Podcasts about Mathematical Association

It's another first here on the pod - a LIVE recording! A group of us came together to discuss what we were seeing at Mathfest and what we think needs to happen to get to a tipping point with grading reform. Thank you to everyone who joined us!LinksPlease note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Clicking on them and purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!Mathematical Association of AmericaMathFest10 – Artificial Scarcity and Doing Alt Grading “Right” or “Wrong”: An Interview With David Clark26 – Active Learning and Alternative Grading: An Introduction to Team-Based Inquiry Learning with Dr. Drew Lewis and Dr. Steven Clontz28 – Developing and Using Technology Tools to Author Assessments – with Steven ClontzPROSE Consortium29 – The Current State and Future Wishes for SoTL in Alt Grading – with Dr. Drew Lewis54 – Reflections on the 2024 Grading Conference with Ashleigh Fox and Drew LewisTeam Based Inquiry Learning50 – How we quadrupled our pass rate: Lessons learned from Redesigning Precalculus, An Interview with Dr. Latrice BowmanCheckIt - problem generationResourcesThe Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:The Grading for Growth BlogThe Grading ConferenceThe Intentional Academia BlogRecommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):

This episode continues my sporadic series on the various fields students may choose to study while in college, today discussing a major in mathematics. My guest is Dr. Francis Su, a professor of Mathematics at the prestigious Harvey Mudd College. Francis is a past president of the Mathematical Association of America, has been featured in Wired and The New York Times, and is the author of the award-winning Mathematics for Human Flourishing.   In this podcast we discuss: How Francis first got interested in studying mathematics The distinction between mathematics and arithmetic How math helps us shape a set of virtues and flourish (vs. approaching math as simply skills) Career opportunities for those with a degree in mathematics Which character traits indicate you may do well as a math major The similarities between mathematics and philosophy The similarities between mathematics and music Different emphases in the field of mathematics How studying mathematics has helped Francis in his spiritual life Challenges mathematics has posed to Francis' faith Where he sees ideas in mathematics as consistent with a Christian worldview Areas in mathematics Christian students may want to consider pursuing Francis' general advice for all college students   Resources mentioned during our conversation: Francis Su, Mathematics for Human Flourishing Derek Schuurman's work on ethics, faith, and technology Francis Su's website Francis Su's article “The Lesson of Grace in Teaching”

Learn about Maths Inside and other opportunities as Assoc Prof Mary Coupland from School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the UTS Faculty of Science Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education About the Maths Inside Project (2015-2018). This project was funded for 1.9 million dollars by the Australian Maths and Science Partnership Program (Federal Government). Dr Coupland was co-leader with Associate Professor Anne Prescott at UTS. The collaborative project with CSIRO and AAMT produced curriculum materials highlighting the role of mathematics in science. The materials, videos of scientists with related classroom activities, are freely available and used in many Australian schools. An accompanying research project indicated that Maths Inside was successful in raising student interest in studying mathematics, and improving teacher awareness of the importance of mathematics in addressing current real-world issues. https://www.uts.edu.au/research/maths-inside. ICME-15, International Congress on Mathematics Education.Sydney, 7-14 July 2024. www.icme15.com About Dr Mary Coupland Dr Mary Coupland is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS. Mary specialises in mathematics education, specifically in first year university mathematics, data literacy, and professional development for teachers of mathematics. She has been a consultant in mathematics curriculum development for NESA and ACARA, and an examiner for the HSC General Mathematics examinations. She is a member of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA); Life Member and President, (2010-2011), Mathematical Association of NSW; President, (2014-2015), Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. For her work in mathematics education, she was awarded the Professional Teachers Association's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2012 and the Exceptional Service Award in 2020Get in touch Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world! https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/ Know an educator who'd love this STEM podcast episode?  Share it!The FizzicsEd podcast is a member of the Australian Educators Online Network (AEON )http://www.aeon.net.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn about Maths Inside and other opportunities as Assoc Prof Mary Coupland from School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the UTS Faculty of Science Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education About the Maths Inside Project (2015-2018). This project was funded for 1.9 million dollars by the Australian Maths and Science Partnership Program (Federal Government). Dr Coupland was co-leader with Associate Professor Anne Prescott at UTS. The collaborative project with CSIRO and AAMT produced curriculum materials highlighting the role of mathematics in science. The materials, videos of scientists with related classroom activities, are freely available and used in many Australian schools. An accompanying research project indicated that Maths Inside was successful in raising student interest in studying mathematics, and improving teacher awareness of the importance of mathematics in addressing current real-world issues. https://www.uts.edu.au/research/maths-inside. ICME-15, International Congress on Mathematics Education.Sydney, 7-14 July 2024. www.icme15.com About Dr Mary Coupland Dr Mary Coupland is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UTS. Mary specialises in mathematics education, specifically in first year university mathematics, data literacy, and professional development for teachers of mathematics. She has been a consultant in mathematics curriculum development for NESA and ACARA, and an examiner for the HSC General Mathematics examinations. She is a member of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA); Life Member and President, (2010-2011), Mathematical Association of NSW; President, (2014-2015), Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. For her work in mathematics education, she was awarded the Professional Teachers Association's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2012 and the Exceptional Service Award in 2020Get in touch Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world! https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/ Know an educator who'd love this STEM podcast episode?  Share it!The FizzicsEd podcast is a member of the Australian Educators Online Network (AEON )http://www.aeon.net.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Women of Color in a traditionally male dominated field is lonely uphill battle. Dr. Talithia Williams joins me today to share her story of a Black Woman in Mathematics. Statistician Talithia Williams is an innovative, award-winning college professor, a host of the PBS NOVA documentary Zero to Infinity, co-host of the PBS NOVA series NOVA Wonders and a speaker whose popular TED Talk, “Own Your Body's Data”, extols the value of statistics in quantifying personal health information. She demystifies the mathematical process in amusing and insightful ways to excite students, parents, educators and the larger community about STEM education and its possibilities. In 2015, she won the Mathematical Association of America's Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member, which honors faculty members whose teaching is effective and extraordinary, and extends its influence beyond the classroom. It is this excellence that attracted the attention of online educational company The Great Courses, which selected Williams to produce “Learning Statistics: Concepts and Applications in R,” a series of lectures in which she provides tools to evaluate statistical data and determine if it's used appropriately. She is the author of “Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics”, a full-color book highlighting the influence of women in the mathematical sciences in the last two millennia and has narrated several science documentary films including; Hindenburg: The New Evidence, Our Beautiful Planet, Secrets in our DNA, and the joint BBC and NOVA 5-part series Universe: Revealed. Williams is a proud graduate of Spelman College (B.A., mathematics), Howard University (M.S., mathematics) and Rice University (M.A., Ph.D., statistics). Her research involves developing statistical models that emphasize the spatial and temporal structure of data and applying them to problems in the environment. She's worked at NASA, National Security Agency and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has partnered with the World Health Organization on research regarding cataract surgical rates in African countries. Faith and family round out a busy life that she shares with her husband and three amazing boys. Through her research and work in the community at large, she is helping change the collective mindset regarding STEM in general and math in particular, rebranding the field of mathematics as anything but dry, technical or male-dominated but, instead, a logical, productive career path that is crucial to the future of the country.

How can the subject of math be a source of human flourishing? Find out as we interview Francis Su, PhD, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics. Francis Su writes about the dignity of human beings and the wonder of mathematical teaching. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. His book Mathematics for Human Flourishing, winner of the 2021 Euler Book Prize, offers an inclusive vision of what math is, who it's for, and why anyone should learn it.

Learning the teaching craft, creating your own manipulatives, and building a diverse professional network. Executive Officer with the Mathematical Association of Western Australia Paula McMahon joins the show to share her experiences with helping students connect different concepts of mathematics, learning the craft from teachers in other fields, advice for out of field teachers, and some thoughts on institutional changes to ease the teacher shortage. Key Links:Paula McMahon:https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-mcmahon-632130168 MAWA:https://mawainc.org.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Nira Chamberlain OBE is one of the UK's most eminent mathematicians, President of the Mathematical Association and former President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. In 2018 he was named the World's Most Interesting Mathematician.We could go on, but suffice to say that Professor Chamberlain is passionate about maths, its teaching and its application. He has over 30 years of experience at writing mathematical algorithms that solve complex industrial problems and five - yes, five - mathematical doctorates.Topics Liam and Nira discuss include:00:00 Intro00:33 Maths isn't important, every phone has a calculator.06:35 I don't need maths, I'm going to be a footballer.13:53 Nira's job as a mathematical modeller14:53 Is maths the best game that has ever been invented?20:35 The first mathematical question I received in infant school and the power of maths.24:42 A boxer! “You don't need anybody's permission to be a great mathematician!”26:53 “You are technically weak and naive if you ever think you can do a PhD in mathematics.”29:14 Is this subconscious racism?33:01 How do you promote diversity and where do changes need to happen?38:53 A singer! “You don't need anybody's permission to be a great mathematician!”42:37 The President of the IMA – Building a Powerful Mathematical Identity44:32 The 5th most influential black person in the UK51:30 “Being the first is nothing to be proud of, but it is a calling to ensure that one is not the last.”53:19 What will engage and inspire future mathematicians?57:21 Black PantherFollow Nira:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dtnirachamberlain/X: https://twitter.com/ch_niraLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professor-dr-nira-chamberlain-obe-fima-fors-csci-phd-hondsc-60b0491b/Follow White Rose Education:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whiteroseeducation/?hl=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whiteroseedu/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@whiteroseeducationYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_N77kci_H7QM41tMs2ph7wX: https://twitter.com/WhiteRoseEdLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/white-rose-education/Website: http://whiteroseeducation.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learning pedagogical techniques from other disciplines, shaking up the structure of the classroom, and getting support from your local organisations. President of MASA, Rebecca Garrett and AAMT Chief Executive Allan Dougan talk about getting students excited about mathematics, disarming maths intimidation through fun challenges, and the roles your local organisations can play in helping strengthen your teaching and improve your classroom.   Key Links: Rebecca Garrett on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-garrett-5a7210120/ The Mathematical Association of South Australia:https://masaonline.org.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether you have anxious memories of the subject from school, or solve quadratic equations for fun, David Acheson's book will make you look at mathematics afresh. Following on from his previous bestsellers, The Calculus Story and The Wonder Book of Geometry, here Acheson highlights the power of algebra, combining it with arithmetic and geometry to capture the spirit of mathematics. This short book encompasses an astonishing array of ideas and concepts, from number tricks and magic squares to infinite series and imaginary numbers.Acheson's enthusiasm is infectious, and, as ever, a sense of quirkiness and fun pervades the book. But it also seeks to crystallize what is special about mathematics: the delight of discovery; the importance of proof; and the joy of contemplating an elegant solution. Using only the simplest of materials, it conjures up the depth and the magic of the subject.David Acheson, Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, University of Oxford, University of Oxford David Acheson is Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and was the University's first winner of a National Teaching Fellowship in 2004. He was President of the Mathematical Association from 2010 to 2011, and now lectures widely on mathematics to young people and the general public. In 2013, Acheson was awarded an Honorary D.Sc. by the University of East Anglia for his outstanding work in the popularisation of mathematics. His books include 1089 and All That (OUP, 2002), The Calculus Story, (OUP, 2017), and The Wonder Book of Geometry, (OUP, 2020).Buy the book from Wellington Square Bookshop - ​https://wellingtonsquarebooks.indiecommerce.com/book/9780192845085

