Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for being so receptive to the material I presented. It was a very enjoyable experience for me.

Below you will find links to both the Power Point presentation, and transparencies from the talk.  There are a few extra transparencies in the transparency files.

Here is one of my YouTube videos that shows another problem from Baghdad that works very nicely in the chapter on roots and radicals:

You can email me at any time at  pat@mckeague.com.

I hope you will try some of this material in your classes, and that you give yourself permission to use five minutes of any class period for whatever you find interesting in, and around, mathematics.

Thanks again for attending my talk

Pat McKeague

Links to Transparencies and Notes

Power Point: What a Difference Five Minutes can Make

Transparencies: Islam, Mathematics, and Culture across the Curriculum Transparencies.

Transparencies: Inviting Students to Join Our Profession

Links to Other Sites

Keith Devlin Article on Fibonacci

Wikipedia Article on Islamic Mathematics 

Another Article on Fibonacci

Postage Stamps of Mathematicians This page contains postage stamps involving mathematics.  You will find many things here that you can use in class.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary  This is the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.  If you have on-line access in your classroom, this is a good place to go to look up definitions during class.  For example, look up the definition for scientific notation.  I think you will like it.