show called Livewire hosted by Fred Newman. Fred Newman (I) was in Men in Black (1997) with Steve Rankin. Steve Rankin was in Trapped (2002) with Kevin Bacon.