By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social There are, of course, a wide range of circumstances, character traits, and opportunities that lead us to choose the career path we do. The question is particularly intriguing for mathematicians, since the subject requires considerable effort to master, much of it necessarily involving long periods of unaided, solo effort, struggling to proceed...

By Jana Talley ESTEEM II (Enhancing Data Science and Statistics Teacher Education--Transforming and Building Community) is a three-campus collaboration project funded through both NSF’s Noyce and IUSE programs. In the initial ESTEEM I project, the team integrated statistics content and pedagogy into undergraduate mathematics teacher preparation. The current project, ESTEEM II, is positioned to cultivate...