Teaching & Learning – Page 20 – Mathematical Association of America

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Two Recent News Stories on Educational Technology Carry Good News and Bad

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social As a developer of an education technology product, my eye was naturally caught by two recent news stories on the topic. On February 27, the government finally agreed to re-start the two programs that fund most of the newest educational technology products that spin-out from universities. Those programs are the Small Business...

The Proofs Project

By Jana Talley This installment of DUE Point features the Proofs Project, funded through NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program. To facilitate the development of students’ logical reasoning skills in introductory proofs courses, the project team designed instructional strategies and materials to invoke epistemological obstacles. They then provided instructors with professional development to implement...

My Mathematical Journey: The Alternating Sign Matrix Theorem

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and former Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Problem: Prove the Vandermonde Determinant Formula which says that the determinant of the matrix for which the entry in row i, column j is (x_j)^{n–i) is the product of x_i...

Students Speak: The Best Thing My Professor Did For Me to Make Me Feel Welcome in Class

By Zack Bright Zack Bright Throughout my career as an undergraduate mathematics student, I have met a lot of professors. Each one was unique in their own way, and, in addition to the classwork, taught me lessons that didn't really have anything to do with mathematics. These “life lessons” have been an important part of...

Making Introductory Mathematics More Accessible with Universal Design

By Erin Moss, Co-Editor, DUE Point, Millersville University In our DUE Point posts, we typically catch up with Principal Investigators at least a year or two into the process of administering their grant. This month, we are interviewing a PI earlier in the process to help readers understand the preparatory work of taking an idea...

Summer Reading List 2022

By Darren Glass, Gettysburg College Darren Glass Summer is once again here, and I know that many of us need a break after another long, hard year. And once again the editor of this blog has asked me to recommend some books that are not too technical but that have enough of a mathematical bent...

Students Speak: What Professors Can Do To Help Students in the Job Search Process

By Casey Fenster Casey Fenster Many students hope to pursue a career in industry after graduation. I recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a major in Computational Modeling and Data Analytics and minors in Computer Science and Statistics. In August, I will begin as a Data Analytics Consultant for CapTech in its Richmond, Virginia headquarters....

Classroom Community within Uncertainty

By Tim Chartier, Davidson College Tim Chartier The January 31, 2022 article “’It’s Just Stressful’: Students Feel the Weight of Pandemic Uncertainty” by Jacey Fortin and Giulia Heyward in The New York Times detailed examples of the pandemic and its stresses changing children and youth. The article notes how many were scrambling to catch up...

Golden Ratio Poetry: Mathematical Poetry According to φ

By Radoslav Rochallyi I have been a professional poet for many years, and I’m interested in a variety of poetic styles such as FIB, CADAE, and several forms of mathematical poetry. (See my earlier Math Values post on Equation Poetry.) As James Henle has said, “the association of mathematics and poetry is ancient. It is...

My Mathematical Journey: Issai Schur, Henry Alder, and Partitions

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and former Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences MAA has just published Addressing Challenges to the Precalculus through Calculus II Sequence through Case Studies, the Notes volume summarizing the results of the NSF-sponsored project, Progress through Calculus, case...

Promoting Success in Undergraduate Mathematics through Graduate Teaching Assistant Training

By Audrey Malagon, Virginia Wesleyan University, Lead Editor Mike Jacobson, Leigh Harrell-Williams, and their team of investigators recognize the importance of preparing graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). GTAs’ teaching experiences begin in graduate school and often continue into academic careers. While in the first stages of teaching, GTAs often interact with undergraduates early in their own...

Goodbye, Grad School!

By Jack Sturm Jack Sturm Throughout my entire life, I always wanted to be a teacher. Only knowing what I had been exposed to, I transitioned from wanting to be an elementary school teacher to a junior high teacher and then, finally, to a high school teacher. When I started at North Central College, I...

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