Supporting Transition to Proof Courses with Calculus Context

By Audrey Malagon Moving from the calculus sequence to abstract mathematics can be challenging for students. The ASPIRE team seeks to build on students’ previous experiences in calculus with intentionally designed, inquiry-oriented materials that support students as they transition to upper level mathematics. In this post, Dr. Tenchita Alzaga Elizondo, Research Associate at Portland State...

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Are You Lit Up or Burned Out?

By Sarah Bryant The folks on the Living Proof editorial board are engaging and lovely people, and I am proud to be involved with this blog since it is a project that gives insights into the journeys of mathematicians. And yet, I have been avoiding writing this essay for Living Proof. With help from the...

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Communication in Graduate School

By Alex Luna Alex Luna After about two and a half years of graduate school, my perspective about many things has changed. The way that I interpret studying and general learning is one example, but an unexpected item is communication. Professional interaction is an area that I put a lot of thought into, as it...

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Testimonios: Dr. Angel Ramón Pineda Fortín

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the...

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Interview with Undergraduate Stephen Lasinis on Getting Started with LaTeX

By Pamela E. Harris @DPEHarris and Stephen Lasinis Pamela E. Harris In this blog, we learn more about Stephen Lasinis’s experience in learning how to use LaTeX. His advice is one for students to keep in mind as they too begin to learn the basics and grow to develop a mastery of how to typeset...

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Might May Not Always Make Right; but it Often Wins

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org The front cover of the 1989 book by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy in which they provide a resolution of the classical Greek “Liar Paradox”. See the article for details. The interest and debate started by the release into the wilds of the Large Language Model ChatGPT (the GPT stands for...

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Preparation for Calculus: A Research Agenda

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and former Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Just Equations has just published their latest report: Staying the Course: Examining College Students’ Paths to Calculus, authored by Marcelo Almora Rios and Pamela Burdman. It illuminates the difficulties of...

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Moving within Academia: An interview with Pamela E. Harris

By Shanise Walker Shanise Walker Pamela E. Harris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Recently, Harris took a leave of absence from her position as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Faculty Fellow of the Davis Center and the Office of...

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What is Math? Why Do I Care What You Think?

By Yevgeniya Rivers @UNHMathZone @UNewHavenMathZone Yevgeniya Rivers Some years ago, at a one-on-one meeting with my previous department chair, I was asked "what is math?" My first reaction was not to answer the question but to wonder why I was being asked in the first place. I produced some word vomit to the effect of...

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BAMM! – A Pathway to the PhD

By: Jana Talley, Co-Editor of DUE Point, Jackson State University 2022 BAMMFest with the 1st and 2nd cohort of participants The BAMM! program, Bolstering the Advancement of Master’s in Mathematics to Prepare for Doctoral Mathematics Programs, is a collaborative S-STEM grant between three California State University (CSU) campuses:  Fresno State, Cal Poly Pomona, and San...

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