Creating Great Ideas without Trying

Tim Chartier By Tim Chartier, Davidson College The premise of this article is quite simple: let's create great ideas without trying! Does this promise sound too tempting to be true but so promising you need to step into that expanse of potential possibility? Like many sensational promises, the wording is deliberately chosen but potentially misunderstood....

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Creating Space for Creativity

Allison Henrich By Allison Henrich, @KnottyAllison We are all very busy people. We are trying to juggle too many things, and our attention is scattered in a million directions. As a mom of two small kids who is teaching, trying to write three books and keep three research projects with students moving forward, co-chairing a...

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Football’s lessons about Academic and Industry

By Eric Eager, Vice President of Research and Development, Pro Football Focus Eric Eager Mathematics is a beautiful vehicle with which to build a career. There is an inherent beauty to the work, and the applications are seemingly endless. Be that as it may, the profession of mathematics has at times been shoehorned into a...

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Lights, camera, brainstorm! – Doing science in full view in a global pandemic

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin I had been looking forward to attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle early this month. I had attended every JMM since I moved to the US in 1987, and missed not being able to meet up with my many friends and colleagues last year, when the coronavirus pandemic led to...

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My Mathematical Journey: Factorization and Primality Testing

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 Just Equations has recently published an important new study: Charting a New Course: Investigating Barriers on the Calculus Pathway to STEM As I start the Launchings columns for this new...

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Quadrant I Mathematicians and All the Rest

By Brandy Wiegers Dr. Brandy Wiegers Earlier this year, I had an undergraduate advisee ask me if they should change from an applied mathematics degree to a pure mathematics degree if they wanted to go to graduate school. Upon further discussion, I learned that this student understood that a pure mathematics program was a better...

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La fábrica de olímpicos

Imelda M Flores Vazquez By Imelda M Flores Vazquez La Maestra Isabel Cristina y su alumna Danae en una de las competencias de matemáticas. There is a push by some mathematicians to make the discipline look inward while trying to answer the question: how do we make mathematics accessible to all? And a more accurate...

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Embodied Cognition with Hortensia Soto

By Tim Chartier, Davidson College Hortensia “Tensia” Soto In October 2021, Hortensia Soto was announced as the next President-Elect of the MAA. Tensia has a long association with the MAA. Most recently, she was Associate Secretary, planning the virtual MathFests and Joint Math Meetings. Soto is a professor of mathematics at Colorado State University. In...

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Constructivist Curriculum and Pedagogy as Tools for Improving Developmental Mathematics

By Erin Moss, Co-Editor, DUE Point, Millersville University STEM graduates can have satisfying, well-paid careers in a variety of fields, yet many students turn away from those opportunities and graduate with non-STEM degrees because they believe they “can’t do math.” A unique program at the University of New Mexico at Taos implements modules designed from...

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New Classroom Standard: Recording Each Session

Cheryl Ekstrom By Cheryl Ekstrom (LinkedIn) March 2020 saw a steep learning curve as teachers everywhere scrambled to learn new technologies to continue their classes in a new online format. If the theme of Spring 2020 was “Let’s just finish what we started as best we can,” the theme for Fall 2020 seemed to be...

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