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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Changing Course Design to Enhance Students’ Success

By Shanise Walker Shanise Walker As we begin to prepare for the start of the next academic year, many of us are thinking about changes we have made to our courses prior to the pandemic or during the pandemic and deciding which changes to keep. We are also thinking about other ways we can enhance...

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Let’s Remember the Year Everyone Wants to Forget

By Patrick Honner, @MrHonner It’s October, and I have no idea what I’m doing. Patrick Honner Students are logged into my Zoom meeting. I can see some faces, some avatars, some dark, blank rectangles. The problem set is posted in Google Classroom: transformations of functions, composition, domain and range. They’re good problems, a nice mix...

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Empathy with Uncertainty

Tim Chartier By Tim Chartier @timchartier The 2020-21 academic year was demanding. In the fall, the family scheduled a day in which we’d all be free—no school, no email, just togetherness. We drove into the mountains, hiked, and simply enjoyed being unplugged and connected to the natural world. It was a wondrous day. Then came...

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Joint Efforts to Promote Inquiry and Equity in Coursework for Preservice Teachers

By Erin Moss, Co-Editor, DUE Point, Millersville University Helping preservice teachers experience the exploratory nature of mathematics, develop their own mathematical questions, and challenge preconceived notions of who can be successful in the discipline are the ultimate aims of Focus on Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics for Education Faculty, an NSF DUE-funded project. In August...

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