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When Lightning Strikes: Prospective PIs Share their Experiences Interacting with NSF Officers in a Fast-Paced Virtual Session

By Erin Moss, Co-Editor, DUE Point, Millersville University This past March, the MAA held a virtual event in which prospective Principle Investigators each gave a five-minute Lightning Talk about a project idea they plan to submit for NSF funding. After each talk, two NSF program officers—Edgar Fuller and Mike Ferrara—provided fifteen minutes of feedback on...

Series in 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 Cal culus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, one of the most popular textbooks for the College...

Structuring Professional Learning Communities for College-Level Instructional Change

By Erin Moss STEM majors who are placed into college algebra frequently experience the course as an obstacle to success and timely degree completion. Since research has demonstrated that inquiry-oriented instruction leads to increased learning and persistence in STEM degrees, developing faculty who are able to implement that pedagogy in college algebra is a worthy...

Calculus for Teachers: On Continuity

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. This month’s column was inspired by an article by Xiaoheng Yan, Ofer Marmur, and Rina Zazkis, “Calculus for Teachers: Perspective and Considerations for Mathematicians.” The authors had interviewed mostly Canadian mathematicians. Unlike Advanced Placement Calculus in the...

A Baker, a Decorator, and a Wedding Planner Walk into a Classroom

By Lew Ludwig Baking, Decorating, or Planning: What Role Are Your Students Playing? Are your students learning to bake the cake? Are they learning to decorate the cake? Or are they acting as wedding planners so they can outsource the cake so they can focus on the other stuff? This analogy, shared by Maha Bali...

Three Ways to Support Students

By Axel Brandt Among college and university personnel, faculty (arguably) have the greatest opportunity for interactions with students. We are often called upon to support students in many aspects of their lives, including academic, emotional, and career preparation. Let’s talk about some relatively simple ways that we can answer that call. Academic Support via Office...

Beliefs and Belongings in Mathematics

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. I believe that there is no discipline that elicits such strong negative reactions as mathematics. To admit that one is a mathematician is to invite comments on how difficult and frustrating others have found their experience of...

The Higher Ground

By Lew Ludwig One of the more memorable scenes from the Star Wars prequel trilogy features a pivotal standoff between Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, on the fiery volcanic planet of Mustafar. As their duel reaches a climactic end, Obi-Wan secures a tactical advantage by positioning himself on a higher embankment....

A Mathematician in a School of Art: an interview with Edmund Harriss

By Tim Chartier Within the intersection of mathematics and art lie beautiful creations to delight mathematicians and artists alike. Mathematics may be the muse that inspires art or serves a more fundamental role alongside a brush, lathe, or loom. To gain greater context on this field, we interview Dr. Edmund Harriss, a mathematician, artist, and...

Reflections on applying for jobs as a PhD Student, Part II

By Christopher Keyes In part I, I shared my thoughts on how to determine what you actually want out of your first job search. Here I’ll focus on specific things I did, or pieces of advice I received, that I found especially useful leading up to my first academic job search, as well as some...

Reflections on applying for jobs as a PhD Student, Part I

By Christopher Keyes Navigating the academic job market as a finishing PhD student can be a daunting experience. It is a delicate balance of reflection, writing compelling applications, and uncertainty, all while trying to stay on top of your research agenda and teaching responsibilities. Now nearly two years removed from my first time on this...

Introducing Power Analysis in the Mathematics Classroom

By Carrie Diaz Eaton Over the last several years, there have been a number of calls for us to understand and convey to students that mathematics is not neutral. Piper H’s Inclusion/Exclusion blog calling to #DisruptJMM, Belin Tsinnajinnie’s 2020 Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Invited Lecture on colonialism in education and mathematics, and the NCTM position statement on the...

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