As maths teachers, how do we ensure we are considering all our students' learning needs? In this episode, Jennifer Bowden from the Mathematical Association of Victoria joins us to discuss the key considerations required to accommodate our students' diverse learning needs. We ask: what do we need to consider in planning, and how do we best approach differentiation? Host: Allan Dougan, Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) Producer: Martin Franklin, East Coast Studio Find all episodes of Strategies for explicit teaching on the Mathematics Hub See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Text for socials: In this episode, we talked to Professor Francis Su about the role of mathematics in flourishing, how mathematics can promote flourishing, and his argument that the purpose of mathematics is to support flourishing.  Francis Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize for college math faculty, and in 2018 he won the Halmos-Ford writing award. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. His 2020 book Mathematics for Human Flourishing, which won the 2021 Euler Book Prize, offers an inclusive vision of what math is, who it's for, and why anyone should learn it. Key conversation points: Francis' definition of flourishing as a “wholeness of being and doing” and the way he distinguishes between flourishing and happiness Francis' argument on the role of mathematics in human flourishing How mathematics can cultivate virtues important for flourishing and which virtues mathematics can cultivate in a particularly strong way Francis' approach towards teaching mathematics in such a way as to cultivate virtues among students of mathematics, such as creativity and an appreciation for beauty Francis' correspondence with Christopher Jackson, an inmate serving a 32-year sentence for armed robberies who started writing to Francis seven years into his sentence, about his passion for mathematics, and the influence this correspondence has had on Francis' work on mathematics and flourishing, and how he sees mathematics  Francis' views on how mathematics education needs to change to cultivate virtues   francissu.com flourishfmpodcast.com 

Edward Frenkel's latest book Love and Math, a New York Times bestseller, was named one of the Best Books of the year by both Amazon and iBooks, and won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. The book reveals a side of math seldom seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. Mathematics, he writes, directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars. Love and Math is also about accessing a new way of thinking, which empowers us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the hidden magic universe of mathematics. Edward Frenkel is Russian born and overcame a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1997 after being on the faculty at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and the winner of the Hermann Weyl Prize in mathematical physics. Frenkel has authored 3 books and over 90 scholarly articles in academic journals and is an electronic music aficionado. Frenkel's research is on the interface of mathematics and quantum physics, with an emphasis on the Langlands Program, which he describes as a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics. twitter.com/edfrenkel www.edwardfrenkel.com www.youtube.com/@edfrenkel Connect with Professor Keating:

In this final episode of 2022, I'm honored to close out the calendar year with Dr. Francis Su as he opens up about his personal math journey, his book "Mathematics for Human Flourishing", and his desire for schools and teachers to adopt an inclusive vision for mathematics. To learn more about Dr. Su's work, you can visit his website at francissu.com or you can follow him on Twitter (@mathyawp). BIO: Francis Su is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, and former president of the Mathematical Association of America. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research is in topological and geometric combinatorics and applications to the sciences, including game theory, voting theory, and the mathematics of fair decisions. He has co-authored numerous papers with undergraduates. He also has a passion for teaching and popularizing mathematics through writing and public engagement. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. From the Mathematical Association of America, he received the 2018 Halmos-Ford award for mathematical writing, and the 2013 Haimo Award for distinguished teaching of college-level mathematics. Three of his articles have been featured in Princeton Press' Best Writing on Mathematics in 2011, 2014, and 2018. He authors the popular Math Fun Facts website and is creator of “MathFeed,” the math news app. His book Mathematics for Human Flourishing, published by Yale University Press, won the 2021 Euler Book Prize. It offers an inclusive vision of what math is, who it's for, and why anyone should learn it.

Helping students understand mathematics is so critical when it comes to their future. We speak with Michaela Epstein, founder of Maths Teacher Circles, to learn some simple ways you can help students find the delight in problem solving. Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education About Michaela Epstein After searching for ways to make professional learning more meaningful, in 2020 Michaela Epstein founded Maths Teacher Circles. Since then, over 700 primary and secondary teachers and school leaders have come together to share expertise and uncover new maths teaching ideas.Michaela has also taught maths at schools in rural and urban areas, served as President of the Mathematical Association of Victoria and on the Council of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. She has also completed Masters research and presented internationally on the intent of the mathematics curriculum.At heart, Michaela is an avid learner and maths enthusiast, with a commitment to helping others reignite their own curiosity for mathematics.Learn more https://www.mathsteachercircles.org/fizzicsed https://twitter.com/MathsCirclesOz https://www.facebook.com/MathsTeacherCircles Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world! https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/ Know an educator who'd love this STEM podcast episode?  Share it!The FizzicsEd podcast is a member of the Australian Educators Online Network (AEON )http://www.aeon.net.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helping students understand mathematics is so critical when it comes to their future. We speak with Michaela Epstein, founder of Maths Teacher Circles, to learn some simple ways you can help students find the delight in problem solving. Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education About Michaela Epstein After searching for ways to make professional learning more meaningful, in 2020 Michaela Epstein founded Maths Teacher Circles. Since then, over 700 primary and secondary teachers and school leaders have come together to share expertise and uncover new maths teaching ideas.Michaela has also taught maths at schools in rural and urban areas, served as President of the Mathematical Association of Victoria and on the Council of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. She has also completed Masters research and presented internationally on the intent of the mathematics curriculum.At heart, Michaela is an avid learner and maths enthusiast, with a commitment to helping others reignite their own curiosity for mathematics.Learn more https://www.mathsteachercircles.org/fizzicsed https://twitter.com/MathsCirclesOz https://www.facebook.com/MathsTeacherCircles Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world! https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/ Know an educator who'd love this STEM podcast episode?  Share it!The FizzicsEd podcast is a member of the Australian Educators Online Network (AEON )http://www.aeon.net.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we feature a thoughtful conversation with Cindy Wyels, Professor of Mathematics at California State Channel Islands and Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America. Cindy grew up in southern California with a small interlude in Australia, she attended Pomona College where she was a student-athlete majoring in math and she earned her PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara. She cares deeply about providing access to a quality education and has co-authored two 5-year, $6m Hispanic-Serving Institution STEM grants to provide academic support for undergraduates studying STEM and pedagogical renewal for faculty. This conversation highlights the importance of saying “yes” to what is most meaningful, of amplifying the voices of students and colleagues, of building intentional networks, and of making exercise, especially in the ocean, a part of every day.

Welcome back to season 2 of HDYK! Today we're talking about how our positionality and the assumptions we make affect our approaches in science, but also thinking about how we turn that positionality into a strength by incorporating diverse viewpoints.  We're starting this season with a great conversation with Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton.  Carrie is a mathematician and associate professor of digital and computational studies at Bates College. She co-founded QUBES, which stands for Quantitative Undergraduate Biology, Education and Synthesis,  a community devoted to open educational materials, to share amongst biology educators, to help bring quantitative concepts into the curriculum. She also chairs the committee for minority participation in mathematics at the Mathematical Association of America, her work centers inclusivity and engagement in math education. A complete transcript of the episode is available here.

Every day, we humans do math. Whether we are obsessed with a logic puzzle on our smartphones or even just calculating a morning alarm that gives you 8 more minutes in bed, our daily lives are full of numbers, quantities, shapes and patterns. And for Francis Su—a writer and Professor of Mathematics and the Former President of the Mathematical Association of America—math is actually one of the things that makes us human. In today's episode he talks about how mathematics can serve as a tool for social justice, how math can enhance our sense of aesthetics and beauty, why math is one of the last refuges of truth in a time where misinformation is rampant, and how we can all learn to cultivate, and even come to love, the little daily mathematics of our lives.

In this episode we are joined by 2 experts in maths education in Australia. The host for the podcast is Allan Dougan, Allan is CEO of the Australian Association of Maths Teachers (AAMT). The AAMT are partnering with Texthelp to further maths education in Australia, so Allan is in a great position to host this session. Allan started his career as a Secondary Mathematics teacher in Scotland. As a celebrated teacher, he held various leadership positions in schools and was Scottish Teacher of the Year Runner Up. After moving to Australia, Allan quickly proved himself as a teacher of merit holding senior leadership positions in NSW schools.Before joining AAMT in December 2020, Allan was Global Head of Education for a large EdTech company - a role that saw Allan present professional learning across the globe and develop a strong knowledge of current and emerging educational practices and pedagogies worldwide. Allan is passionate about relational and relevant education which helps young people become lifelong learners.Allan is joined by Dr. John West, who is an independent mathematics education consultant. He currently works as the WA Project Officer for The University of Adelaide's Maths in Schools Project, a casual lecturer in mathematics education at The University of Western Australia, and a fly-in/fly-out numeracy consultant to Coober Pedy Area School. John currently serves as the President of the Mathematical Association of Western Australia (MAWA) and is the author of a growing range of books for students and teachers including the Problem Solving Handbook (2021) the popular Puzzle Compendium series.So you can see that if anyone can answer the question, what makes a good maths lesson -it's John and Allan. 

