Podcasts about mathematical thinking

Episode SummaryIn this episode of OnBase, host Chris Moody sits down with Abhishek Damani to discuss the critical role of aligning sales performance metrics with broader business goals. They explore why traditional sales metrics sometimes fall short and how companies can define KPIs that reflect strategic priorities.Abhishek also shares his structured four-step approach for identifying and tracking performance indicators, along with insights into how AI is transforming sales processes. Whether you're a revenue leader, a sales manager, or a marketer looking to bridge the gap with sales teams, this episode is packed with practical takeaways on driving efficiency and improving business impact.About the GuestAbhishek Damani leads sales enablement for Industrial markets business at Cummins Inc., where he's responsible for driving sales functional excellence by implementing tools and creating resources, training, and KPIs to improve sales teams' productivity.Cummins Inc. is a global power solutions leader helping its customers successfully navigate the energy transition with its broad portfolio of products. The products range from advanced diesel, natural gas, electric, and hybrid powertrains and powertrain-related components. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (U.S.), since its founding in 1919, Cummins employs approximately 75,500 people committed to powering a more prosperous world.Connect with Abhishek DamaniKey Takeaways- Aligning Sales KPIs with Business Goals is Crucial:Measuring only revenue growth can create misalignment with broader company objectives like profitability or market expansion. Sales teams must tailor their KPIs to reflect business priorities.- Traditional Sales Metrics Have Blind Spots:While win rate and sales velocity are important, they fail to capture long-term trends like customer sustainability goals, industry shifts, and regional sales discrepancies.- Four Steps to Defining Impactful KPIs:Understand strategic and operational business goals.Identify KPIs that track progress toward those goals.Determine how sales contributes to those metrics and what data is required.Measure progress and drive accountability.- AI is Enhancing Sales Processes:From summarizing meeting notes to tracking customer engagement and automating administrative tasks like expense reporting, AI is freeing up valuable time for sales teams.- Bridging Sales and Marketing with Data:Cummins uses a structured business planning process to ensure sales forecasts align with market trends, breaking silos between sales, marketing, and engineering teams.Quotes"If KPIs don't align with company goals, everyone gets frustrated. Sales meets their numbers, but leadership still isn't happy."Tech Recommendations-reMarkable Paper Tablet – A digital notebook for handwritten notes and organization.- AI-Powered Meeting Note Summarizers – Automating administrative tasks like note-taking and action item tracking.Recommended ResourceBooks:-How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg.-The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins.Podcast:-Everyday AI Podcast by Jordan Wilson.⁠Connect with Abhishek Damani⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠|⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow us on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠|⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website

In this episode of Blooming Curious, I welcome Tonya Gilchrist, an International Education Consultant and Learning Strategist. Tonya shares her journey towards advocating inquiry-based learning, discusses how to effectively implement inquiry practices within classrooms, and addresses misconceptions around inquiry and agency. She dives into the challenges of standardised testing and talks about her work in transforming educational approaches in schools worldwide. Discover practical advice for fostering student engagement and honouring individual interests while meeting curriculum standards through inquiry. Tonya also shares insights on facilitating cross-curricular learning and balancing teacher-led and student-led instruction to ensure deep, meaningful learning experiences.Go to the episode website for links mentioned in the episode.To connect with Tonya:WebsiteFacebookInstagramLinkedinTo sign up to Get Curious, the newsletter that gives you a dose of weekly inspiration, and the strategies and resources to help you, help children to thrive in their learning , go here.Connect with Edwina:Email: contact@bloomingcurious.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/blooming_curious/Website: https://www.bloomingcurious.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomingcuriousYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@edsbloomingcurious☕️ If you appreciate my work and want to encourage me to keep going, you can do so by buying me a coffee! Any contribution will be gratefully received and will certainly give me the support I need to keep going.☕️ 00:00 Introduction to Tonya Gilchrist00:57 Tonya's Journey and Passion for Inquiry02:31 Challenges with Standardized Testing04:03 International Teaching Experience06:53 Misconceptions About Inquiry-Based Learning11:28 The Importance of Hands-On Learning16:47 Breaking Down Subject Silos23:43 Honoring Student Interests and Agency34:21 Celebrating Diverse Talents in the Classroom35:27 The Joy of Teaching and Learning38:03 Engaging Reluctant Students40:53 Building Relationships and High Expectations46:29 Transforming Classrooms Through Inquiry53:43 The Future of Inquiry-Based Learning01:01:39 Staying Curious as an Educator

