Epsilon of Promise

By Tim Chartier @timchartier, Professor of Mathematics, Davidson College I learned in college that, as the saying goes, the sun will indeed come out tomorrow. But that doesn’t mean everyone will feel its warmth. When I began as an undergrad at Western Michigan University, I was coming off a series of health struggles that kept...

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Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics Statement in Support of our Asian and Asian American Community Members

On March 16, 2021 a man killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, and injured one man in a shooting spree in Atlanta, Georgia. This violence has renewed broader calls to support our Asian and Asian American communities. The specifics of this tragic incident remind us that there are multiple layers of identity-based...

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How STEM Faculty and K-12 Teachers in the US Virgin Islands Found Support During a Pandemic

By Nadia Monrose Mills, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of the Virgin Islands The Virgin Islands Institute for STEM Education Research and Practice, VI-ISERP, is a vibrant intellectual center dedicated to improving STEM education in the Virgin Islands through research, networking, and innovation. The goals of the center are to:  Improve STEM Education in the...

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Technology: Ubiquitous Expectations & Fragmented Access

By Melinda Lanius, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Arizona The third week of February 2021 was awful for so many across the United States. Temperatures reached dangerous lows, water pipes froze, and power grids failed. I hope you all were able to stay safe and warm and were able to connect to the resources you needed....

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Program Seeks to Develop Military and Civilian Leaders in STEM

By Audrey Malagon, Lead Editor of DUE Point, Virginia Wesleyan University The National Science Foundation (NSF) S-STEM programs provide scholarships and opportunities for low-income students to excel in STEM fields. At Norwich University, the oldest Senior Military College in the country, their goal is to develop S-STEM scholars into leaders in both the military and...

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Oral Exams: A Time-Honored Tool with a Fresh Purpose

By Della Dumbaugh, Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond With the sudden shift to Zoom classrooms in the spring of 2020, I found it difficult to connect with students and uncertain of their understanding of critical content. On a whim, I resurrected and reconfigured a tool from graduate school: the oral exam. This assessment tool...

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Math and Data on the NBA Court

By Math Values Editorial Board Steven Angel, a Senior Vice President in the National Basketball Association Data plays an ever-increasing role in our world, which is seen specifically in sports. College coaches increasingly use data, in some cases leaning on undergraduate and graduate school programs and clubs for help with the analysis. Data analysis is an ever-present,...

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COVID-19 and the Math of Life Expectancy

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin The tweet shown here caught my attention a couple of weeks ago. It wasn’t the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic led to a drop in life expectancy that aroused my curiosity. That is to be expected. It was the magnitude of the drop that caused my “number-sense sensor” to prick up. A...

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Parenting and Professing During a Pandemic: Five Mothers’ Experiences

By Lisa Bromberg, Springfield College; Jennifer Gorman, College of Southern Nevada; Erin McNicholas, Williamette University; Jessica O’Shaughnessy, Shenandoah University; and Lesley Wiglesworth, Centre College We wanted to write a blog post about our experiences being a faculty member and parent during the pandemic, but, frankly, we’re exhausted. We came to the conclusion that none of...

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Preparing Math Majors for Careers

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSEMath) has partnered with the Education and Employment Research Center (EERC) at Rutgers to create a series of six reports that describe what departments can do...

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