Peter Keep

A personal website.
I've been a math professor since 2013. Throughout that time, I've taught a mixture of mathematics and statistics classes. If you find me on campus, then I'm likely making tea in my office or hanging out with students in one of our classrooms. If you find me at home, then I'm likely playing games with my kids, watching basketball, or playing video games.

  • Two Fun Infinite Series

     By Peter Keep

    Posted on January 21, 2026

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    I love teaching Calculus II. It hits the perfect sweet-spot of “has really cool mathematics” and “always available to teach,” since we run multiple sections of it every semester and, apparently, nobody else in my department really likes teaching it that much. Weird. Anyways, it’s my favorite class to teach. [Read More]
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  • Organizing my Syllabus

    Using PreTeXt and GitHub to make the clickiest part of the semester less annoying.

    By Peter Keep

    Posted on January 14, 2026

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    The week before a semester starts is the worst. There are mandatory meetings about “important issues” that have absolutely nothing to do with me and my job. There are meetings about stressful things that have lots to do with me and my job. There are emails and enrollment numbers and course preparation and crises. And the part that I put off the most are the “clicky” things. [Read More]
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  • OER as Resistance

     By Peter Keep

    Posted on January 7, 2026

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    This summer, I presented at an Open Educational Resources conference in my state about a project I’ve been working on: an open source, open copyright textbook for the typical single variable calculus sequence (Calculus I and Calculus II). This post isn’t about my project. It’s about what happened at that conference. [Read More]
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