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Tylenol Math
By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social This past month, Tylenol went from being a red-and-white bottle most of us keep in a cupboard for dealing with physical pain—everything from a morning-after headache to post surgery recovery—to being questioned in the US as a potentially dangerous drug (for some people, pregnant women in particular). True, the current US administration...

How I Learned to Mitigate Sustainability Issues with Maths
By Rhea Ghosal In March 2025, smoke from the Crabapple Fire north of Fredericksburg pushed across the Hill Country toward Austin. News alerts kept stuttering in, and by morning a family friend’s house was gone. Later we stood in a kitchen that still smelled of smoke, talking about wind, dryness, and how fast the fire...
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    Best Practices Statements

    “Best Practices” statements written by the MAA’s Committee on Faculty and Departments (CFD) are the successor to the Guidelines for Programs and Departments in Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences report which was last published by the MAA in 2003. Along with updating the content based on new developments in the profession, technological change in the past decade provides us an opportunity to reimagine the format and distribution of the information in the Guidelines.