You’re Really Going to Ask Me That in an Interview? Part 2: BIG Jobs Edition

By: Rachel Levy, Deputy Executive Director MAA @mathcirque What should you do when someone asks you an interview question that they shouldn’t ask? As a companion to MAA’s 101 Careers in Mathematics and SIAM’s BIG Jobs Guide, we have developed the BIG Career Interview Card Game to help people practice for internship and job interviews....

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Teaching, Research, and Service…Remotely??? The Present and Future of a Virtual Academic Life

By: Haydee Lindo, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Williams  College @haydeelindo, Anisah N. Nu’Man, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spelman College, @_nudoc_  This global pandemic has shaken our lives more than we could have possibly anticipated. Our focus at this time should be our mental and physical health, and the well-being of the people in our lives....

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You’re Really Going to Ask Me That in an Interview? Part 1: Grad School Edition

By: Rachel Levy, Deputy Executive Director MAA @mathcirque When I applied to graduate school I had a phone interview. The guy on the phone was friendly, and enthusiastic about my application. But at one point the conversation took an unanticipated turn. “So, tell me, exactly how old are you?” At that time, I was about a...

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Inspiring the Next Generation of Teachers

By: Audrey Malagon, Lead Editor of DUE Point As professors, we carefully craft lessons that will inspire, engage, and hopefully pass on the joy of learning mathematics to our students. Some of these students are preparing to be teachers themselves, completing upper-level mathematics courses as part of the requirements for secondary mathematics teaching certification. But...

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Mathematics Education in the Time of COVID-19

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 by the member societies of CBMS are available at https://cbmsweb.org/covid-19. I was going to use this column to briefly introduce some of the many...

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MAA Recommendations for COVID-19 Response

By: Rachel Levy, Deputy Executive Director MAA @mathcirque The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) recognizes the unusual circumstances faced by the mathematical sciences community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many students, staff, and faculty are facing demanding challenges due to increased caregiving responsibilities, economic hardships, and a lack of resources for teaching and learning, including access...

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Online Learning, Privacy, and the Future of Society

By: Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America As many of us (myself included) move to online tools to carry out our work, I am thankful for the technological infrastructure that allows many of us to continue our work, albeit in dramatically changed circumstances and with expectations in flux. I am pleased...

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Peak AP Calculus, What Comes Next? Part II

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 This column was written before the covid-19 pandemic disrupted all of our lives. Nevertheless, I am keeping this post because it deals directly with issues of equity, one of the...

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Making Sense of the COVID-19 Data

By: Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin How dangerous is the novel coronavirus, and how does that risk compare with other risks we face in our lives? That’s a question many of us asked as the pandemic started to make its way across the Atlantic. Like a number of other mathematicians, I took data from online sources such...

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Supporting our Community During COVID-19

By: Michael Pearson, Executive Director of the Mathematical Association of America I find myself reflecting during this time of uncertainty. We are experiencing an unprecedented situation, where emotions are heightened and disruption seems like the new “normal.” While everything around us seems ever-changing, I want to assure you that our focus at the MAA remains...

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