Reimagining Online Mathematics

By: Audrey Malagon, Batten Associate Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Wesleyan University, @malagonmath Due to COVID-19, colleges & universities moved quickly last spring to remote teaching and learning. Many of us used online learning tools for the first time or in new and unfamiliar ways. Even during less turbulent times, we are increasingly relying on web-based...

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Black Lives Matter: A Message from the MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics

By: Carrie Diaz Eaton, MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics Chair, @mathprofcarrie Image with permission from: @werepstem To the Black mathematics community:You are an important part of mathematics. We see your anger at police brutality, police murder, and active racism all against Black bodies and lives. We see that this extends beyond George Floyd...

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A Message from MAA Leadership: Mathematics, and MAA, for Human Flourishing

By: Michael Dorff, MAA President @mdorff44 and Michael Pearson, MAA Executive Director Over the last several days, we have watched with deep sadness the outpouring of grief and anger over the continuing injustice inflicted upon our fellow citizens. The expressions of pain felt by so many serve as a reminder of how important it is...

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Talking about Women Leaving

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Links to responses by CBMS societies to the systemic racism that has been brought back to national attention by the murder of George Floyd are available here. Links to resources...

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Can We Really Understand Exponential Growth?

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin With a life-threatening pandemic, the only way to get a picture of the (invisible) virus’s past, current, and future spread is by mathematics; in particular, tabulating data and drawing graphs. As a result, newspapers, magazines, and news websites are replete with graphs and tables these days. But how well is the average...

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Sisters, How Y’all Feel? Brothers, Y’all Alright?

By: Anisah N. Nu’Man, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spelman College, @_nudoc_ One day, before the start of my Linear Algebra class, a student asked everyone their thoughts on the following quote: “You have not lived a full life, if you have not been depressed.”   Though I was caught off guard by the student’s question, since...

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Opening Up Critical Conversations

By: Carrie Diaz Eaton, Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies, Bates College, @mathprofcarrie In a previous post, I asked where conversations about teaching, inclusion, and data science are occurring. Are they at conferences?  In subgroups? Now I want to ask a follow-up question: Who can participate in these conversations? I’ve been a fan of...

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Hope in the Heartland: The Carver Bridge to STEM Success Program

By: Erin R. Moss, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Millersville University, Co-editor of DUE Point National Science Foundation S-STEM grants provide scholarships for academically talented, low-income students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors. At Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, Hope in the Heartland: The Carver Bridge to STEM Success Program is preparing a cohort of 15...

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Extending Grading Grace

By: Melissa Gutierrez Gonzalez, Pamela E. Harris, Alicia Prieto Langarica, and Ying Tang Dear Professors, We see and acknowledge all of the work you have done to migrate your classes online as you live through the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of you are doing this work while also homeschooling your kids and dealing with uncertainty, illness,...

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Reflections and Observations from Talking about Leaving Revisited

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Links to resources and information posted related to the COVID-19 shutdown by the member societies of CBMS are available at https://cbmsweb.org/covid-19. As I briefly reported in my April 15 column,...

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