Inclusive Class and Seinfeld

By Lew Ludwig Not that there’s anything wrong with that… I taught my first college-level math class in the early 1990s – the era with only three major television networks and “Must See TV” (already, I may have lost some of you). To connect with my mostly white, suburban, Midwestern students, I would reference one...

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Being Human in Mathematics and Statistics

By Sarah L. Bunnell, Shu-Min Liao, Megan Lyster, and Sheila Jaswal The Being Human in STEM (HSTEM) Initiative arose out of a time of conflict at Amherst College. Students occupied the College library for four days, giving voice to their experiences of marginalization and exclusion on campus. Over the preceding 5 years, Amherst had dramatically...

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Testimonios: Dr. Roberto Soto

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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My Questions for Guiding an Initial Mentoring Meeting

By Pamela E. Harris In my new position as a professor at a research institution, I am beginning to build mentor-mentee relationships with graduate students, which (as is expected) are relationships that can last a lifetime. Mentoring graduate students is impactful work that requires great care and nothing to take lightly. As I began to...

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Unlocking the Aperiodic Monotile’s Secrets: An Interview with Craig Kaplan

By Tim Chartier Craig Kaplan On Monday, March 20, 2023, a paper “An aperiodic monotile” appeared on the arxiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798).  It introduced a 13-sided polygon called “the hat” that tiled the plane aperiodically.  Simply put, the research result is huge.   The news not only spread quickly among mathematicians, but it also spread to the...

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Does AI Pose a Threat to Mathematics Education?

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org A Teacher Appreciation Week message to teachers from the NEA, posted on their website in April 2023. National Teacher Day in the US takes place on Tuesday May 2 this year. Many countries celebrate their Teachers' Day on 5 October each year, in conjunction with World Teachers' Day, which was established by UNESCO in...

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My Mathematical Journey – Project CALC

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. davidbressoud.org Of all my experiences at Penn State between deciding to stop chasing research grants and the move to Macalester College, none was more important or formative than my implementation...

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Dialogue is Necessary

By Michael Pearson Michael Pearson In June 2021, California added Florida to its list of states for which the use of state travel funds is prohibited. These travel bans were enacted on the basis of a 2016 California law declaring that "California must take action to avoid supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

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Memory (Still) Matters: What Teachers Need to Know about Building Knowledge in a Technological World

By Lew Ludwig Last century, when I first taught calculus, there was a heavy emphasis on memorizing and then applying rules: the power rule, the product rule, the quotient rule, and the chain rule, to name a few. For students to perform well, they needed to memorize these rules and quickly apply them in a...

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Cura Personalis: Care of the Whole Person

By Jana Talley, Co-Editor of DUE Point, Jackson State University Research shows that commuter students are less engaged in scholarly activities outside of class and can feel disconnected from their collegiate experiences due to work obligations, family responsibilities, and additional travel time constraints. With over 80% of Saint Peter’s University students commuting to campus, the...

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