Pete Kaslik

Pierce College Math Department

Contact Information

Office C348 (Cascade Building, Fort Steilacoom Campus)
Office Phone (253) 964-6635
Office Hours Monday - Thursday 7:15-7:30 AM and

Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-11:15

Pierce Email pkaslik@pierce.ctc.edu
Home Email pkaslik@mathhandyman.com

 

Summer 2009 Courses Announcements - Updated 7/2/2009
Math& 146

Project Proposals Tuesday, July 7

Math& 107

Exam on Chapters 1 and 2 on Wednesday, July 8 or Thursday, July 9

 

If you are taking a math class during summer quarter and are in need of financial assistance for the purchase of your math book, you are invited to apply for the Peter Hartman Math Book Fund scholarship. The application is available here.

 

Email:  All Pierce College students have been given an email account.  Grades reports will occasionally be sent to this account.  If you haven't been using your Pierce email, you will need to access it to have emails from this account forwarded to the address you normally use.  Information is available on the Pierce College website.

 

Resources

Google Washington Mathematics Assessment and Placement
Google Scholar Math Department Homepage  course catalog
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Pierce College
Current Time   Online Stopwatch The Tutoring Center (Fort Steilacoom)
School Closure Information Advising (Faculty Resources)

 

 

 

Interests

Significant non-mathematical problems that require mathematics
Algebraic Patterns and Games
Why Learn Math graphics
QAW May 8, 2009

Sustainability

Sightline Institute - contemporary issues affecting our bioregion

Dieoff - all the scary issues of our current world in one website

Chris Jordan Photographs - These will give you a different perspective

The North Pacific Plastic Garbage Patch - Motivation to avoid the use of plastic

Housing and Transportation Affordability Index (Brookings Institution)

Pierce County Bike Map

A world without poverty - Microfinance

Petroleum Issues

Culture Change - Issues about the ubiquity and depletion of petroleum

Life after the Crash

Energy Bulletin - Information about all energy sectors

Open Source Textbooks

Creative Commons License

Rent Textbooks at Chegg  (for example, Interactive Statistics rents for $18/quarter)