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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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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Conversations & Relationships

By Hortensia Soto Hortensia Soto A couple weeks I ago I visited my best friend, Debbie, and as usual we sat around laughing and sharing about novel gadgets that simplify our lives, about the latest news regarding certain foods, about the new vitamins that we are taking, about new tricks that help us sleep, etc....

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Math Education and “Divisive Concepts”

By Michael Pearson I suppose it should be no surprise that mathematics education has become yet another flash point in our interminable culture wars. Recently (on January 15, 2022), the newly-elected governor of Virginia issued his first executive order of the year, verbosely titled ENDING THE USE OF INHERENTLY DIVISIVE CONCEPTS, INCLUDING CRITICAL RACE THEORY,...

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Math Acceleration for STEM Students

By Jana Talley, Co-Editor of DUE Point, Jackson State University STEM courses can be challenging, particularly Calculus I which is known as the gateway math course to most STEM majors. Community college students and those from vulnerable backgrounds (such as first generation, underrepresented, or financially disadvantaged students) are especially prone to struggle with this critical...

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Welcome to the Living Proof Math Values Blog

By Jennifer Bowen, Sarah Bryant, Susan Crook, Allison Henrich, Anisah Nu’Man, and Matthew Pons L to R, Top to Bottom: Sarah, Jen, Allison, Anisah, Matthew, Susan The women in Matthew Pons' analysis class were crushing it. He saw them putting in the time to work through lots of problems, ask questions, share ideas, and seek...

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