In this episode, Kyle and Jon speak with James Tanton, Mathematician-at-Large for the Mathematical Association of America and Founder of the Global Math Project and Ted Coe, NWEA's Director of Content Advocacy and Design. James and Ted hop on the show today to dig into the collective work of a group of mathematics education leaders involving one of the most important yet misunderstood concepts in mathematics: Proportional Relationships.Stick around as we dig into ideas around proportionality and what we can do to help declutter this crucial middle school math concept. You'll Learn: How so much of the mathematics we explore in school is cluttered and what we can do to declutter your proportional relationship unit;How math is not just about the act of doing, but also the act of thinking and habits of thinking; About James' fascination with emu eggs; Why you want to start with the most difficult problem first; and, Why we should be thinking about the words we use and say in math class. Resources: Episode 6: Looking for Joy in Mathematics: An Interview with James Tanton [Podcast]Episode #45 – Global Math Week, Exploding Dots, and James Tanton [Podcast]Proportional Relationships Decluttered - At Last!Common Core State Standards (CCSS)CCSS Progressions DocumentsStacking Paper Problem Based Math Unit

One of the reasons we started this podcast in 2013 was to provide a more realistic picture of mathematics and of the way mathematicians work. On Nov. 19 2021 Gudrun talked to Stephanie Anne Salomone who is Professor and Chair in Mathematics at the University of Portland. She is also Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center and Faculty Athletic Representative at UP. She is an Associate Director of Project NExT, a program of the Mathematical Association of America that provides networking and professional development opportunities to mathematics faculty who are new to our profession. She is a wife and mother of three boys, Milo (13), Jude (10), and Theodore (8). This conversation started on Twitter in the summer of 2021. There Stephanie (under the twitter handle @SitDownPee) and @stanyoshinobu Dr. Stan Yoshinobu invited their fellow mathematicians to the following workshop: Come help us build gender equity in mathematics! Picture a Mathematician workshop led by @stanyoshinobu Dr. Stan Yoshinobu and me, designed for men in math, but all genders welcome. Gudrun was curious to learn more and followed the provided link: Workshop Abstract Gender equity in the mathematical sciences and in the academy broadly is not yet a reality. Women (and people of color, and other historically excluded groups) are confronted with systemic biases, daily experiences, feelings of not being welcome or included, that in the aggregate push them out of the mathematical sciences. This workshop is designed primarily for men in math (although all genders are welcome to participate) to inform and inspire them to better see some of the key issues with empathy, and then to take action in creating a level-playing field in the academy. Workshop activities include viewing “Picture a Scientist” before the workshop, a 2-hour synchronous workshop via zoom, and follow-up discussions via email and Discord server. *All genders welcome AND this workshop is designed for men to be allies. This idea resonated strongly with Gudrun's experiences: Of course women and other groups which are minorities in research have to speak out to fight for their place but things move forward only if people with power join the cause. At the moment people with power in mathematical research mostly means white men. That is true for the US where Stephanie is working as well as in Germany. Allyship is a concept which was introduced by people of colour to name white people fighting for racial justice at their side. Of course, it is a concept which helps in all situations where a group is less powerful than another. Men working for the advancement of non-male mathematicians is strictly necessary in order for equality of chances and a diversity of people in mathematics to be achieved in the next generation. And to be clear: this has nothing to do with counting heads but it is about not ruining the future of mathematics as a discipline by creating obstacles for mathematicians with minoritized identities. The important question is: How is it possible to educate men and especially powerful white men to become allies? The idea of this first workshop designed by Stephanie and Stan was to invite men already interested in learning more and to build a basis with the documentary Picture a scientist (2020). SYNOPSIS PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all. (from the webpage) In this film there are no mathematicians, but the situations in sciences and mathematics are very similar and for that it lends itself to show the situation. In the podcast conversation Gudrun and Stephanie talk about why and in what way the documentary spoke to them. The huge and small obstacles in their own work as women mathematicians which do not make them feel welcome in a field they feel passionate about. The film shows what happens to women in Science. It shows also men in different roles. Obviously there are the bullies. Then there are the bystanders. There are universities which allow women to be hired and give them the smallest space available. But there are also men who consider themselves friends of their female collaegues who cannot believe that they did not notice how the behaviour of other men (and their own behavior in not taking a side). Seeing this play out over the course of the film is not a comfortable watch, and perhaps because of this discomfort, we hope to build empathy. On the other hand, there is a story of women scientists who noticed that they were not treated as well as their male colleagues and who found each other to fight for office space and the recognition of their work. They succeded a generation ago. The general idea of the workshop was to start with the documentary and to talk about different people and their role in the film in order to take them as prototypical for roles which we happen to observe in our life and which we might happen to play. This discussion in groups was moderated and guided in order to make this a safe space for everyone. Stephanie spoke about how we have to let men grow into their responsibility to speak out against a hostile atmosphere at university created mostly by men. In the workshop it was possible to first develop and then train for possible responses in situations which ask for men stepping in as an ally. The next iteration of the workshop Picture a Mathematician will be on May 11. Biography: Stephanie Salomone earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA in 2005 and joined the faculty at the University of Portland that year. She serves as Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center at UP, as well as the Faculty Athletic Representative. She is an Associate Director of Project NExT, a national professional development program for new higher-education mathematics faculty. She was the PI on the NSF REFLECT program, advancing the use of evidence-based practices in STEM teaching at UP and the use of peer-observation for formative assessment of teaching, and has managed a combined $1.6 million as the PI on a subaward of the Western Regional Noyce Alliance grant and as PI of the NSF Noyce Program at UP. She is on the Board of Directors for Saturday Academy, a local 501c3 whose mission is to engage children in hands-on STEM learning. Dr. Salomone is the recipient of UP's 2009 Outstanding Teaching Award and the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Academy of Sciences Outstanding Educator in STEM Higher Education Award. Literature and further information Allyship: What It Means to Be an Ally, Tulane university, School of social work Guide to allyship Ernest, Reinholz, and Shah: Hidden Competence: women's mathematical participation in public and private classroom spaces, Educ Stud Math 102, 153–172 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-019-09910-w J.R. Cimpian, T.H. Kimand, Z.T. McDermott: Understanding persistent gender gaps in STEM, Science 368, Issue 6497, 1317-1319 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba7377 S.J. Ceci and W.M. Williams: Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science PNAS 108 3157–3162 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1014871108 Inquirybased learning site Equatiy and teaching math Blog post by Stan Yoshinobu Podcasts Mathematically uncensored Podcast

This talk is Francis Su's final speech as the president of the Mathematical Association of America(MAA). If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe. And, if you're interested in more content from Veritas, check out our Beyond the Forum podcast. Visit veritas.org to learn more about the mission of the Veritas Forum and find more resources to explore the ideas that shape our lives.