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with Presidential polling and prognosticating in the air, we listen back to Mike's 2018 with Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about his book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. We also listen back to Mike's Spiel, in which he recounts the RFK bear fiasco … in song.    Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rori and Emilia discuss their take-home lessons from Dr. Ivelisse Rubio such as the importance of focus and dedication in research, the value of critical thinking and mathematical logic in navigating life, and the necessity of sustainability in academic and scientific efforts.EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:04:45 The Power of Mathematical Thinking in Life06:11 Learning to Avoid Burnout: Ive's Organizational Challenges07:50 Sustainable Models for Academic Programs09:07 Reflections and Gratitude: Wrapping Up the EpisodeCREDITS: This episode is produced and edited by Maribel Quezada Smith. SoundEngineering by Keagan Stromberg. Production Coordinator, Marissa Alcantar. A DiferenteCreative Production.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODETeach Your Kids: LinkedIn | Website | X | Instagram | Substack | Facebook | TikTokManisha: LinkedIn | X | Instagram | FacebookChristopher Danielson: Website | X | Bluesky: @triangleman.bsky.socialJoin our premium community with expert support and adviceTeach Your Kids PodcastsHow to Help Your Child with Math if You're Not a Math Person: Manisha SnoyerTeach Your Kids Blog PostsThe Best PreK-12th Grade Math Curriculum of 2023Books, Articles, Publications, and VideosCommon Core Math For Parents For Dummies with Videos Online - Christopher DanielsonWhich One Doesn't Belong?: Playing with Shapes - Christopher Danielson How Many? (Talking Math) - Christopher DanielsonOne is one ... or is it? | TED-EdCurriculumIllustrative MathematicsBridges in MathematicsDesmosMath HappensRelated ResourcesTeacher DesmosMathhappens.orgPublic MathOn Being a Math Person (or Not)Talking Math with Kids | ShopA Very Mathy Gift List | Talking Math With Your KidsCarstens StudiosMath On-A-Stick  Time Codes00:00:00 — Manisha Snoyer introduces the podcast 'Teach Your Kids' and welcomes Christopher Danielson, focusing on mathematics education and engaging young children in math.00:01:00 — Overview of Christopher Danielson's background, highlighting his experience as an author and educator, and his significant contributions to mathematics education.00:02:00 — Christopher Danielson discusses the concept of his book "Is it or not vehicles?" and explores mathematical thinking through everyday objects.00:12:47 — Discussion on the purpose of math education beyond traditional trajectories and preparation for advanced courses.00:14:40 — Insights into the pros and cons of the Common Core curriculum and its impact on mathematics education.00:20:00 — Emphasizing the importance of adapting math education to suit digital and physical learning environments.00:25:00 — Strategies for engaging young children in mathematics through playful and creative methods.00:30:00 — Danielson shares his experience working with Desmos and the development of digital math tools.00:32:22 — Addressing the concerns of parents about introducing math to very young children and the importance of play in learning.00:35:00 — Discussion on the creation of physical math games and resources for young learners.00:39:22 — Exploring the balance between digital and physical learning tools in mathematics education.00:45:38 — Danielson talks about the challenges and misconceptions surrounding the Common Core standards.00:49:59 — Personal reflections on learning and growth from working in different educational environments.  This podcast was recorded on Riverside and is made possible through a generous grant from the Vela Education Fund VELA Education Fund is catalyzing a vibrant alternative education ecosystem. VELA provides trust-based funding to entrepreneurs, fosters community-building and knowledge-sharing, and increases visibility through storytelling that promotes cultural awareness and acceptance of the out-of-system space. Today, VELA serves the largest community of out-of-system education entrepreneurs in the country, with over 2,000 community members. About half of VELA's community members operate small learning environments, and the other half are ecosystem and community builders offering direct services and support across the out-of-system space. Learn more at velaedfund.org.This site contains product affiliate links. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links.

In this where are they now mentoring moment episode we speak again with Adam Love; Adam joined us back on episode 120 when he was as first year teacher from Myrtle Beach South Carolina. 3 years later and a wealth of ideas, teaching strategies, and many lessons learned Adam is here to discuss how to help students show their thinking in multiple ways. This is another Math Mentoring Moment episode where we chat with a teacher like you who is working through some problems of practice and together we brainstorm ways to overcome them. You'll Learn: How do I help students use models and strategies over the algorithms? How do I keep students on task when I'm working in small groups?Why you need to be crystal clear with expectations around demonstrating understanding.Resources: Make Math Moments Problem Based Lessons & UnitsDistrict Math Leaders: How are you ensuring that you support those educators who need a nudge to spark a focus on growing their pedagogical-content knowledge? What about opportunities for those who are eager and willing to elevate their practice, but do not have the support? Book a call with our District Improvement Program Team to learn how we can not only help you craft, refine and implement your district math learning goals, but also provide all of the professional learning supports your educators need to grow at the speed of their learning. Book a short conversation with our team now. Get a Customized Math Improvement Plan For Your District.Are you district leader for mathematics? Take the 12 minute assessment and you'll get a free, customized improvement plan to shape and grow the 6 parts of any strong mathematics program.Take the assessment

In this episode of Room to Grow, special guests Sandra Lightman and John Staley help Joanie and Curtis understand the Math Milestones. These one-page resources include 12-14 math tasks that provide a visualization of and engagement with the math standards of each grade. The Math Milestones tasks present grade level math, not as a list of standards or learning outcomes, but as a groups of math tasks, a language understood by teachers and students. The Math Milestones project was supported by Student Achievement Partners with Sandra and John as critical members of the team. The resources, available for free online, include a set of teacher notes that support using these tasks to better understand the math of each grade level, and to engage educators in conversations that get to the depth of the intended learning. Additional work is being done to provide “asset maps,” resources that allow educators to use student work and responses to the Math Milestones tasks to better understand and build upon students' strengths. We encourage you to explore the resources below, referenced in this episode:Learn more about the Math Milestones project on their website HEREFind the grade level grids (sets of tasks) HEREReview the teacher notes for each grade level HEREExplore additional resources to support teaching the standards from Student Achievement PartnersDid you enjoy this episode of Room to Grow? Please leave a review and share the episode with others. Share your feedback, comments, and suggestions for future episode topics by emailing roomtogrowmath@gmail.com . Be sure to connect with your hosts on Twitter and Instagram: @JoanieFun and @cbmathguy. 

Are you looking at your students through a strength-based lens? This week on Teaching Channel Talks, Wendy is joined by Sarah Larison, from Northwestern University, to discuss her work in advancing teacher preparation, particularly through the use of video. While mathematical argumentation is at the focal point of this insightful conversation, Sarah's research helps educators of all content areas go beyond filing gaps in student learning and instead, notice student thinking. Resources for Continued LearningLooking to bring Mathematical Thinking into your own math classroom? Teaching Channel offers several graduate-level continuing education courses, including 5154: Deep Thinking Practices for the Math Classroom, to help you get started.Ready to start using video to improve your teaching? Explore the new Teaching Channel Video Platform!

