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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Reflections on a DEI Workshop for Undergraduate Research Mentors

By Allison Henrich @KnottyAllison and Shanise Walker In May, the Center for Minorities in the Mathematical Sciences hosted a workshop entitled “Creating a Better Summer Experience: A DEI Workshop for REU Directors and Faculty Mentors.” Presenters Carol Bennett, Pamela Harris, Abbe Herzig, Alicia Prieto-Langarica, and Sarah Sword shared a wealth of ideas for how to...

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Analytics for Live TV with John Tobias

John Tobias By Tim Chartier @timchartier, Davidson College with John Tobias, Broadcast Statistician Craving some math? Grab your remote and turn on a sports event! It’s likely that you’ll hear a stat mentioned by an announcer or see them pop onto the screen. Where do such insights come from? Who’s sifting through the numbers to...

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