One of the reasons we started this podcast in 2013 was to provide a more realistic picture of mathematics and of the way mathematicians work. On Nov. 19 2021 Gudrun talked to Stephanie Anne Salomone who is Professor and Chair in Mathematics at the University of Portland. She is also Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center and Faculty Athletic Representative at UP. She is an Associate Director of Project NExT, a program of the Mathematical Association of America that provides networking and professional development opportunities to mathematics faculty who are new to our profession. She is a wife and mother of three boys, Milo (13), Jude (10), and Theodore (8). This conversation started on Twitter in the summer of 2021. There Stephanie (under the twitter handle @SitDownPee) and @stanyoshinobu Dr. Stan Yoshinobu invited their fellow mathematicians to the following workshop: Come help us build gender equity in mathematics! Picture a Mathematician workshop led by @stanyoshinobu Dr. Stan Yoshinobu and me, designed for men in math, but all genders welcome. Gudrun was curious to learn more and followed the provided link: Workshop Abstract Gender equity in the mathematical sciences and in the academy broadly is not yet a reality. Women (and people of color, and other historically excluded groups) are confronted with systemic biases, daily experiences, feelings of not being welcome or included, that in the aggregate push them out of the mathematical sciences. This workshop is designed primarily for men in math (although all genders are welcome to participate) to inform and inspire them to better see some of the key issues with empathy, and then to take action in creating a level-playing field in the academy. Workshop activities include viewing “Picture a Scientist” before the workshop, a 2-hour synchronous workshop via zoom, and follow-up discussions via email and Discord server. *All genders welcome AND this workshop is designed for men to be allies. This idea resonated strongly with Gudrun's experiences: Of course women and other groups which are minorities in research have to speak out to fight for their place but things move forward only if people with power join the cause. At the moment people with power in mathematical research mostly means white men. That is true for the US where Stephanie is working as well as in Germany. Allyship is a concept which was introduced by people of colour to name white people fighting for racial justice at their side. Of course, it is a concept which helps in all situations where a group is less powerful than another. Men working for the advancement of non-male mathematicians is strictly necessary in order for equality of chances and a diversity of people in mathematics to be achieved in the next generation. And to be clear: this has nothing to do with counting heads but it is about not ruining the future of mathematics as a discipline by creating obstacles for mathematicians with minoritized identities. The important question is: How is it possible to educate men and especially powerful white men to become allies? The idea of this first workshop designed by Stephanie and Stan was to invite men already interested in learning more and to build a basis with the documentary Picture a scientist (2020). SYNOPSIS PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all. (from the webpage) In this film there are no mathematicians, but the situations in sciences and mathematics are very similar and for that it lends itself to show the situation. In the podcast conversation Gudrun and Stephanie talk about why and in what way the documentary spoke to them. The huge and small obstacles in their own work as women mathematicians which do not make them feel welcome in a field they feel passionate about. The film shows what happens to women in Science. It shows also men in different roles. Obviously there are the bullies. Then there are the bystanders. There are universities which allow women to be hired and give them the smallest space available. But there are also men who consider themselves friends of their female collaegues who cannot believe that they did not notice how the behaviour of other men (and their own behavior in not taking a side). Seeing this play out over the course of the film is not a comfortable watch, and perhaps because of this discomfort, we hope to build empathy. On the other hand, there is a story of women scientists who noticed that they were not treated as well as their male colleagues and who found each other to fight for office space and the recognition of their work. They succeded a generation ago. The general idea of the workshop was to start with the documentary and to talk about different people and their role in the film in order to take them as prototypical for roles which we happen to observe in our life and which we might happen to play. This discussion in groups was moderated and guided in order to make this a safe space for everyone. Stephanie spoke about how we have to let men grow into their responsibility to speak out against a hostile atmosphere at university created mostly by men. In the workshop it was possible to first develop and then train for possible responses in situations which ask for men stepping in as an ally. The next iteration of the workshop Picture a Mathematician will be on May 11. Biography: Stephanie Salomone earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA in 2005 and joined the faculty at the University of Portland that year. She serves as Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Director of the STEM Education and Outreach Center at UP, as well as the Faculty Athletic Representative. She is an Associate Director of Project NExT, a national professional development program for new higher-education mathematics faculty. She was the PI on the NSF REFLECT program, advancing the use of evidence-based practices in STEM teaching at UP and the use of peer-observation for formative assessment of teaching, and has managed a combined $1.6 million as the PI on a subaward of the Western Regional Noyce Alliance grant and as PI of the NSF Noyce Program at UP. She is on the Board of Directors for Saturday Academy, a local 501c3 whose mission is to engage children in hands-on STEM learning. Dr. Salomone is the recipient of UP's 2009 Outstanding Teaching Award and the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Academy of Sciences Outstanding Educator in STEM Higher Education Award. Literature and further information Allyship: What It Means to Be an Ally, Tulane university, School of social work Guide to allyship Ernest, Reinholz, and Shah: Hidden Competence: women's mathematical participation in public and private classroom spaces, Educ Stud Math 102, 153–172 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-019-09910-w J.R. Cimpian, T.H. Kimand, Z.T. McDermott: Understanding persistent gender gaps in STEM, Science 368, Issue 6497, 1317-1319 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba7377 S.J. Ceci and W.M. Williams: Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science PNAS 108 3157–3162 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1014871108 Inquirybased learning site Equatiy and teaching math Blog post by Stan Yoshinobu Podcasts Mathematically uncensored Podcast

Today we feature a heart-felt conversation with Dr. Tensia Soto, Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. As a very small child, she grew up in a 2-room adobe home in Mexico. She moved to Nebraska soon after and lived on a farm with her 8 brothers and sisters. Tensia earned her undergraduate and masters degrees in mathematics education at Chadron State College. She earned her PhD in mathematics education from the University of Northern Colorado. Her research focuses on the teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics where she embraces an Embodied Cognition perspective in her work. She currently serves as Associate Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America and recently received the MAA Haimo Award for Distinguished University Teaching. This conversation with Tensia underscores the influential role of an advisor, the importance of setting goals and outlining plans to achieve them, and the balance of work and care in a life. So, please join us as we talk with Tensia.

Today we have an exciting conversation with Dr. Erica Flapan, the editor in chief of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, the official magazine of the society that is distributed to more than 30,000 colleagues every month. Erica earned her Ph.D. from the University of Madison Wisconsin and served on the faculty at Pomona College for 32 years . While there, she authored and co-authored several books, the titles of two of them show her breadth as a mathematician, When Topology Meets Chemistry and Number Theory: A Lively Introduction with Proofs, Applications, and stories. The Mathematical Association of America has recognized Erica's teaching with the Haimo Award and the Association for Women in Mathematics celebrated her outstanding mentorship of women with the M. Gweneth Humphreys award. In this conversation, you will hear about the power of a personal refrain, the role of a supportive family, and the importance of discovering and leveraging personal skills. So, please join us as we talk with Dr. Erica Flapan.Pomona College webpage: https://pages.pomona.edu/~elf04747/AMS announcement of Erica Flapan as Notices Editor: http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=4010Erica's book, Knots, Molecules, and the Universe: An Introduction to Topology: https://bookstore.ams.org/mbk-96

Louise Pennington In this episode of Oxford Ed Chat, we welcome Louise Pennington and Adam Gaskell to chat about supporting secondary transition in maths. Louise and Adam discuss removing barriers to maths learning, the benefits of using manipulatives and the meaning of mastery.  Louise Pennington is Professional Development lead for Oxford University Press, previous teacher, specialist maths teacher and local authority SEND Team lead working with both primary and secondary schools, students and parents. She is a Numicon Author and vice-chair of the Mathematical Association's joint primary group. Louise tweets at @pdLouiseP  Adam Gaskell is Head of Mathematics at a Leicestershire secondary school, NPQML and NCETM Mastery Advocate. Adam tweets at @MrGTeach  Numicon Big Ideas provides engaging and confidence building activities for embedding the key concepts in upper Key Stage 2, offering extra support in Maths as students settle in.  Find out more about resources to support transition to secondary school here.  

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A quote by the Mathematical Association of America says, “It's time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases.” This intriguing statement makes us think what math is and its role in general. To help us answer these questions, Patrick Donohoe brings on  in a series of episodes that revolve around the principles of math and how math specifically relates to finance. Todd is one of Patrick's original mentors and the CEO and Founder at Numbers Analytic, Inc. Today, they discuss why most of the significant innovations resulted from accidents and also touch on the importance of mathematics and curiosity. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Join The Wealth Standard community today:

Join Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) and I as we reflect on what we learned from Day 3 of the Mathematical Association 2021 virtual conference, discussing topics such as: Colin Foster's brilliant opening keynote about what it means to "understand" something Angles as a measure of turn TIMMS data Good tasks and how to adapt them And more! You can access all the links on the episode show notes page here: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/conference-takeaways-mathematical-association-conference-2021-day-3/

Join Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) and I as we reflect on what we learned from Day 2 of the Mathematical Association 2021 virtual conference, discussing topics such as: Hannah Fry's keynote on communication Transition from GCSE to A Level this summer Talking maths with your children Parental support for learning in general My session on misconceptions with area and perimeter And more! You can access all the links on the episode show notes page here: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/conference-takeaways-mathematical-association-conference-2021-day-2/

Join Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) and I as we reflect on what we learned from Day 1 of the Mathematical Association 2021 virtual conference, discussing topics such as: Black mathematicians, Creating a Low Threshold High Ceiling Classroom, What makes a good task?, Misconceptions Paper folding Ratio and proportion Mathematical diagrams Ofsted You can access all the links on the episode show notes page here: http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/conference-takeaways-mathematical-association-conference-2021-day-1/

Learn about an artificial sun that’s hotter than our actual sun; whether math really is a universal language; and what words like “fresh” really tell you about how fancy your food is.  South Korean researchers created an artificial sun that's hotter than our actual sun by Grant Currin Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees. (2020, December 24). Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2020-12-korean-artificial-sun-world-sec-long.html  Nield, D. (2020). South Korea’s “Artificial Sun” Just Set a New World Record For High-Temperature Plasma. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/south-korea-s-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma  ‌Tala, T., & Garbet, X. (2006). Physics of Internal Transport Barriers. Comptes Rendus Physique, 7(6), 622–633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2006.06.005  Delbert, C. (2020, December 28). Korea’s Artificial Sun Just Ran for 20 Astonishing Seconds. Popular Mechanics; Popular Mechanics. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35084113/korea-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-runs-for-20-seconds/  Tokamak. (2015). ITER. https://www.iter.org/mach/Tokamak  Home: 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2020) | IAEA. (2019, December 6). Iaea.org. https://www.iaea.org/events/fec-2020  Is math really a universal language? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from John) PBS Idea Channel. (2013). Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation? | Idea Channel | PBS [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNymweHW4E  ‌Baidou, Alain. (2006). Briefings on Existence. State University of New York Press. https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/769564/8b787039810debb75794401980b224d6.pdf  Madden, J. J., Lakoff, G., & Núñez, R. E. (2002, August). Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being. ResearchGate; Mathematical Association of America. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239547225_Where_Mathematics_Comes_From_How_the_Embodied_Mind_Brings_Mathematics_Into_Being  Thaller, M. (2019, March 7). The evolution of mathematics, from agriculture to quantum mechanics. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/videos/mathematics-universal-language  What Words Like "Fresh" Really Tell You About How Fancy Your Food Is by Arika Okrent Jurafsky, D. (2014). The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. W. W. Norton & Company. https://amzn.to/3rgRJbY  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In memory of Dr. Charlotte Chell, Professor Emerita of Mathematics and Computer Science at Carthage College, we are replaying this Morning Show conversation dating back to the years when Professor Chell served on the board of directors of Wisconsin Public Radio, of which WGTD is an affiliate. Professor Chell was the first woman to serve as Wisconsin governor of the Mathematical Association of America, a recipient of the school's Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2010 was given the Carthage Flame, the school's highest honor.