Jeffrey Choppin from the University of Rochester discusses the article, "The role of instructional materials in the relationship between the official curriculum and the enacted curriculum," published by Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Volume 24. Co-authors: Amy Roth McDuffie, Corey Drake, Jon Davis Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10986065.2020.1855376  Jeff's Professional Webpage: https://www.warner.rochester.edu/directory/jeffrey-choppin  List of episodes of the Math Ed Podcast

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Build Math MindsFree Resources | Ann Elise Record Consulting LLCMathigonSolveMe MobilesCommon Core State Standards for MathematicsFlorida K-12 Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning StandardsFiguring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Grades K-8 | CorwinEverything You Need for Mathematics Coaching | CorwinRough Draft Math – Stenhouse Publishers

TODAY'S GUEST   Jordan Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. His new book, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, came out earlier this year. Jordan lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and his blog is called Quomodocumque, which means "after whatever fashion" in Latin.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we discuss: [2:56] Takeaways from teaching online [8:27] Early revelations about math [15:56] From academia to writing [18:54] A new way of teaching math [31:08] Lincoln and geometry [36:35] The geometry of gerrymandering [44:59] Comparing between the Israeli and the US political systems [52:21] How geometry helps in deep learning and AI [57:20] The geometry of reality [1:04:26] The philosophy of entropy [1:08:09] A non-sermon about sermons   EPISODE LINKS Jordan's Links

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Manan Khurma is the founder of Cuemath (www.cuemath.com), a leading math learning platform. He is a passionate educator, entrepreneur and a deep believer in making 'mathematical thinking' accessible and enjoyable to every child. My inner geek enjoyed this conversation and we explored many questions about math tutoring and enabling children to aim for 'mastery'. Don't miss the end section where we discuss Manan's favourite math equation, math constant etc. If you like this conversation, don't forget to subscribe, and please rate the podcast on Google podcasts, Apple, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen to it. Thank you and let's get started. Timestamps: 1:54 Welcome and Intro. 3:32 Why should everyone love math? The universal need for 'mathematical thinking'. 10:41 The history of how math has been taught (and the underlying problem with the approach). 16:58 Different models of math education and scaling the impact. 'Aristocratic tutoring'. 24:00 Scaling the quality of the teacher network. "A great teacher is someone who can engineer outcomes in their student". 28:30 Incentivising children to seek 'mastery'. Creating a 'gradual-ramp' to mastery. 34:23 Entrepreneurship journey. Creating a 'math learning' company. 44:46 Keeping the passion alive over the longer term. Building and aligning a team. 49:52 Dealing with competition. 55:25 Favourite math equation, math constant, simple math explanation of a complex concept. 59:42 Favourite books. 1.02:51 Message to teachers and parents. Disclaimer: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the series are solely personal and do not necessarily represent those of my company / employers.

Jordan Ellenberg is the first official mathematician we've had on the show, but his work weaves through many different domains. Afterall, whether it's something like game theory or data science, it's all built on math.Jordan Ellenberg is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics. His research centers on the fields of number theory and algebraic geometry, the parts of mathematics which address fundamental questions about algebraic equations and their solutions in whole numbers. Jordan has also been writing for a general audience about math for more than fifteen years; including “How Not To Be Wrong: The Power Of Mathematical Thinking,” “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else,” his novel “The Grasshopper King,” and his “Do the Math” column in Slate. Jordan joins Greg to talk about what makes math special, how published studies might not be reliable, and, the geometry of how we relate to the world.Episode Quotes:Math & IntuitionImprobable things are very common. Like if you like open a book to a random page and look at it and you're like, wow, 432, what's the chance that I would've opened it to exactly the page 432, like pretty small, right? The book has a lot of pages. That's a very unlikely event. And yet something in you knows not to find that remarkable, even though it's definitely improbable. So you see how your intuition gets like a little weird and twisted around. You have to be very careful.Math class is hardWe know that it's like one of the classes that creates a lot of stress for kids. And one reason is that it is a venue where we tell people they're wrong.Math is fundamentalMath is like a fundamentally human activity. Every single human society that's ever existed does it. And if we sort of, slice off either our poetic side or our quantitative side, we're just like slicing off like part of our human nature. Why would we do that?Show Links:Resources: Geometry by Rita DoveGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at University of WisconsinJordan Ellenberg's WebsiteJordan Ellenberg on TwitterJordan Ellenberg on FacebookHis Work:Articles on SlateJordan Ellenberg on Google ScholarHow Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical ThinkingShape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything ElseThe Grasshopper King

In this episode of How'd You Think of That?, Temple Grandin talks with Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, an ecologist who studies rainforest canopies and their disturbances. In addition to her research, Dr. Nadkarni pioneered the Science in Prisons project, which brings science education and conservation projects to incarcerated individuals. She is also a professor of Biology at the University of Utah.This podcast is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1745674.

In our first episode of How'd You Think of That?, prominent scientist Temple Grandin talks to Erik Jorgensen, Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. Jorgensen is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and studies how the human brain works on a molecular level. Jorgensen and his students conduct a wide variety of experiments from genetic engineering to the basic functioning of the synapses.This podcast is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1745674.

