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There and Back Again: When Knowing Gets in the Way of Learning

By Lew Ludwig I’ve been invited to the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) annual meeting to discuss AI in the classroom. I know what questions will come up—they’re the ones people ask me at every webinar and workshop: How do we secure assessment in an AI-driven world? How do I use AI in the...

Why do we become mathematicians?

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...

Mathematics and Dance: An Interview with Nancy Scherich

By Allison Henrich, with Nancy Scherich AH: Can you tell me about how you got interested in dance? NS: I was brought up watching musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood. I was probably one of the few children in the 1990s whose favorite celebrities were Fred Astair and Elenor Powell. For as long as...

Equation Poetry

By Radoslav Rochallyi This article is about structural mathematical poetry, a particular kind of concrete poetry in which the typography and layout of the text emphasizes the overall effect. Although the theme of concrete poetry has been described a thousand times in countless places after the Guillaume Apollinaire era, there is still room for concrete...

Dabble in Data with CODAP

By R. N. Uma, NC Central University (NCCU) R.N. Uma Have you ever wished all your students could dabble in data with ease? Has the task of introducing students to spreadsheets (e.g., Microsoft Excel) and programming languages (e.g., R) for data visualization and analyses seemed daunting? My collaborators and I were facing this predicament when...

Playing with Place Value

James Tanton By James Tanton @jamestanton, Facebook: James Tanton, LinkedIn: James Tanton The invention of place value is one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements. Yet, as natural and straightforward as it seems to us today—that “333,” for instance, represents three-hundreds and three-tens and three-ones despite the repeated use of the one symbol “3”—is a concept...

Gathering Around a Virtual Poster Session

By Tim Chartier, Davidson College Along with our remote world came virtual MAA section meetings. An important event in many section meetings is a poster session where mathematicians share their work and attendees peruse a potpourri of topics. For many, the meandering nature of a poster session is part of its charm and utility as...

Mugs to Donuts: An Interview with Co-Editors Carl Schildkraut and Joe Gallian

By Deirdre L. Smeltzer Deirdre L. Smeltzer Joseph Gallian and Carl Schildkraut are the inaugural co-editors of the Mugs to Donuts (MtD) e-newsletter, a recently-launched MAA publication aimed at connecting with current and future Putnam competition participants. I sat down with Joe and Carl to learn more about their interests and find out their plans...

Rigor in the Mathematics Classroom

By Scott Adamson Scott Adamson Think about the following statements: “That math class is rigorous!” “That college has a rigorous math curriculum!” “That was a rigorous math lesson/lecture/test today!” I contend that if these statements were heard by a variety of mathematics educators and if we could see their “thought bubble” containing what they imagine...

Math and Data on the Diamond

By Tim Chartier @timchartier, Davidson College Baseball is full of history and traditions. President William Howard Taft pioneered the presidential first pitch on Opening Day in 1910. The seventh inning stretch fills stadiums around the country with the sound of “Take Me out to the Ball Game.” Statistics have been part of baseball since the...

Joint Efforts to Promote Inquiry and Equity in Coursework for Preservice Teachers

By Erin Moss, Co-Editor, DUE Point, Millersville University Helping preservice teachers experience the exploratory nature of mathematics, develop their own mathematical questions, and challenge preconceived notions of who can be successful in the discipline are the ultimate aims of Focus on Inquiry and Equity in Mathematics for Education Faculty, an NSF DUE-funded project. In August...

A Pen-Pal in the Time of Covid

By Deanna Haunsperger I felt like a kid again as I “tore” open the email marked, “A letter from your pre-scientist is attached!” and read the pdf. My name is Manuel [name changed] and I am going to be your pen pal this year! And immediately we were off and running. Although I like writing...

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