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Mar 1, 2021

Preparing Math Majors for Careers

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSEMath) has partnered with the Education and Employment Research Center (EERC) at Rutgers to create a series of six reports that describe what departments can do…

Aug 31, 2020

5th Annual PIC Math Student Showcase Pivots Online For An Exciting Two-Day Event

The MAA Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematics (PIC Math) program prepares mathematical sciences students for a wide range of careers post graduation. Students are presented with a real-life problem from business, industry, or government (BIG) and have the opportunity to work in groups over the semester to solve the problem. At the conclusion of…

Feb 21, 2019

SUMMIT-P: Revising Early-stage College Math

By Katie Haymaker, Co-editor of DUE Point Two fundamental challenges of teaching required math courses to students in the first two years of college are (i) engaging students, and (ii) making the mathematics relevant to their future study. Tying the curriculum to the needs of other disciplines can encourage student engagement and also has the…

Oct 5, 2018

It’s High Time to Re-focus Systemic Mathematics Education – and Change the Way We Assess It

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin “In math you have to remember, in other subjects you can think about it.” That statement by a female high-school student, was quoted by my Stanford colleague Prof Jo Boaler in her 2009 book What’s Math Got To Do With It? I took it as the title of my June 2010 Devlin’s Angle post,…