Hear it Here - C Struggling with math? Are numbers your #1 enemy? Learn the EXACT thinking tools the top mathematicians use to utilize their math skills in real life and radically change how you shop, save, and think! Achieve your full potential with unlocking your mathematical mind – even if you think you don't have one. Math is taught in a dull, authoritarian, and limited way. You either know how to do the Pythagorean theorem or you don't. But there is SO MUCH more to math than mere calculus and geometry. It pervades almost every life aspect – from how your insurance premium is calculated to the deal you should choose on Black Friday. Don't let numbers get in your way to succeed in life. You CAN do math – without the formulas. Learn to assess information in a logical manner, understand the real connection between risk and probability, make calculated decisions – no hardcore math involved. Mathematical Thinking – For People Who Hate Math provides a new way of looking at the world. Unlock life-changing ideas and use them to make better and more informed decisions. Express yourself in a precise and concise manner using the language of math. Learn how turning your focus off can help solve challenging problems. How to turn risk and probability to your advantage... mathematically. Manage test anxiety like a pro. A math manual you'll actually love to read, with research-backed examples for faster learning and greater everyday impact. Albert Rutherford is an internationally bestselling author whose writing derives from various sources, such as research, coaching, academic and real-life experience. Thinking mathematically is not the same as doing math. Discover the underlying, everyday utility of math they don't teach you in school. https://www.audible.com/pd/B09PDTY3B7/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWU-BK-ACX0-292135&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_292135_pd_us #AlbertRutherford #CreativeThinking #Decisionmaking #MathematicalMind #MathematicalThinking #ProblemSolving #Rutherford #MathematicalThinking-ForPeopleWhoHateMath #RussellNewton #NewtonMG Albert Rutherford,Creative Thinking,Decision making,Mathematical Mind,Mathematical Thinking,ProblemSolving,Rutherford,Mathematical Thinking - For People Who Hate Math,Russell Newton,NewtonMG

Hear it Here - C Struggling with math? Are numbers your #1 enemy? Learn the EXACT thinking tools the top mathematicians use to utilize their math skills in real life and radically change how you shop, save, and think! Achieve your full potential with unlocking your mathematical mind – even if you think you don't have one. Math is taught in a dull, authoritarian, and limited way. You either know how to do the Pythagorean theorem or you don't. But there is SO MUCH more to math than mere calculus and geometry. It pervades almost every life aspect – from how your insurance premium is calculated to the deal you should choose on Black Friday. Don't let numbers get in your way to succeed in life. You CAN do math – without the formulas. Learn to assess information in a logical manner, understand the real connection between risk and probability, make calculated decisions – no hardcore math involved. Mathematical Thinking – For People Who Hate Math provides a new way of looking at the world. Unlock life-changing ideas and use them to make better and more informed decisions. Express yourself in a precise and concise manner using the language of math. Learn how turning your focus off can help solve challenging problems. How to turn risk and probability to your advantage... mathematically. Manage test anxiety like a pro. A math manual you'll actually love to read, with research-backed examples for faster learning and greater everyday impact. Albert Rutherford is an internationally bestselling author whose writing derives from various sources, such as research, coaching, academic and real-life experience. Thinking mathematically is not the same as doing math. Discover the underlying, everyday utility of math they don't teach you in school. https://www.audible.com/pd/B09PDTY3B7/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWU-BK-ACX0-292135&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_292135_pd_us #AlbertRutherford #CreativeThinking #Decisionmaking #MathematicalMind #MathematicalThinking #ProblemSolving #Rutherford #MathematicalThinking-ForPeopleWhoHateMath #RussellNewton #NewtonMG Albert Rutherford,Creative Thinking,Decision making,Mathematical Mind,Mathematical Thinking,ProblemSolving,Rutherford,Mathematical Thinking - For People Who Hate Math,Russell Newton,NewtonMG

Madison authors, topics, book events and publishersIt's the most wonderful time of the year, time for the Wisconsin Book Festival, 28 events this week alone, both in-person and online, and Stu Levitan welcomes one of the featured presenters, and one of the brightest stars in the firmament that is the University of Wisconsin faculty, Professor Jordan Ellenberg, to discuss his NYTimes best-seller, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Prof. Ellenberg will be appearing this Saturday at 3 o'clock at the Discovery Building, 330 N Orchard St., so Stu thought it would be a good idea to dial up an encore presentation of our conversation from this past July.As coined by the ancient Greeks, “geometry” literally means “measuring the world,” and the world which Jordan Ellenberg measures in Shape is wide and far-flung indeed. Gerrymandering, the tv show Survivor, Abraham Lincoln, pandemics and flitting mosquitoes, artificial intelligence, even an answer to the question ‘how many holes in a straw'? And it's an accessible world – yes, there are symbols and equations, and you're welcome to have pad and paper with you as you read, but the book is mainly a narrative built on stories and people.Jordan Ellenberg was not a late-bloomer. The son of two biostatisticians, he taught himself to read at age two by watching Sesame Street, he was competing in high school math competitions while in the fourth grade, and four years later he was taking honors calculus at the University of Maryland. At 17, he beat out 400,000 North American high school students to win the USA Mathematical Olympiad, and over a 3-year period took two golds and a silver at the International Mathematical Olympiad.He took his BA and Ph D at Harvard, with a masters from Johns Hopkins in creative writing in between, then started his academic career at Princeton. He came to the University of Wisconsin in 2005, made full professor in 2011, was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in 2014 and since 2015 has been the John D MacArthur Professor of Mathematics.His previous books include How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking in 2014 and the novel The Grasshopper King. He also has a credited cameo in the 2017 movie Gifted in the role of math professor, giving him a Kevin Bacon degree of separation of two and making him one of the extraordinarily small and select group of people with an Erdos/Bacon number. He maintains a blog Quomodocumque.wordpress.com and tweets at JSEllenberg. It is a great pleasure to welcome to MBB Professor Jordan Ellenberg.

