Pete Kaslik

Pierce College Math Department

Contact Information

Office RAI 344 (Rainier Building, Fort Steilacoom Campus)
Office Phone (253) 964-6635
Office Hours

Monday - Friday 10:00-10:50 AM or by appointment

Pierce Email pkaslik@pierce.ctc.edu
Home Email pkaslik@mathhandyman.com
Spring 2013 Courses Announcements - Updated 6/6/2013
Math 146   8:00- 8:50
                9:00-9:50

 

Math 98    11:00-11:50 Wednesday, June 12  12-2  Final Exam
Phil 130 12:00 - 12:50   Tue and Thu  (RAI 235) Thursday, June 13 - Final Exam in Computer Lab RAI 262
   
Canvas Marty Lobdell, Study Less Study Smart

 

Summer 2013 Courses Announcements - Updated 6/11/2013
Math 146   7:40- 9:00 Text:  Interactive Statistics, Third Edition, Aliaga and Gunderson
Math 98    9:10-10:30 Text:  The Beginning and Intermediate Algebra text, by Tyler Wallace, is available in the bookstore for a reasonable price or available free with a link on the Math 98 page.  I do not teach directly out of the book or assign homework from it.  It is meant as an additional resource. 

If you are having a difficult time being successful in your classes, Pierce College offers numerous resources that can help you.  Click here for a list.

 

If you are taking a math class during Spring 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 at this link.

 

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.

 

Practice for the Compass Placement Test.

 

Resources

Google       Scholar     Public Data Pierce College Library Films on Demand
New Search Tools  Findthebest Math Department Homepage  course catalog
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Pierce College     2012-2013 Academic Calendar  
                        2013-2014 Academic Calendar
Current Time   Online Stopwatch The Tutoring Center (Fort Steilacoom)
School Closure Information Advising (Faculty Resources)
WAMAP Flash Cards

Complete Set of WAMAP Flash Cards

Washington Mathematics Assessment and Placement
Online Function Grapher

Desmos

Sustainable Math (MIASS)
Grading Guidelines

Passing Rates

Systems Thinking - Stella Home Page (ISEE Systems)    

Santa Fe Institute 

Pedagogy in Action System Dynamics Society

 

 

 

Sustainability

Sightline Institute - contemporary issues affecting our bioregion

The Rational Middle Series

The World's Biggest Problems

Berkley Earth - Climate Date

Dieoff - Various Issues

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

The Story of Stuff Project by Annie Leonard

Systems Thinking

EPA Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Large Facilities Map and Data

Developing Safe Bicycle Access to Pierce College:  Bikes Belong  and Alliance for Biking & Walking

Petroleum Issues

Culture Change - Issues about the ubiquity and depletion of petroleum

Energy Bulletin - Information about all energy sectors

Oil Production and Oil Consumption Data  Other

Open Source Textbooks and other resources

OERCommons.org

Community College Open Textbook Collaboration

Creative Commons License

Rent Textbooks at Chegg  (for example, Interactive Statistics rents for $28/quarter)

New and Used books at Textbook.org

Other Resources

Sustainability Resources and Data
Algebraic Patterns and Games
Favorite Graphs that reflect World Issue
Presentations

Yakima, May 2010

Faculty Lecture, October 27, 2010

Sustainability Summit - Story of the Month

Math 98

Math 60

Phil 130-131

Math 107