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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Testimonios: Dr. José A. Perea

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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Academia, will you not be my Valentine?

By Jasmine Camero (she/her) Jasmine Camero Since I could remember, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with academia. Oddly enough, it was the source of most of my stress even as early as elementary school - which is not at all healthy. As I progressed, I did not learn to navigate this stress, but I learned...

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Creating a Vibrant Department – (Re)learning Lessons from the Past

By Dave Kung, Director of Policy @dtkung @utdanacenter Dave Kung What would an ideal mathematics department look like? One where lots of students study math for the love of it, including those from groups historically excluded from the math community? A place where everyone works together to support students? One where faculty and students pull...

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Reconsidering Our Role in PK-12 Mathematics

By Michael Pearson and Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer Our society relies on an educated population, yet higher education fails to meet the expectations and needs of broad sectors of society. We aim to prepare our fellow citizens for productive and successful careers, but we are part of a system that bars far too...

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People are rational; but are they logical? [Creativity – Part 2]

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org Image: Andrew Krasovitckii/Shutterstock Well, maybe I should amend my title to begin “People can be rational.” But my focus here is whether being rational is the same as being logical. If by the latter we mean “follow the rules of logic,” then I would say the answer is “No.” Even in...

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My Mathematical Journey: Real Analysis

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 I love real analysis. In many respects, this is the purest form of mathematics. It begins with precise definitions and builds through a progression of lemmas, propositions, and theorems to...

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Technology and Math Education: ChatGPT is here—now what?

By Carrie Diaz Eaton Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for mathematics teachers, particularly when it comes to generating practice problems and examples for students. By training ChatGPT on a set of math problems or concepts, teachers can quickly and easily generate new and similar problems for students to work on...

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My Ideal Beer Buddy is an Integer

By Kate Ertmann The following blog first appeared on Kate Loves Math*.   Where we learn that all numbers are not created equally I want to go back to the basics, to one of the fundamental participants in all mathematical calculations. When I say I love math, most folx presume that means I love arithmetic, which...

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