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Joining FDWK

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. FDWK refers to Ross Finney, Frank Demana, Bert Waits, and Dan Kennedy, the team of authors who for many years and multiple editions updated Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, one of the most popular textbooks for the College Board’s...

There and Back Again: Connecting the Dots

By Lew Ludwig I am always amazed by the authors of textbooks. They take years of expertise and distill it into something meaningful for the rest of us and our students. I know that for many of them, the process started in exactly the same place I find myself: not having the perfect textbook. So...

Analytics for Live TV with John Tobias

John Tobias By Tim Chartier @timchartier, Davidson College with John Tobias, Broadcast Statistician Craving some math? Grab your remote and turn on a sports event! It’s likely that you’ll hear a stat mentioned by an announcer or see them pop onto the screen. Where do such insights come from? Who’s sifting through the numbers to...

Changing Course Design to Enhance Students’ Success

By Shanise Walker Shanise Walker As we begin to prepare for the start of the next academic year, many of us are thinking about changes we have made to our courses prior to the pandemic or during the pandemic and deciding which changes to keep. We are also thinking about other ways we can enhance...

Let’s Remember the Year Everyone Wants to Forget

By Patrick Honner, @MrHonner It’s October, and I have no idea what I’m doing. Patrick Honner Students are logged into my Zoom meeting. I can see some faces, some avatars, some dark, blank rectangles. The problem set is posted in Google Classroom: transformations of functions, composition, domain and range. They’re good problems, a nice mix...

Empathy with Uncertainty

Tim Chartier By Tim Chartier @timchartier The 2020-21 academic year was demanding. In the fall, the family scheduled a day in which we’d all be free—no school, no email, just togetherness. We drove into the mountains, hiked, and simply enjoyed being unplugged and connected to the natural world. It was a wondrous day. Then came...

Covid Lessons Hit Home: Reflections from a High School Teacher

Henry Neale By Henry Neale, Community School of Davidson I recognize that my experience as a teacher this past year probably differed in many important ways from other teachers. I was trying to take care of two kids at home along with our new Covid puppy. My kids are 13 and 16, so that was...

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...

Creating Virtual Escape Rooms

Julie Barnes, Western Carolina University By Julie Barnes, Western Carolina University; Shih-Wei Chao, University of North Georgia; Rachel Epstein, Georgia College; Kerri Jamerson, Mars Hill University; Wei-Kei Lai, University of South Carolina at Salkehatchie; Allie Ray, Birmingham-Southern College; Laura Steil, Mars Hill University How can we do fun, interactive activities with students when we can’t...

Staying Connected with Math after Academia

Anudha Mittal By Anudha Mittal Evenings after work I watch math lectures: Ravi Vakil, Terrance Tao, Manjul Bhargava, Akshay Venkatesh, Sir Michael Atiyah. A welcome break from my predictable day job and my more-mundane social life, the videos stimulate my mind and get me thinking of exciting new ideas. I try to raise some interesting...

The Spark that Ignited My Journey into Mathematics: My AMC Story

By Bryan Nevarez (Queens College, City University of New York; Think & Write) Bryan Nevarez As a freshman in high school, the only thing that the initials AMC meant to me was the popular nation-wide chain of theaters. So when I was informed by my high school, seemingly out of nowhere, that I was selected...

Lessons From My Pop

By Allison Henrich @KnottyAllison Allison Henrich and Scott Jones Scott Jones was a high school dropout when he enlisted in the Navy at age 17. He went to night school to earn a bachelor’s degree so that he could earn his dream job as a Navy pilot. An athlete who represented the military on the...

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