In this episode of Commerce and Chill, Waleed and Jessica discuss data-driven decision making and why sometimes data can be more valuable than sales. Tune in to learn more about the data collection process and to welcome some mathematical thinking in your thought process! ► Episode Highlights: EP 87 00:00 - Preview 00:34 - Intro 05:32 - Making Data-Driven Decisions 06:27 - Data-Driven Decisions at The Soap Box 11:22 - 5 Quick Data Tips 16:23 - How Data Appears In Business 21:40 - There Are Dollars In The Data 27:33 - Shout Out To Sarah Inya Lawal And Ascend Studios 28:06 - Final Thoughts 28:35 - Credits ► Listen to the full session on the Commerce and Chill podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/commerce-chill/id1496451217 ---- ► Follow Us Online Here: LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/commerceandchill/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commerceandchill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commerceandchill/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommerceChill Website: https://www.commerceandchill.com/

Stu Levitan welcomes one of the brightest stars in the firmament that is the University of Wisconsin faculty, Professor Jordan Ellenberg, here to talk about his New York Times best-seller, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. As coined by the ancient Greeks, “geometry” literally means “measuring the world,” and the world which Jordan Ellenberg measures in Shape is wide and far-flung indeed. Gerrymandering, the tv show Survivor, Abraham Lincoln, pandemics and flitting mosquitoes, artificial intelligence, even an answer to the question ‘how many holes in a straw'? And it's an accessible world – yes, there are symbols and equations, and you're welcome to have pad and paper with you as you read, but the book is mainly a narrative built on stories and people. Jordan Ellenberg was not a late-bloomer. The son of two biostatisticians, he taught himself to read at age two by watching Sesame Street, he was competing in high school math competitions while in the fourth grade, and four years later he was taking honors calculus at the University of Maryland. At 17, he beat out 400,000 North American high school students to win the USA Mathematical Olympiad, and over a 3-year period took two golds and a silver at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He took his BA and Ph D at Harvard, with a masters from Johns Hopkins in creative writing in between, then started his academic career at Princeton. He came to the University of Wisconsin in 2005, made full professor in 2011, was named a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in 2014 and since 2015 has been the John D MacArthur Professor of Mathematics. His previous books include How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking in 2014 and the novel The Grasshopper King. He also has a credited cameo in the 2017 movie Gifted in the role of math professor, giving him a Kevin Bacon degree of separation of two and making him one of the extraordinarily small and select group of people with an Erdos/Bacon number. He maintains a blog Quomodocumque.wordpress.com and tweets at JSEllenberg. It is a great pleasure to welcome to MBB Professor Jordan Ellenberg

Julie Nurnberger-Haag from Kent State University discusses her research on children's books. Her analysis of counting books has been published in Mathematical Thinking and Learning and her analysis of shape books used in teacher education has been published in the International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education. Co-authors: Anita Alexander, Sarah Powell, Rashmi Singh, Jamie Wernet Julie's professional webpage: https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/tlcs/eced/profile/julie-nurnberger-haag   MTL article on counting books: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10986065.2020.1777365  MTL article video abstract (YouTube): https://youtu.be/upRVrKUuto8   IEJME article on shape books in teacher ed (open access): https://www.iejme.com/article/books-i-used-as-a-child-were-mathematically-incorrect-reasons-to-use-childrens-shape-related-books-10941  Traffic light rubric for evaluating children's shape books (open access): https://library.osu.edu/ojs/index.php/OJSM/article/view/6041  Complete list of episodes

In this episode I discuss some example questions we can ask to encourage kids to think deeper about computer science and computational thinking by unpacking two papers on using guiding questions in mathematics education. The first paper paper by Way (2014) is titled “Using questioning to stimulate mathematical thinking” and the second paper by Pennant (2018) is titled “Developing a classroom culture that supports a problem-solving approach to mathematics.”Click here for this episode’s show notes.

 Show Notes(2:12) Luis shared how he got excited about learning mathematics and specialized in combinatorics.(4:26) Luis discussed his experience studying Math for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Waterloo  - where he took many courses in combinatorics and engaged in undergraduate research.(5:59) Luis pursued his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan - where he worked on Schubert Calculus that intersects combinatorics and geometry (check out his Ph.D. dissertation).(8:45) Luis distinguished the differences between doing research in mathematics and machine learning.(11:33) Luis went over his time as a Postdoc Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Quebec at Montreal - where he was a member of the LaCIM lab (whose areas of research originating in Combinatorics and its relationships to Algebra and Computer Science) and taught classes in French.(13:47) Luis explained why he left academia and got his job as a Machine Learning Engineer at Google in 2014.(16:33) Luis discussed the engineering and analytical challenges he encountered as part of the video recommendations team at YouTube.(19:58) Luis shared lessons he learned to transition from academia to industry.(22:25) Luis went over his move to become the Head of Content for AI and Data Science at Udacity, alongside his online education passion.(26:08) Luis explained Udacity's educational approach to course content design in various nano degree programs, including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science.(28:46) Luis unpacked his end-to-end process of making YouTube, where he teaches concepts in Machine Learning and Math in layman terms.(31:01) Luis unpacked his statement, "Humans are bad at abstraction, but great at math," from his video “You Are Much Better At Math Than You Think.”(34:46) Luis shared his 3 favorite Machine Learning videos: Restricted Boltzmann Machines, A Friendly Introduction to Machine Learning, and My Story with the Thue-Morse Sequence.(37:18) Luis discussed the data science culture at Apple, where he spent one-year teaching machine learning to the employees and doing internal consulting in AI-related projects.(39:06) Luis revealed his interest in quantum computing. He works as a Quantum AI Research Scientist at Zapata Computing, a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use.(43:19) Luis mentioned the challenges of writing “Grokking Machine Learning” - a technical book with Manning planned to be published next year - like a mystery novel.(46:12) Luis shared the differences between working in Silicon Valley and Canada.(47:50) Closing segment.His Contact InfoWebsiteTwitterLinkedInYouTubeGitHubGoogle ScholarMediumHis Recommended ResourcesSebastian ThrunAndrew NgRana el Kaliouby"How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking" by Jordan Ellenberg"Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'NeilHere are the codes for free eBook copies of Luis' book "Grokking Machine Learning": gmldcr-D659, gmldcr-2512, gmldcr-0752, gmldcr-30A2, gmldcr-01E8. Additionally, use the code poddcast19 to receive a 40% discount of all Manning products!