On this episode, Dixie and Stephanie are joined by Professor of Mathematics Michael P. Starbird to talk about his book the Five Elements of Effective Thinking and the practical applications of his principles in the classroom to encourage positive change and growth in students. Thanks for joining us for this valuable and fun discussion! ABOUT THE GUEST Michael Starbird is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin. He has been at UT his whole career except for leaves, including to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He has received more than fifteen teaching awards including the Mathematical Association of America's 2007 national teaching award, the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor statewide award, the UT Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, and most of the UT-wide teaching awards. He has given hundreds of lectures and dozens of workshops on effective teaching and effective thinking. He has produced DVD courses for The Teaching Company in the Great Courses Series on calculus, statistics, probability, geometry, and the joy of thinking. He co-authored, with Edward Burger, the textbook The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking and has co-authored two Inquiry Based Learning textbooks. He produced an edX MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) titled Effective Thinking Through Mathematics. His recent book with co-author Edward Burger is The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking. PRODUCER'S NOTE: This episode was recorded on October 16th, 2020 via Zoom. CREDITS Assistant Producers/Hosts: Stephanie Seidel Holmsten, Dixie Stanforth (Intro theme features additional PTF fellows Patrick Davis, Keith Brown, David Vanden Bout) Intro and Outro Music by: Charlie Harper (Additional background music by Charlie Harper, Michelle Daniel, Blue Dot Sessions, Scott Holmes, and Ketsa) www.charlieharpermusic.com Samples from movie School of Rock taken from YouTube. Sound bites of Sherlock Holmes from YouTube. Produced and Edited by: Michelle S Daniel Creator & Executive Producer: Mary Neuburger Connect with us! Facebook: /texasptf Twitter: @TexasPTF Instagram: @texasptf and @texasptf_pod Website: https://texasptf.org DISCLAIMER: The Other Side of Campus is a member of the Texas Podcast Network, brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin. https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/1/1ed1b736-a1fa-4ae4-b346-90d58dfbc8a4/4GSxOOOU.png Special Guest: Michael P. Starbird.

Trump leaving the hospital is reckless. Mathematical Association of America says math is create by humans and is therefore racist. Trump joyride is racist. Have to delete all articles on science on twitter. Twitter is garbage. Go chase the COVID bug for herd immunity if you’re reckless. Took a covid test, who was the initial spreader at the ACB event? Why are the girls in the White House wearing such short skirts. What is God saying when he looks down here? Man should not have been chosen to have souls. We kill so much in his name. We’re destroying the environment. There is truth in the world. Linus Pauling. How to improve your immune system. Need zinc, foods high in zinc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Carver Cast, we interviewed Francis Su, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. Francis Su writes about the dignity of human beings and the wonder of mathematical teaching. He is the Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and a former president of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize for college math faculty, and in 2018 he won the Halmos-Ford writing award for a speech that inspired his book Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020). His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. -- The Carver Cast engages with Christian faculty in higher education and highlights the work of those faculty to bridge connections between university, church, and society. In doing so, it seeks to disrupt the perceptions that Christians are “anti-intellectual” and that higher education is “anti-Christian.” Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion with faculty around the country, with mediocre production quality but excellent content! Penina Laker and John Inazu are Carver Project faculty fellows and members of the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, where Laker is assistant professor of communication design and Inazu is a professor of law and religion.

Today we have with us Glen Van Brummelen, who serves as Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Dean, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences at Trinity Western University. Glen is a historian of mathematics and astronomy in ancient and medieval cultures, sometimes described as the only historian of trigonometry in the world. He is author of The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry(Princeton, 2009), Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry(Princeton, 2013), and Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction(Oxford, 2020). He has served twice as president of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Prior to TWU, he was a founding faculty member and mathematics division coordinator of Quest University Canada. He won the Mathematical Association of America’s Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2016, and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship in 2017. https://www.twu.ca/academics/faculty-natural-applied-sciencesSupport the show (https://www.twu.ca/donate-now)

Francis Su is a professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, he’s a past president of the Mathematical Association of America, he’s won multiple awards for teaching, and he’s the author of a new book Mathematics for Human Flourishing.  In this episode we chat with Francis about how learning mathematics can help us become better human beings; how can mathematics help us become better at exploring truth and justice; and, how to change your assessment to reflect what you value. You’ll Learn:  How learning mathematics can help become a better human being.  How can mathematics help us become better at exploring truth and justice. How to change your assessment to reflect what you value.  Resources:  Mathematics for Human Flourishing Francissu.com  Mudd Math Fun Facts - 200+ Warm-Up Problems

Episode SummaryEveryone loves puzzles, and our guest on this episode of the Sydcast is a master. Pete Winkler is a Dartmouth College professor, author, mathematician, scientist, and puzzle master at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City. He's playful, engaging, and ingenious. He teaches the art and science of deciphering puzzles in everyday life to students, hedge fund managers, and senior executives, and in this episode of The Sydcast, he teaches all of us a thing or two about puzzles and life. Syd FinkelsteinSyd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein's research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life. Peter WinklerPeter Winkler is William Morrill Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College. He is the author of about 160 research papers and holds a dozen patents in marine navigation, cryptography, holography, gaming, optical networking, and distributed computing. His research is primarily in combinatorics, probability, and the theory of computing, with forays into statistical physics. He is a winner of the Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford and David P. Robbins prizes.For the academic year 2019-2020, Dr. Winkler is serving as Distinguished Chair of the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National Museum of Mathematics.After getting an AB summa cum laude from Harvard, Dr. Winkler went to work for the government and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy. After serving, he began graduate work at Yale and wrote his PhD thesis in mathematical logic. He took academic jobs at Stanford and then Emory, becoming professor and chairman of Mathematics and Computer Science. While there he solved a notorious problem that had arisen at Bell Labs, and was offered jobs at Bellcore and then Bell Labs, where he became Director of Fundamental Mathematics Research. In 2003-4 he spent a year at the Institute of Advanced Study before moving to his present position at Dartmouth.Along the way Dr. Winkler has written two collections of mathematical puzzles (Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection and Mathematical Mind-Benders) and a book on cryptography in the game of bridge (Bridge at the Enigma Club), which was a runner up for the 2011 Master Point Press Book Of The Year award. He's working on a new puzzle book.Insights from this episode:Details on different puzzles and what they test and how people benefit from puzzling.Benefits of reader feedback including better solutions and ideas for new puzzles.Strategies on teaching students, getting them interested in why versus how, and making math fun.How to use math and puzzles to improve your reasoning and intuition in other aspects of life.How to design a good puzzle and what makes a good puzzle according to Pete. Quotes from the show:On a particular puzzle question: “What makes this a beautiful question is that reasonable, rational thought leads to the wrong answer.” – Peter Winkler“It's easier for people to learn how to do something, than it is to learn why it works.” – Peter WinklerOn getting students involved in learning: “They get that spark and then later they actually want to understand it better.” – Syd FinkelsteinOn associating math with fun: “If we could just make that association and do no more, I think that would be a major accomplishment.” – Peter Winkler“Puzzles help us to figure out where our intuition is likely to go off the rails.” – Peter Winkler“Having something there when you need it, is just as good as having something that is there all the time.” – Peter WinklerOn superstition: “There's evidence in various places that when you think something is true you behave in a way that is consistent with that.” – Syd Finkelstein“What makes a puzzle a good puzzle is not being easy or hard, it's being clever, it's being engaging, it's being fun.” – Peter Winkler“Most things about leadership are not linear.” – Syd Finkelstein“I have a theory that puzzles actually help you think more about finding the truth and a little bit less about arguing a point of view before you think about it.” – Peter WinklerStay Connected: Syd FinkelsteinWebsite: http://thesydcast.comLinkedIn: Sydney FinkelsteinTwitter: @sydfinkelsteinFacebook: The SydcastInstagram: The Sydcast Peter WinklerDartmouth College: Professor Peter WinklerMuseum of Mathematics: https://momath.orgSubscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Stitcher, iTunes, and Spotify. This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry (www.podcastlaundry.com)

