What will you keep?

Allison Henrich By Allison Henrich, Seattle University; Haydee Lindo, Harvey Mudd University; Natalie Naehrig, University of Washington The following post is based on conversations from the Pacific Northwest Section NExT workshop where Angela Siple and Allison Henrich from Seattle University facilitated a panel and discussion on current and post-pandemic teaching. The panelists were Ramadha Piyadi...

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Building Interdisciplinary Learning Communities

By Jana Talley, Co-Editor of DUE Point, Jackson State University Through scholarship awards the NSF S-STEM program supports students from low-income backgrounds as they pursue STEM careers. Given that Lee University has a significant population of academically talented students from low-income households, it is uniquely situated to effectively implement its S-STEM project, Integrated Mathematics and...

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Casia: Outside the Classroom: Students’ Co-Curricular Lives During Covid

By Casia Siegel Often when we are teaching, we only see our students for a few hours each week. What were they experiencing during Covid-19 that we didn’t see? Four students have agreed to tell their stories about the past year; watch Math Values this week for a glimpse into the lives of our students....

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Sebastian: Outside the Classroom: Students’ Co-Curricular Lives During Covid

By Sebastian Gutierrez-Olvera Often when we are teaching, we only see our students for a few hours each week. What were they experiencing during Covid-19 that we didn’t see? Four students have agreed to tell their stories about the past year; watch Math Values this week for a glimpse into the lives of our students....

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Seamus: Outside the Classroom: Students’ Co-Curricular Lives During Covid

By Seamus Stein Often when we are teaching, we only see our students for a few hours each week. What were they experiencing during Covid-19 that we didn’t see? Four students have agreed to tell their stories about the past year; watch Math Values this week for a glimpse into the lives of our students....

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Cristina: Outside the Classroom: Students’ Co-Curricular Lives During Covid

By Cristina Gonzalez Often when we are teaching, we only see our students for a few hours each week. What were they experiencing during Covid-19 that we didn’t see? Four students have agreed to tell their stories about the past year; watch Math Values this week for a glimpse into the lives of our students.  ...

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Pandemic and Post-pandemic Student Experiences: A Survey

By Deanna Haunsperger and Jaylin Lowe Student Survey about Pandemic and Post-pandemic Experiences Deanna Haunsperger In July 2021, we posted a survey on MAA Connect and asked faculty to distribute it to their students. There were 155 respondents to this convenience survey from high school, two-year college, four-year liberal arts college, and university, with most...

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On Tracking in Middle School Mathematics

By Sandra Kingan, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY @profkingan Sandra Kingan To develop learning that can lead to mathematical power for all California students, the framework has much to correct; the subject and community of mathematics has a history of exclusion and filtering, rather than inclusion and welcoming. There persists a...

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When the media get the math wrong – badly wrong

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin As I was looking around for a topic for this month’s post, I wondered idly what I had written about in Devlin’s Angle exactly a quarter century ago, in August 1996. (The column had begun in January of that year, as had the MAA’s website.) Given the many major changes in...

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Calculus around the World

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences The June 2021 issues of ZDM – Mathematics Education is a collection of articles on Calculus in High School around the World, edited by Patrick Thompson and Guershon Harel. My own...

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