Trusting/Fearing Students

By Debra K. Borkovitz Debra K. Borkovitz In 2005 my Crohn’s disease flared during the first week of classes at Wheelock College. I ended up needing to miss two weeks, and I wasn’t able to find a substitute for my advanced class. The six students, most of whom I knew from previous courses, made a...

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Making the mathematics education sausage

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin “People who like sausage should avoid watching it be made.” Old saying There’s an old Irish joke that goes like this. A motorist pulls up in front of a pub, winds down the window, and addresses an old man sitting at an outside table sipping a glass of Guinness: “Excuse me,...

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Making a Major League Baseball Team with Math: An interview with Tim Zue, Boston Red Sox

By Iain Anderson, Tim Zue, and Susannah Cate Iain Anderson Tim Zue, a native New Englander and graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a pioneer in sports-business analytics, particularly for his work managing the financial arm of the Boston Red Sox since 2015. To learn more about working in Major League Baseball and hints...

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My Mathematical Journey: From F = ma to E = mc^2

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 This month I have chosen to write about the genesis of a very important book in my development as a writer, Second Year Calculus: From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity....

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Writing About Mathematics for a General Audience

By Keith Devlin Keith Devlin You are a math educator and, for whatever reason, you decide you want to write about mathematics for the general public. Power to you. Most people are woefully informed about mathematics—and are not able to solve a typical 8th Grade problem. So for the good of society, getting the word...

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Sines of Disability: Disrupting Ableism in Mathematics and Beyond

By Dr. Daniel Reinholz & Lisette Torres-Gerald Dr. Daniel Reinholz When you think about a mathematician, what comes to mind? Do you think of a disabled person? If you’re following common stereotypes in society, almost certainly not. Although disability and mathematics have received a lot of attention in broader society, much of it has been...

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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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