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Over the past seven years, children have been taken from public schools in Tampa Bay more than 7,500 times and temporarily placed in mental health facilities.They often leave campus handcuffed in the back of police cruisers. Some are as young as 6. The numbers are climbing across Florida under the Baker Act, a 48-year-old state law used to involuntarily commit people deemed a danger to themselves or others.Florida lawmakers have done little to address problems or increase accountability. The state does not even track what's happening in schools. A database built by the Times shows the rate of commitments for local students rose 35 percent in just the last five years.The increase was even more pronounced in Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties, where the rate rose more than 75 percent. There are likely many more cases of Baker Act commitments on public school campuses than the Times database was able to capture. The absence of a reliable state system to measure how the Baker Act is used in schools makes it nearly impossible to get a complete and accurate count.https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2019/12/10/floridas-flawed-baker-act-rips-thousands-of-kids-from-school/According to Inside Higher Ed, Over the last five years, internationalization of higher education and research has become one of the key policy priorities for the government of India. While Narendra Modi government's major initiatives such as the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)  and Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) have aimed at tapping the talent pool of foreign academics to improve the competitiveness of the Indian system, programmes such as Institutions of Eminence have focussed on creating world-class teaching and research institutions. The government had also rolled out another major scheme, Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP), this year to provide international training for Indian academics in academic and administrative leadership in partnership with selected foreign universities. A draft of the new National Education Policy had a number of major recommendations, including the following:Simplified visa and Foreigner Registration Regional Office (FRRO) processes and internship policies for international students; Additional funds for Indian universities that aim to become attractive destinations for international students to develop specially designed courses. Special schemes that offer research scholarships to students from developing countries; and Select universities (those from among the top 200 universities in the world) would be permitted to operate in India. A legislative framework facilitating such entry would be put in place. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/world-view/internationalisation-indian-higher-educationUS News and World Report has published an article on a fresh attack on standardized testing in admissions. Students, parents, public school districts and education advocacy groups sued the University of California system Tuesday, arguing that its admission requirement that applicants submit an SAT or ACT score is illegal, unconstitutional and discriminatory.The first-of-its-kind lawsuit – no other has directly challenged the use of SAT or ACT scores – could have an outsized impact on the future of college entrance exams.The lawsuit, filed by Public Counsel, the country's largest non-profit law firm, and The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, an advocacy group that opposes the use of standardized testing, lays bare the concerns about unequal access and preparation for college entrance exams harbored by a growing chorus of critics. If the University of California system – the largest in the country and one that serves more than 280,000 students and 10 campuses – drops the requirement, it could set off a chain reaction that puts the fate of college entrance exams on the line. https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-12-10/lawsuit-against-university-of-california-system-challenges-sat-act-admissions-requirementIn the UK, An education union has called for a delay in the introduction of the Conservatives' new vocational qualifications amid concerns about student recruitment and the tight timescale, according to reporting by the GuardianT-levels, which are intended to provide a vocational alternative to A-levels, are due to be taught for the first time in September 2020, but a report says the programme faces serious challenges because of the large-scale changes involved and a lack of awareness among pupils and their parents.There is also concern about progression routes following T-levels, with many leading universities yet to recognise the qualifications, for which full course specifications will not be available until next March.The first three T-levels in education and childcare, construction and digital are due to be taught by 50 providers from next September. What makes them particularly challenging to organise is their sheer scale. The total time for a T-level is expected, on average, to be about 1,800 hours over the two years, including an industry placement. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/10/t-level-courses-may-not-be-ready-by-2020-warns-education-unionThe Washington Examiner reports that An Education Department investigation revealed universities failed to report more than a billion dollars in foreign funding, which officials believe is only a sliver of the unreported overseas donations flowing onto campuses. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told the Washington Examiner she had launched a preliminary investigation into six universities but already turned up an alarming $1.3 billion in foreign funding over the past seven years from nations such as China, Russia, and Qatar that the schools hadn't told the federal government about, despite their legal requirement to do so. The investigation showed one university had a relationship with Kaspersky Lab, a Russia-based cybersecurity company whose products the Trump administration has banned government agencies from using amid concerns it worked with Russian intelligence. The attorney also cited court filings that show Qatari donations are made strategically to advance Qatari interests and that secrecy is often part of the agreement in receiving those funds. The Federal Register shows the Department of Education sent letters to Georgetown and Texas A&M in June, Cornell and Rutgers in July, and the University of Maryland and MIT in September, expressing concern that reporting done by the universities “may not fully capture” all their foreign funding. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/just-scratching-the-surface-education-department-uncovered-1-3b-from-foreign-countries-on-campusTech Crunch reports that a math-savvy duo have launched a startup designed to tackle the worldwide problem of math anxiety. Mathematics Anxiety (MA) is defined in research literature as feelings of concern, tension or nervousness experienced in combination with math in ordinary life and in academic situations. Some 17 million adults in the U.K. (49% of the working-age) have a numeracy level expected from primary school children. This results in a £20 billion loss to the U.K. economy a year, according to one study, and many studies have shown the issue to be prevalent across the world.The origins of Math Anxiety are rooted in the prevalence of accumulated negative math learning experiences by around six years old. So if you could get kids comfortable with math by age six, then you'd boost the economy and society. The startup, Funexpected, plans to address this by using a “multisensory” iOS app offering a new approach to learning. By late October this year, the startup had been selected as an ed tech innovator for the EDUCATE programme led by the UCL Institute of Education, considered by many to be the leading U.K. research accelerator into ed tech. The bootstrapped startup, founded by Natalia Pereldik (after she left investment banking) together with friend Alexandra Kazilo, has now seen its app downloaded more than 35,000 times in over 50 countries in four weeks after the launch. https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/09/can-a-games-platform-tackle-kids-anxiety-about-having-to-do-math/According to University Business, McGraw-Hill yesterday published a new report on college placement, offering an in-depth look at the latest research and best practices that colleges are using to effectively assess and support students at one of their most critical educational moments. The report, “Evaluating Math Placement Best Practices: Multiple Measures and ALEKS PPL,” examines a variety of placement methods and the relative efficacy of each approach. The report also details new research that supports the effectiveness of adaptive technology, such as the ALEKS PPL solution, to identify and repair math skills, which advances math placement and increases course success for all student groups.Nationwide, millions of college students are incorrectly placed in math courses each year, with many of these placements based on a single standardized placement test. With the goal of more accurately placing students, institutions have begun using alternative methods, including multiple measures. While additional metrics paint a broader picture of a student, compiling these metrics can often be costly and inadvertently put certain students at a disadvantage. According to the Mathematical Association of America, only 50% of students pass college-level math each year. However, an analysis of more than 80,000 students at more than 40 two- and four-year institutions placed in classes using the artificially intelligent ALEKS PPL showed it to be a stronger predictor of success, with a 76% average student success rate in college-level math courses and higher. https://universitybusiness.com/new-report-from-mcgraw-hill-examines-best-practices-for-accurate-college-math-placement/

Faculty beginning their teaching careers often rely on the teaching methods that were inflicted on them when they were students. These practices are not always consistent with evidence on how we learn. In this episode, for Assistant Professors from the Math Department at SUNY-Oswego join us to discuss how our math department is transforming its instructional practices through the use of professional development opportunities provided by the Mathematical Association of America.  A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.  

---------------------- Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson Twitter: @slowdragremedy Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ---------------------- “20% Amnesia”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljVEbHw2mg Elvis Costello Wiki Resource Page: "20% Amnesia": http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/20%25_Amnesia  Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2019/09/26/episode-08-20-amnesia/  References: Strip Jack Naked: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/nov/22/rules-card-games-beggar-neighbour  “Beggar My Neighbour” Marc. M. Paulhus. Source: The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Feb., 1999), pp. 162-165 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America https://www.jstor.org/stable/2589054 Boot Boy definition and examples from the Cambridge dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/boot-boy  A Hundred Years of Windsors but Still the Queen is partly German: https://www.ft.com/content/b80a9dde-f1f0-11e6-95ee-f14e55513608  Tramp the Dirt Down: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Tramp_The_Dirt_Down How to Be Dumb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q7sFEe_H-o Rich Hall QI quote: https://www.quotes.net/mquote/833502 The difference between destiny and destination: https://wikidiff.com/destination/destiny Elvis Costello continues to sing “Tramp the Dirt Down” https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tramp-the-dirt-down-elvis-costello-defends-decision-to-continue-singing-anti-thatcher-songs-8706270.html Glastonbury Festival 2013 “Tramp the Dirt Down” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZ8PormR1w Gorbachev and Cinderella and Major: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-07-17-1991198031-story.html  Pick up the phone! (90s adult sex chat line ad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdlb5yv5xo So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo "20% Amnesia" Lyrics "What is your destiny?" the policewoman said 20% amnesia The word that she wanted was "destination," I'm afraid 20% amnesia This is your future boy, this is your fate 20% amnesia And you're obsolete and they can't afford to educate you 20% amnesia In his bed-time boot-boy jersey Ringing up some fantasy tart Give me strength or give me mercy Life intimidates art Give me strength or give me mercy Don't let me lose heart From rage to anaesthesia 20% amnesia Were you passed out on the sofa? 20% amnesia While justice was bartered by a drunken oaf? 20% amnesia This is all your glorious country thinks of your life 20% amnesia Strip-jack-naked with a Stanley knife 20% amnesia So the German Queen went home again But she couldn't find forgiveness They made a fist of the hand of friendship But it's only business Give me strength or give me mercy Don't let me lose heart From rage to anaesthesia 20% amnesia The wine you drink has never seen a grape And now your sci-fi suit has lost its shape But its a dangerous game that comedy plays Sometimes it tells you the truth Sometimes it delays it Think back, think back if you still can When the trumpet sounded and the world began Somebody said "We must have won" So they started burying the bogeyman Mister Gorbachev came cap in hand 20% amnesia From a bankrupt land to a bankrupt land 20% amnesia Mister Gorbachev and some other fella 20% amnesia Were taken to a show called "Cinderella" 20% amnesia It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mystery 20% amnesia It was calculated and the rest is history 20% amnesia You don't have to listen to me That's the triumph of free will When there are promises to break And dreams to kill Give me strength or give me mercy Don't let me lose heart From rage to anaesthesia 20% amnesia

Math is part of our genetic makeup, and history proves it to be true! From 30,000 years ago to today, math has guided us, inspired us, and fueled our scientific progress.  For more information on the ancient Mesopotamian clay tablet, you can see them up close on Dr. Bill Casselman's website at http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/ybc/ybc.html.  You can also read more about the tablet at Mathematical Association of America at https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/the-best-known-old-babylonian-tablet

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD.

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD.

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD.

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD.

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD. Music from https://filmmusic.io "Wholesome" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Glitter Blast" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Continue Life" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Divertimento K131" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) “Modern Jazz Samba” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) “Happy Boy End Theme” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) “Aurea Carmina” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD. Music credits to: "Fanfare 2" by primordiality https://freesound.org/people/primordiality/sounds/78823/ Licensed under CC AL "Adventurers" by Music Note http://www.music-note.jp/bgm/mp3/2014/0316/adventurers.MP3

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD. Music from https://filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Running Fanfare" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Past Sadness" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Beauty Flow" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Girls Talk Math is a 2-week summer program with the goal to promote women in math. Girls work in groups to understand mathematical topics outside of their usual high school curriculum as well as research and record a podcast about a famous female mathematician. These podcasts are the work of the attendees of the 2019 Girls Talk Math Program at the University of Maryland in College Park (UMD). They were produced by Rey Sasaki, Sarah Burnett, and Cara Peters. The program is sponsored by the Women and Mathematics Tensor Grant from the Mathematical Association of American, the Math Dept. and AMSC program at UMD. Music from https://filmmusic.io “Wholesome” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) "Rising Tide" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Andrew Beveridge is a professor of mathematics at Macalester College. He specializes in combinatorics, graph theory, and network science. Andrew received his BA from Williams College and his PhD from Yale University. He won the 2015 Carl B. Allendoefer Award from the Mathematical Association of America for his article, “The Sorting Hat Goes to College”. He created a network system for the famous TV show, “Game of Thrones” which can be seen below. https://networkofthrones.wordpress.com Tune in for our killer discussion about his career, the importance and application of mathematics, and network science.