 Show Notes(2:12) Luis shared how he got excited about learning mathematics and specialized in combinatorics.(4:26) Luis discussed his experience studying Math for his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Waterloo  - where he took many courses in combinatorics and engaged in undergraduate research.(5:59) Luis pursued his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan - where he worked on Schubert Calculus that intersects combinatorics and geometry (check out his Ph.D. dissertation).(8:45) Luis distinguished the differences between doing research in mathematics and machine learning.(11:33) Luis went over his time as a Postdoc Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Quebec at Montreal - where he was a member of the LaCIM lab (whose areas of research originating in Combinatorics and its relationships to Algebra and Computer Science) and taught classes in French.(13:47) Luis explained why he left academia and got his job as a Machine Learning Engineer at Google in 2014.(16:33) Luis discussed the engineering and analytical challenges he encountered as part of the video recommendations team at YouTube.(19:58) Luis shared lessons he learned to transition from academia to industry.(22:25) Luis went over his move to become the Head of Content for AI and Data Science at Udacity, alongside his online education passion.(26:08) Luis explained Udacity's educational approach to course content design in various nano degree programs, including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science.(28:46) Luis unpacked his end-to-end process of making YouTube, where he teaches concepts in Machine Learning and Math in layman terms.(31:01) Luis unpacked his statement, "Humans are bad at abstraction, but great at math," from his video “You Are Much Better At Math Than You Think.”(34:46) Luis shared his 3 favorite Machine Learning videos: Restricted Boltzmann Machines, A Friendly Introduction to Machine Learning, and My Story with the Thue-Morse Sequence.(37:18) Luis discussed the data science culture at Apple, where he spent one-year teaching machine learning to the employees and doing internal consulting in AI-related projects.(39:06) Luis revealed his interest in quantum computing. He works as a Quantum AI Research Scientist at Zapata Computing, a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use.(43:19) Luis mentioned the challenges of writing “Grokking Machine Learning” - a technical book with Manning planned to be published next year - like a mystery novel.(46:12) Luis shared the differences between working in Silicon Valley and Canada.(47:50) Closing segment.His Contact InfoWebsiteTwitterLinkedInYouTubeGitHubGoogle ScholarMediumHis Recommended ResourcesSebastian ThrunAndrew NgRana el Kaliouby"How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking" by Jordan Ellenberg"Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'NeilHere are the codes for free eBook copies of Luis' book "Grokking Machine Learning": gmldcr-D659, gmldcr-2512, gmldcr-0752, gmldcr-30A2, gmldcr-01E8. Additionally, use the code poddcast19 to receive a 40% discount of all Manning products!

On what is perceptible to AI, and AI controllers.    Subscribe at: paid.retraice.com    Details: AI, and the people who use it; rods, cones and 4-D perception; camouflage failure; prediction machines; `they'; they can see future-you—the Target debacle; today and tomorrow; reality and fitness; the fitness of the vertical illusion; minds connected and disconnected; the quantum chessboard; correction for Re8. Complete notes and video at: https://www.retraice.com/segments/re9   Air date: Saturday, 31st Oct. 2020, 12 : 10 PM Pacific/US.   Chapters:  00:00 AI, and the people who use it; 01:22 rods, cones and 4-D perception; 05:08 camouflage failure; 07:50 prediction machines; 11:36 `they'; 15:43 they can see future-you—the Target debacle; 17:43 today and tomorrow; 18:26 reality and fitness; 22:21 the fitness of the vertical illusion; 25:44 minds connected and disconnected; 27:23 the quantum chessboard; 39:11 correction for Re8.   References:      Agrawal, A., Gans, J., & Goldfarb, A. (2018). Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN: 978-1633695672. Searches:  https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-1633695672 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-1633695672 https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049211      Anderson, R. (2015). He who pays the AI calls the tune. (pp. 201–203). In Brockman (2015).      Bell, J. S. (1987). Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy. Cambridge, 2nd ed. ISBN: 0521523389. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=0521523389 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+0521523389 https://lccn.loc.gov/86032728      Brockman, J. (Ed.) (2015). What to Think About Machines That Think: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence. Harper Perennial. ISBN: 978-0062425652. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0062425652 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0062425652 https://lccn.loc.gov/2016303054      Dyson, G. (2015). Analog, the revolution that dares not speak its name. (pp. 255–256). In Brockman (2015).      Ellenberg, J. (2014). How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. Penguin. ISBN: 978-0143127536. Searches: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=978-0143127536 https://www.google.com/search?q=isbn+978-0143127536 https://lccn.loc.gov/2014005394      Gefter, A., & Hoffman, D. (2016/04/25). The case against reality. The Atlantic. Previously published in Quanta. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/ Retrieved 31 Oct 2020.      Jackson, R. E., & Cormack, L. K. (2008). Evolved navigation theory and the environmental vertical illusion. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29, 299–304. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cps/_files/cormack-pdf/12Evolved_navigation_theory2009.pdf Retrieved 29th Oct. 2020.      Retraice (2020/09/07). Re1: Three Kinds of Intelligence. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re1 Retrieved 22nd Sep. 2020.      Retraice (2020/10/28). Re8: Strange Machines. retraice.com. https://www.retraice.com/segments/re8 Retrieved 29th Oct. 2020.      Russell, B. (1992). Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. Routledge. First published in 1948. This edition 1992. ISBN: 0415083028. Different editions available at: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Human%20Knowledge%3A%20Its%20Scope%20and%20Limits   Copyright: 2020 Retraice, Inc.  https://retraice.com

Sorca Kelly-Scholte is Head of Pensions Solutions and Advisory for EMEA at a large asset management firm. She trained as an actuary, and spent time as an investment consultant before assuming her current role. She is a frequent writer on the topic of institutional asset allocation, strategy and portfolio construction. Our conversation covers her undergraduate degree in Mathematics, and how it taught her to think. We return to this when we discuss her current approach to asset allocation, particularly against the backdrop of a crisis, and how she is coaching her pension fund clients by reference to different models of best practice. We spend some time on how she embraced the challenge of speaking in public, and the people and habits that enabled her to build her confidence. We also turn to the question of gender diversity in finance and Sorca shares her experience as well as her vision for how things can be better.

