By Ekaterina Yurasovskaya With its highly abstract material and proof-writing that students encounter for the first time, Introduction to Proofs often turns into a gatekeeper to a mathematics major. At the Mathematics Department at Seattle University, we achieved significant results by creating a lecture-free, problem-solving ungraded co-requisite course called Mathematical Communication and Reasoning (MCR). The new...

By Lew Ludwig The hamburger graph has become my unexpected companion this summer. It first appeared in a workshop I was co-facilitating, comparing the water usage of AI prompts to beef production. Then it surfaced again a few weeks later - and that's when I realized we weren't really arguing about water at all. The first...