Antonia Malchik is a writer who is fascinated with what it means to be human. In her new book, A Walking Life, she delves into the topic of community and how we can boost our creativity, our mental and physical health and our freedom, through the natural act of walking. She wrote the book while on a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, in Alberta, Canada. Antonia previously worked as a journalist in Austria and Australia, and currently lives in Montana with her family. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: https://antoniamalchik.com Book: A Walking Life Most Influential Person David Bressoud, Former President, Mathematical Association of America Effect on Emotions Made me more aware of them I am very conscious now about how high my anxiety levels are I'm wildly curious about the role of emotions in the physical body Thoughts on Breathing Everytime I get nervous, everytime my kids get tantrums I just say Okay… I can feel my heart slow down and the anxiety reduced. It's absolutely necessary Suggested Resources Book: Instead of an actual book, I recommend Walking Meditation Cards from Donja de Groot in the Netherlands: http://dao2change.com/Contact/ She doesn't list them on her website. I just emailed and asked if I could buy a set. App: Headspace App: Laurie Brown's Pondercast podcast. It's not a meditation app per se, but when I can't sleep in the middle of the night listening to it takes me deep into questions of existence and helps shake off anxieties. I recommend it to friends as a treatment for the “3 am crazies.” Bullying Story It was my home that was not a safe place. Although we have a different relationship now, my mother was very emotionally and psychologically abusive. Free Gift Get the ‘Release Your Overwhelm' Guided Meditation for only $4.99. Bruce Langford helps you abandon your inner blocks. Surrender your stress. Become more focused and raise your personal level of contentment. Achieve more with increased concentration. Download this full-length 30 minute guided meditation by Bruce Langford.www.MindfulnessMode.com/release

One of the most important insights in the history of science is the fact that complex behavior can arise from the undirected movements of small, simple systems. Despite the fact that we know this, we’re still working to truly understand it — to uncover the mechanisms by which, and conditions under which, complexity can emerge from simplicity. (Coincidentally, a new feature in Quanta on this precise topic came out while this episode was being edited.) Steven Strogatz is a leading researcher in this field, a pioneer both in the subject of synchronization and in that of small-world networks. He’s also an avid writer and wide-ranging thinker, so we also talk about problems with the way we educate young scientists, and the importance of calculus, the subject of his new book.             Support Mindscape on Patreon or Paypal. Steven Strogatz received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard, and is currently the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell. His work has ranged over a wide variety of topics in mathematical biology, nonlinear dynamics, networks, and complex systems. He is the author of a number of books, including SYNC, The Joy of x, and most recently Infinite Powers. His awards include teaching prizes at MIT and Cornell, as well as major prizes from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Lewis Thomas Prize. Web site Cornell web page Google scholar page Amazon author page Wikipedia TED talk on synchronization Twitter

Dr. Talithia Williams is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Associate Dean for Research and Experiential Learning at Harvey Mudd College. In addition, Talithia is Host of the PBS Series NOVA Wonders and author of the book Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics. Talithia is a mathematician who does disease modeling. She has been working with the World Health Organization to create models of the rates at which groups of people develop cataracts over time. Left untreated, cataracts can cause partial or complete blindness. In the U.S., cataract surgery is quick and accessible, but this is not the case in other countries. Knowing where there is the greatest need for treatment is important for the World Health Organization as they make decisions on where to send ophthalmologists to perform surgeries. In addition to being a mathematician and researcher, Talithia is a mother of three boys, a wife of 15 years, a TV show host, an author, and a person of faith. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, being involved in her church, volunteering, and helping people in her community. She received a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, and while an undergraduate student, Talithia conducted research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After graduating, Talithia went on to earn a master’s degree in mathematics from Howard University, a master’s degree in statistics from Rice University, and a PhD in statistics from Rice University. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvey Mudd College, Talithia conducted research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the NASA Johnson Space Center, and the National Security Agency. Talithia has received numerous honors and awards throughout her career, including the Mathematical Association of America’s Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member and The Claremont Colleges Diversity Mentor Award. In our interview Talithia shares more about her life and work.

In our latest episode, Brian welcomes James Tanton, co-founder of the Global Math Project to the show. James is a mathematician, author, educator and advocate who currently serves as the Mathematician-at-Large for the Mathematical Association of America. He is driven by the belief that mathematics is accessible to all, is committed to sharing the delight and the beauty of math. James talked with Brian about how the Global Math Project came to be, the overwhelming success of its inaugural year, and how that momentum has only increased as Global Math Week 2018 approaches. They talk about MIND’s partnership with the Global Math Project, the importance of the ambassador program, and what the goals are for this year’s event.Global Math Week 2018 runs from October 10th through the 17th. You can find out more and sign up to participate at globalmathproject.org. You can also keep up with James on Twitter @JamesTanton. And keep an eye the MIND blog for information about the Global Math Week kickoff event that MIND will partnering with the Global Math Project on in the beginning of October. Topics Covered in the Podcast:0:45 Intro4:20 Discovering a Love of Math9:30 Becoming an Educator15:00 Path to the Global Math Project19:00 GMW Year One Success20:45 Partnering With MIND23:20 Global Math Ambassadors30:00 Goals for 2018 and Beyond Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please leave us a review on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker or wherever you are listening to the show. Subscribe to get future episodes as soon as they are released!

In our latest episode, Brian welcomes James Tanton, co-founder of the Global Math Project to the show. James is a mathematician, author, educator and advocate who currently serves as the Mathematician-at-Large for the Mathematical Association of America. He is driven by the belief that mathematics is accessible to all, is committed to sharing the delight and the beauty of math. James talked with Brian about how the Global Math Project came to be, the overwhelming success of its inaugural year, and how that momentum has only increased as Global Math Week 2018 approaches. They talk about MIND’s partnership with the Global Math Project, the importance of the ambassador program, and what the goals are for this year’s event.Global Math Week 2018 runs from October 10th through the 17th. You can find out more and sign up to participate at globalmathproject.org. You can also keep up with James on Twitter @JamesTanton. And keep an eye the MIND blog for information about the Global Math Week kickoff event that MIND will partnering with the Global Math Project on in the beginning of October. Topics Covered in the Podcast:0:45 Intro4:20 Discovering a Love of Math9:30 Becoming an Educator15:00 Path to the Global Math Project19:00 GMW Year One Success20:45 Partnering With MIND23:20 Global Math Ambassadors30:00 Goals for 2018 and Beyond Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please leave us a review on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker or wherever you are listening to the show. Subscribe to get future episodes as soon as they are released!

Debbie is head of Wingra School, whose mission is educating the whole child since 1972. Before joining Wingra in 2016, Debbie was the Head of School for 9 years at the Bellwether School, a holistic elementary school in Vermont.In the late 1990s, she served as the director of the PlayCare Center, a play-based preschool that celebrated children’s sense of wonder and curiosity. While working at the Mathematical Association of America in Washington, DC, Debbie collaborated with university professors to define novel teaching methods to strengthen mathematics achievement in minority high school students. She also worked in the field of biomechanics, designing prosthetics for children and studying Tai Chi gait in young and elderly adults.Debbie is committed to using very simple human “technologies”—like listening, speaking from the heart, slowing down, breathing, and connecting to nature—in order to support authentic relationships, a deeper sense of self, an essential shift in consciousness, and aligned living practices. She enjoys exploring new ways to empower and inspire students and adults to gain awareness of themselves, others, and the world around them. Her guiding question: How do we create the conditions for everyone in our community to know that they belong, they matter, they are seen, and their perspectives and gifts are valued?In this Podcast:The opportunities and challenges as Head of a successful holistic schoolDeveloping and sustaining an emergent, whole child curriculumStaff relationships in holistic schoolParent relationships in a holistic schoolDebbie's profile at Wingra School Click here for a transcript on this podcast

Dr Jennie Golding is based in the Institute of Education and is also Immediate Past President of the Mathematical Association. She has given evidence to Parliament in many forms throughout her career, arguing for the importance of maths teaching in schools.

Mathematician Paul Erdős had no home, no job, and no hobbies. Instead, for 60 years he wandered the world, staying with each of hundreds of collaborators just long enough to finish a project, and then moving on. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll meet the "magician of Budapest," whose restless brilliance made him the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century. We'll also ponder Japanese cannibalism in World War II and puzzle over a senseless stabbing. Intro: Elbert Hubbard published 12 blank pages in 1905. A duck spent 18 months in the U.S. 2nd Marine Division in 1943. Sources for our feature on Paul Erdős: Paul Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, 1999. The magisterial biography of Erdős. The first chapter is here. Bruce Schechter, My Brain Is Open, 2000. Béla Bollobás, "Paul Erdős (1913-96)," Nature, 383:6601 (Oct. 17, 1996), 584. Melvin Henriksen, "Reminiscences of Paul Erdős," Mathematical Association of America (accessed June 10, 2017). László Babai, Carl Pomerance, and Péter Vértesi, "The Mathematics of Paul Erdős," Notices of the AMS 45:1 (January 1998). László Babai and Joel Spencer, "Paul Erdős (1913–1996)," Notices of the AMS 45:1 (January 1998). Ronald L. Graham, Jaroslav Nesetril, Steve Butler, eds., The Mathematics of Paul Erdős, 2013. Rodrigo De Castro and Jerrold W. Grossman, "Famous Trails to Paul Erdős," Mathematical Intelligencer 21:3 (January 1999), 51–53. Bruce Torrence and Ron Graham, "The 100th Birthday of Paul Erdős/Remembering Erdős," Math Horizons 20:4 (April 2013), 10-12. Krishnaswami Alladi et al., "Reflections on Paul Erdős on His Birth Centenary," Parts I and II, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 62:2 and 62:3 (February and March 2015). Béla Bollobás, "To Prove and Conjecture: Paul Erdős and His Mathematics," American Mathematical Monthly 105:3 (March 1998), 209-237. "Information About Paul Erdős (1913-1996)," Oakland University (accessed June 13, 2017). Calla Cofield, "An Arbitrary Number of Years Since Mathematician Paul Erdős's Birth," Scientific American, March 26, 2013. Béla Bollobás, "Obituary: Paul Erdős," Independent, Oct. 2, 1996. N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős, Kanopy Streaming, 2014. "Paul Erdős," MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (accessed June 10, 2017). Above: Erdős teaching 10-year-old Terence Tao in 1985. Tao is now recognized as one of the world's finest mathematicians; he received the Fields Medal in 2006. Listener mail: Wikipedia, "Chichijima Incident" (accessed June 23, 2017). Charles Laurence, "George HW Bush Narrowly Escaped Comrades' Fate of Being Killed and Eaten by Japanese Captors," Telegraph, Feb. 6, 2017. James Bradley, Flyboys, 2003. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Waldo van der Waal, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website or buy merchandise in our store. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