Developing expertise in professional noticing of students’ mathematical thinking takes time and meaningful learning experiences. We used the LessonSketch platform to create a learning experience for secondary preservice teachers (PSTs) involving an approximation of teaching practice to formatively assess PSTs’ noticing skills of students’ mathematical thinking. Our study showed that approximations of teaching practice embedded within platforms like LessonSketch can enable mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) to carry out effective formative assessment of PSTs’ professional noticing of students’ mathematical thinking that is meaningful for both PSTs and MTEs. The experience itself as well as its design features and framework used with the assessment can be applied in the work of MTEs who develop teachers’ professional noticing skills of students’ mathematical thinking. Special Guests: Joel Amidon and Stephanie Casey.

In chapter number 6 of the podcast show ' 50 books each year ' Mijndert is reviewing; The Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg. If you want to learn how to win the lottery and which lottery to play then this is the book for you. Mijndert will read the examples that Jordan is providing in the book and tell you how to make the calculations. Mijndert is also reviewing with Jordan how stockbrokers work and how banks push their index funds. Do you want to know what the mathematical way of thinking about this is? Join the show, subscribe! Because reading 50 books per year is amazing and teaches us a lot! Want Mijndert to read and review a book? Go to www.50bookseachyear.com or contact us info@50booksperyear.com

This episode features two amazing educators who will happen to just love Math! Heather Ladd and Agnes Kiazolu join us to share their thoughts about how to engage and inspire our young Mathematicians as well as some concrete examples of the types of conversations parents can have with their children to promote Mathematical thinking. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exploringeducation/message

Math is having a moment. Never before, perhaps, has a graph loomed so large in our cultural consciousness, as we embrace the public health imperative to “flatten the curve.” Whether you’re a numbers whiz or think you would rather die of COVID-19 than revisit your high school math class, Jocelyn and Bradley will show you that the soul of mathematics is compassion. Fundamentally, math is not about numbers, but about relationships. Math is a tool for empathy, teaching us how our actions affect one another and enabling us to make informed decisions to take better care of each other. Math connects us, and at the same time, it helps us understand how we are connected. In this episode, the hosts discuss the unique status of mathematical knowledge as a means of thinking, interpreting, predicting, and intervening. In particular, they consider what we might call the numeracy gap—disparities in mathematical understanding—and how this gap has fueled conflicting interpretations of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. From risk calculations to exponential growth functions, math is the mental apparatus that allows us to project from what we are observing to what we will observe in the future, from our individual realities to our collective reality. When are you ever going to use algebra? Right now, friends. Right now. For further information: Johns Hopkins COVID-19 tracker: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 “Hold the Line,” by Yale epidemiologist Jonathan Smith: https://elemental.medium.com/hold-the-line-17231c48ff17Exponential growth:Coronavirus vs. every 2000s epidemic (Cary Huang): https://youtu.be/n4no04822NQExponential growth and epidemics (3Blue1Brown): https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrgSimulating an epidemic (3Blue1Brown): https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs Interactive graphs: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-trump-response.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ The story behind ‘flatten the curve,’ the defining chart of the coronavirus: https://www.fastcompany.com/90476143/the-story-behind-flatten-the-curve-the-defining-chart-of-the-coronavirus Modeling the pandemic: https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/modelers-struggle-to-predict-the-future-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-67261https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-are-sick-lost-february/608521/Further Reading:The Great Influenza, John M. Barry: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-History/dp/0143036491Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, John Allen Paulos: https://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences-ebook/A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, John Allen Paulos: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematician-Reads-Newspaper-Allen-Paulos-ebook/How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg: https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/...Contact Science! With Friends (especially if you’re a scientist interested in a lively conversation about your science and science story) at Gmail or Twitter!• Gmail: sciwithfriends@gmail.com• Twitter @SciWithFriends• Facebook: Science With FriendsScience! With Friends Podcast is created and hosted by Jocelyn Bosley (@SciTalker) and Bradley Nordell (@bradleynordell), Produced and edited by Vince Ruhl.

Everyone knows that coffee can help you think and focus and can even improve your mood – especially that first cup in the morning. Years ago, coffee advertising contained the tagline… “Coffee, the THINK drink.” But it just may be that all the research showing how good coffee and caffeine are for mental function is flawed. If you are a coffee drinker, you are going to want to hear this. http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2012/08/21/caffeine-the-silent-killer-of-emotional-intelligence/Then, we look at all the math you use in everyday life. Mathematician, Jordan Ellenberg, author of the book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (http://amzn.to/2uyMDx6) reveals just how important math is and how it is constantly changing. He also discusses how not to be tricked by statistics and numbers that are designed to mislead you.People do better work when they get a reward. It applies to people at work or kids at home – and it comes as no surprise. What’s interesting is that it actually depends on the type of reward. It doesn’t have to be a big reward, it just has to be the right reward to get people to do their best work. I’ll explain. Source: Dr. John Hoover, author of the book “The Art Of Constructive Confrontation” (https://amzn.to/2UcskBf)Why don’t diets work? Diet books and programs are as popular as ever but we continue to get heavier. Yoni Freedhoff, M.D., author of the book The Diet Fix (http://amzn.to/2vMM55m) explains the reasons why your next diet is likely doomed to fail and what works better to get the weight off and keep it off.

