My First Time at the AMC

By Tim Chartier Since 2020, high school students ages 15 to 18 submit compelling math communication projects to the National Museum of Mathematics, also known as MoMath, as part of the Steven H. Strogatz Prize for Math Communication. Cash prizes are awarded to the authors of the winning submissions who share a love of math...

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Share Math Like Strogatz: An Interview with Julia Schanen

By Tim Chartier Since 2020, high school students ages 15 to 18 submit compelling math communication projects to the National Museum of Mathematics, also known as MoMath, as part of the Steven H. Strogatz Prize for Math Communication. Cash prizes are awarded to the authors of the winning submissions who share a love of math...

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Mathematics is a habit of thought

CONTENT WARNING: This piece contains mentions of self-harm, depression, and anxiety. By Leanne Merrill Leanne Merrill Every Friday in second grade, after recess, my class played Hot Pencils. We knew it was Hot Pencils time when the teacher began to count out the long skinny papers, row by row. We frantically cleared our desks of...

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Scaling for Maximum Impact: The NSF PRODUCT project reaches many to bring IBL to life in classrooms

By Audrey Malagon In order for high impact teaching practices, such as inquiry based learning (IBL), to be effective, instructors must feel equipped to use them in their actual classrooms. This goal of getting effective inquiry-based pedagogy into more classrooms motivated Stan Yoshinobu and team to launch NSF PRODUCT (PROfessional Development and Uptake through Collaborative...

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Testimonios: Dr. Ricardo Cortez

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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Math Activities in Spanish for Children and Families

By Jeanette Shakalli Jeanette Shakalli Irene Vasquez who lives in the province of Veraguas in the Republic of Panama started attending FUNDAPROMAT’s virtual events when she was 11 years old. She even celebrated her 12th-birthday at one of our Webinars on Recreational Mathematics where she learned about math in archeology. Now that Irene is 13...

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Welcome to “Learning through the Ranks: A Math Values Graduate Student Blog”

By Jasmine Camero Jasmine Camero As a first-generation student, my first day of college felt paramount, but, contrastingly, also felt isolating. Paramount because I was the first person in my Latinx family to attend a four-year university. Isolating because I was the first person in my Latinx family to attend a four-year university. This brought...

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PISA 2022 gets it right

by Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) provides international comparisons of national educational achievements What image comes to mind when you hear a reference to the website for the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics?   In particular, do you think of a single Web page,...

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Bringing the World into the Math Classroom Through Music

By James S. Walker James S. Walker Since 2009, I have taught an interdisciplinary course on mathematics and music at UW-Eau Claire. The course is a wonderful blend of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the art of music. Music in the course ranges from jazz, rhythm and blues, African drumbeats, Afro-Latin rhythmic techniques, Indian raga,...

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Calculus, College Admissions, and the High School Curriculum

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 The third installment of My Mathematical Journey: Pólya’s “Let Us Teach Guessing”, was released on February 15 to free up the March Launchings for this column. I have often written...

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