What is artificial intelligence? What is artifical intelligence? And great answers to most of what we talked about, by a proper computer guy from Stanford University (Formal Reasoning Group) What is Skynet? (Wikia) What is computer chess? (Wikipedia) Google computer wins final game against South Korean Go master (Physics.org) Google has gotten very good at predicting traffic (Tech Insider) When will AI be created? (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) What is intelligence? (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) What is consciousness? (big think) What it will take for computers to be conscious (MIT Technology Review) Learning how little we know about the brain (The New York Times) Google traffic (Google) What is artifical consciousness? (Wikipedia) Kegan's 'orders of mind' (NZCR) Kegan's theory of the evolution of consciousness (Stanford University) Consciousness may be an 'emergent property' of the brain (Quora) A good discussion between Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Sam Harris' podcast) There are billions of connections in your brain (The Astronomist) The 'Go' game (Wikipedia) The number of possible Go games is reeeeally large...potentially more than the number of atoms in the universe (Sensei's Library) A comparison of chess & Go (British Go Association) Go & maths...the number of positions is scary (Wikipedia) There are also a lot of chess moves (Chess.com) What is a brute force attack? (Technopedia) How many moves ahead can hard core chess players see? (Quora) Deep learning in a nutshell – what it is, how it works, why care? (KDnuggets) Deep learning with massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects & translate speech in real time (MIT Technology Review) Google's 'DeepMind' deep learning start up (techworld) The Google Brain project (Wired) The Go computer was trained with 160,000 real-life games (Scientific American) Evolutionary computation & AI (Wikipedia) Genetic programming & AI (Wikipedia) So what's a robot then? (Galileo Educational Network) Professor reveals to students that his assistant was an AI all along (SMH) Hate Siri? Meet Viv - the future of chatbots and artificial intelligence (SMH) What is the connection between AI & robotics (wiseGEEK) Robotic limbs that plug into the brain (MIT Technology review) The Roomba vacuum robot (iRobot) The 'Robot or Not' podcast (The Incomparable) Expert predictions on when we'll see conscious machines: When will the machines wake up? (TechCrunch) Google AI: What if Google became self-aware? (wattpad) Will Google create the first conscious computer? (Daily Mail Australia) Google Consciousness...not affiliated with Google (Google Consciousness) Elon Musk does indeed have an AI company: Open AI (Wired) Evil genius with a fluffy cat (Regmedia) The Maltesers gift box (Mars) Will machines eventually take on every job? (BBC) When robots take all the work, what'll be left for us to do? (Wired) The travelling salesman maths problem (Wikipedia) A bunch of stuff about the travelling salesman maths problem (University of Waterloo) GPS became fully operational in 1995, but was proposed in 1973 (Wikipedia) How does GPS work? (Wikipedia) Digital diagnosis: intelligent machines do a better job than humans (The Conversation) What is Lyme disease? (Lyme Disease Association of Australia) Stuttgart (Wikipedia) Robot B-9: the robot from Lost in Space (Lost in Space Wiki) Robot B-9 in action (YouTube) Surgical robots (All About Robotic Surgery) Commercial planes are basically just big drones (Esquire) The AI in Google's self-driving cars qualifies as legal driver (Fortune) All the self-driving cars are learning from each other (The Oatmeal) Your future self-driving car will be way more hackable (MIT Technology Review) Google self-driving cars have driven more than 2 million km & have ony had 14 minor collisions (Wikipedia) Crazy animation of self-driving cars at an intersection (Co.Design) Self-driving cars could get their own lanes (wtop) Self-driving cars could lower insurance premiums (The Telegraph) Self-driving cars could lower insurance premiums (Wired) Australia's new National Broadband Network (nbnco) Tesla's cars now drive themselves, kinda (Wired) Australia's first autonomous vehicle test (Motoring) How AI is driving the next industrial revolution (InformationAge) Why bots are the next industrial revolution (Huffington Post) Humans need not apply: short video (C.G.P. Grey) Self-driving trucks are on the way (Basic Income) In the 2015 census there were 94,975 articulated trucks registered in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics) Driverless trucks move all iron ore at Rio Tinto's Pilbara mines, in world first (ABC Australia) Rio Tinto pushes ahead with driverless trains in Pilbara (SMH) Can Star Trek's world with no money work? (CNN Money) The economics of Star Trek (Medium) Jeff Bezos from Amazon (Wikipedia) Yes, the robots will steal our jobs. And that's fine (The Washington Post) I fear 'low-cost country sourcing' more than robots taking my job (Wikipedia) Flight prices are calculated by robots doing maths (Mathematical Association of America) Are airline passengers getting ripped off by robots? (Fortune) Is it true that once you search for a flight the algorithm will remember & put the price up? (Quora) Mac users may see pricier options (ABC America) Naked Wines Sir James Dyson (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Cheeky review? 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It's that time!!!!!!! It's March Madness! Join us as we talk to Dr. Tim Chartier, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College. He specializes in data analytics. Working with Davidson College students, he supplies analytics for the men's basketball team at the college. Tim has also consulted on sports analytics problems for ESPN's Sport Science program, the Weather Channel, the NBA and a fantasy sports site.  In 2014, Tim was named the inaugural Math Ambassador for the Mathematical Association of America, which also recognized his ability to communicate math with a national teaching award. His research and scholarship were recognized with the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.  Tim has written 2 books that gives details on his bracketology methods for March Madness: Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing and When Life is Linear: from Computer Graphics to Bracketology.  Tim has also been a resource for a variety of media inquiries, which include appearances with NPR, the CBS Evening News, USA Today and The New York Times.  

[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math] My favorite kind of math challenges are those that children can understand and professional mathematicians can’t solve easily (or at all.) Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing (Princeton University Press, 2014) is a brand new book from Princeton University Press that has a great collection of fun problems that kids (middle school and above) and their parents can work on together. Author Tim Chartier does a fantastic job of weaving some wonderful stories into his sharing of a number of challenges that are either original or new spins on old problems. And, many (all?) of the puzzles in the book are classroom tested. Tim is a mathematician and a professional mime. He’s got a neat relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, and with the Museum of Mathematics in New York City. He’s got a DVD course coming out, and a second book. Tim is quite the math celebrity and a really great guy. I think you’ll all enjoy the many topics we manage to touch on in just over an hour. Oh, and if you didn’t win a billion dollars in Warren Buffett’s March Madness challenge then you might want to listen to the podcast and read the book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math] My favorite kind of math challenges are those that children can understand and professional mathematicians can’t solve easily (or at all.) Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing (Princeton University Press, 2014) is a brand new book from Princeton University Press that has a great collection of fun problems that kids (middle school and above) and their parents can work on together. Author Tim Chartier does a fantastic job of weaving some wonderful stories into his sharing of a number of challenges that are either original or new spins on old problems. And, many (all?) of the puzzles in the book are classroom tested. Tim is a mathematician and a professional mime. He’s got a neat relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, and with the Museum of Mathematics in New York City. He’s got a DVD course coming out, and a second book. Tim is quite the math celebrity and a really great guy. I think you’ll all enjoy the many topics we manage to touch on in just over an hour. Oh, and if you didn’t win a billion dollars in Warren Buffett’s March Madness challenge then you might want to listen to the podcast and read the book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is currently President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He has written and edited many books on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice, and on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland. He is involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, and has been awarded prizes by the Mathematical Association of America for ‘outstanding expository writing’.

In 2014, UK mathematics professor Carl Lee received the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. This prestigious award is given by the MAA to honor instructors who have shown extreme success in their teaching and reached out to students in a way that goes beyond their own institution. Here, Lee talks about the different programs he has started and been involved with that helped him earn such an honor. This podcast was produced by David Cole.

There are literally hundreds of techniques available to UX practitioners – but which techniques are the most effective? We all have our favourites, but how do you know if you’ve chosen the right combination for your project? We chose to answer this question by tackling a project where time was largely a non-issue – not a Mickey Mouse personal project, but a real ecommerce redesign project for a real client: the Mathematical Association of Victoria’s online bookstore. We managed the client’s expectations on timeframes to allow us to apply every technique in the UX toolkit. So began our quest to determine, once and for all, which UX technique was most valuable.

Dennis DeTurck is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Mathematics, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. This year he and his coauthors, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano and David Shea Vela-Vick, were awarded the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America for their paper “The Four Vertex Theorem and its Converse.” He has also received the SAS Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching, the University’s Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the M.A.A.’s Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Hosted by Professor Kyeong Hah Roh Abstract Much of what we say and write in our mathematics classes assumes that our students understand linguistic and logical conventions that have never been made explicit to them. What problems result from this assumption, and how can we address them? Biography Susanna S. Epp (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1968) is Vincent de Paul Professor of Mathematical Sciences at DePaul University. After initial research in commutative algebra, she became interested in cognitive issues associated with teaching analytical thinking and proof and has published a number of articles and given many talks related to this topic. She is the author of Discrete Mathematics with Applications, now in its fourth edition, and of the newly published Discrete Mathematics: An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning. She also co-authored the first edition of Precalculus and Discrete Mathematics, which was developed as part of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. Long active in the Mathematical Association of America, she is a co-author of CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004. In January 2005 she received the Louise Hay Award for contributions to mathematics education, and in April 2010 she received the Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics from the Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America.