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Contact Info
 | Eric Hsu / Associate Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University / Thornton Hall 932 1600 Holloway Avenue / San Francisco, CA 94132 erichsu@math.sfsu.edu / 510-288-8438 |
Fall 2009 Classes
I’m not teaching any classes until Spring 2010, but e-mail me if you want to meet.
Current Grants
- Online and Live Communities of Teachers (NSF CAREER Award, 2004-2010)
- PRIME (California Math Science Partnership, 2008-2010)
Past Grants
- REvitalizing ALgebra (NSF Math Science Partnership, 2003-2009)
- Transforming Calculus (CSU Transforming Coursework Grant, 2008)
Graduate TA Resources
- 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)
- Math Education Job Search Resources
- Getting a Math Education Job in a Mathematics Department
- Calculus I With Group Work, Fall 2008
Some Papers
- Hsu, E., Kysh, J., Ramage, K., & Resek, D. (2009). Helping Teachers Un-structure: A Promising Approach. The Montana Math Enthusiast, 6 (3).
- Hsu, E., Murphy, T. J., and Treisman, U. (2008). Supporting High Minority Achievement in Introductory Collegiate Mathematics Courses: What We Have Learned from 30 Years of the Emerging Scholars Program. In M. Carlson and C. Rasmussen (Eds.), Making the Connection: Research and Practice in Undergraduate Mathematics Education: Mathematical Association of America.
- Hsu, E., Kysh, J., Ramage, K., and Resek, D. (2007). Seeking Big Ideas in Algebra: The Evolution of a Task. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 10(4--6), 325--332.
- Hsu, E., Kysh, J., and Resek, D. (2007). Differentiated Instruction Through Rich Problems. New England Mathematics Journal, 39, 6--13.
- Carlson, M., Jacobs, S., Coe, T., Larsen, S. and Hsu, E. (2002). Applying Covariational Reasoning While Modeling Dynamic Events: A Framework and a Study. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. Vol. 33, No. 5, 352â378.
Some Talk Notes and Slides
- Analyzing and Sharing Rich Groupworthy Problems (Talk/Focus Group at Asilomar 2007)
- Teaching Calculus with Group Work (Talk/Focus Group at Asilomar 2003)
- Virtual Resources for Teachers (slides from CAMT 2000)
- Undergraduate Calculus Metaphors (slides from ARUME 2000)
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Some Software
- Better File Cabinet, open-source wiki-database software
- 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.