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Professor Balcomb taught for 10 years at Philips Exeter Academy in New
Hampshire prior to joining the Saint Joseph's faculty. His courses include
Precalculus, Calculus I, Contemporary Math and Elementary Statistics.
Professor Balcomb and his wife own a small farm. Every year, he hires
two or three Saint Joseph's students to work on the farm, which has one
milk cow and 35 beef animals. His nonmathematical academic interest is
music, particularly classical, and he enjoys playing the piano.
Why
last math course of your life could be the best
Dave Pinchbeck and Scott Balcomb redo of the math course for liberal arts
majors embraces great concepts in math and effective problem solving,
rather than memorization of formulas.
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