Mathematics is everywhere. We use numbers, quantities, values and measurements almost all the time. Counting and quantifying is part of almost everything that we do. An interesting question is how did it all start. When did humans start thinking mathematically and what is the origin of mathematical thinking. As we start tacking these questions, we stumble upon few more queries: how did our brain evolve to do mathematics; what are fundamental capacities that enable humans to do mathematical thinking; what are major milestones in the evolution of mathematical thinking and in the history of mathematical innovations; is mathematics discovered or is it invented. I invited Dr Keith Devlin to join me in this episode of Bridging the Gaps for a discussion that focuses on these questions. Dr Keith Devlin is the director of the Stanford Mathematics outreach project at Stanford University. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He has written 33 books and over 80 research articles. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 34.  Today we are looking at Effectively Using Games to Build Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning Today’s insight comes from Well Played: Building Mathematical Thinking Through Number Games & Puzzles by Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch.  As you hopefully know, I love Games. I grew up in a game playing family and still love playing games with my own children. So as I was preparing for a video I did recently over on my Vlog, The Recovering Traditionalist, I was reading back through the Well Played books.  There is a book for PreK-2 and one for 3-5. This paragraph from page 6 really made me stop and think about how we use games in the classroom.  Get all the info here: buildmathminds.com/34 

Che nesso c'è tra la statistica e la vittoria degli americani nella seconda guerra mondiale? La matematica serve veramente nella vita reale? Studiarla a scuola è l'unico modo di imparare qualcosa? Video su YouTube: https://youtu.be/kz43H5sjvZM Link libro "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking" di Jordan Ellenberg: https://amzn.to/2nmm2Tg

In this episode, I talk with mathematician and author Ben Orlin. Ben is the creator of the "Math With Bad Drawings" blog and similarly titled book, which I can't recommend highly enough.  In this episode, we talk about the book, misconceptions about mathematical aptitude, the importance of allowing yourself to be stuck with a problem, and more.  Learn more about the Brainjo Collective, a community of curious minds, at elitecognition.com/collective. For the show notes and links mentioned, go to elitecognition.com/orlin Learn more about the Brainjo Center for Neurology & Cognitive Enhancement at elitecognition.com.  

Developing Mathematical Thinking Through Problem Solving Presented by: Amie Albrecht Working mathematically is about more than knowing facts, recalling definitions and applying techniques to familiar problems. I teach a course at the University of South Australia to develop problem-solving skills in pre-service maths teachers (primary and middle school). We focus on mathematical processes, not any […]

How do young children (Reception age and below) develop their early mathematical thinking? How do those teaching them help the children build a platform of understanding? And where does maths fit in to the wider picture of childhood development? Two experts in the field explain. Show notes Taking part in the discussion are: Dr Sue Gifford, Mathematics Education Department, Roehampton University Viv Lloyd, NCETM Assistant Director, Primary and Early Years Mathematics Steve McCormack, NCETM Communications Director This podcast complements the information on Early Years maths on the NCETM website. Episode chapters 07:48 - Comparison 10:38 - Cardinality 14:18 - Subitising 18:38 - Conservation 20:38 - Composition 24:18 - Pattern 26:28 - Shape and Space 27:53 - Measures 31:38 - Where maths fits in with other early learning You may also be interested in this article on subitising, from a recent issue of the NCETM Primary Magazine. Information on Maths Hubs work in the area of Early Years maths.

Ron Eppes, Intel Community Engagement Manager: Ron is the perfect first guest for our podcast! While the sound quality isn’t great (we get better with time, promise) his stories and love of community are inspiring! Ron is a STEM Rockstar who works just down the road a few miles at Intel Corporation where he is passionate about ensuring Intel is a great corporate citizen. His story is interesting as he shares how someone important in Ron’s life with no apparent attachment to STEM had such a big influence on him ultimately pursuing a STEM career. Show Notes Corporate involvement in STEM education benefits everyone, with efforts such as this: Twelve Months of Math Ron’s Book Recommendation that relates to his belief that math is fun and powerful in engineering as well as everyday activities such as his running example:    How to Not be Wrong, the power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg                       Community Involvement and Recognition in STEM STEMYS:  Excellence in STEM Awards Ron Eppes Ronald.d.eppes@intel.com While it wasn’t mentioned in the interview, we thought listeners would enjoy Ron’s Ted Talk: Ron’s Weird Ideas about Math (TEDxABQED, March 27 2015)  

Ron Eppes, Intel Community Engagement Manager: Ron is the perfect first guest for our podcast! While the sound quality isn’t great (we get better with time, promise) his stories and love of community are inspiring! Ron is a STEM Rockstar who works just down the road a few miles at Intel Corporation where he is passionate about ensuring Intel is a great corporate citizen. His story is interesting as he shares how someone important in Ron’s life with no apparent attachment to STEM had such a big influence on him ultimately pursuing a STEM career. Show Notes Corporate involvement in STEM education benefits everyone, with efforts such as this: Twelve Months of Math Ron’s Book Recommendation that relates to his belief that math is fun and powerful in engineering as well as everyday activities such as his running example:    How to Not be Wrong, the power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg                       Community Involvement and Recognition in STEM STEMYS:  Excellence in STEM Awards Ron Eppes Ronald.d.eppes@intel.com While it wasn’t mentioned in the interview, we thought listeners would enjoy Ron’s Ted Talk: Ron’s Weird Ideas about Math (TEDxABQED, March 27 2015)  

You might think you're not a "math person," but maybe that's because math doesn't mean what you think it means. Mathematical and logical thinking can open up new ways of thinking about everything from social and political issues to art to even gender. And on this episode, Dr. Eugenia Cheng, author and Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, explains how to tap into it. More reading from Curiosity: Search Engines Make You Feel Smarter Than You Really Are Chicago's Hotel EMC2 Is Themed Around Math's Greatest Woman Teachers Can Spread Math Anxiety To Their Students Meet Sabrina Pasterski, The 23-Year-Old "New Einstein" Additional resources discussed: Dr. Eugenia Cheng (Official Website) "How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics" "Beyond Infinity: An Expedition into the Outer Limits of Mathematics" "The Art of Logic in an Illogical World" In Defense of Polymaths | Harvard Business Review Toni Morrison's tweet about writing books Why Don't Figure Skaters Get Dizzy When They Spin? | Scientific American The Brutal Neuroscience of Figure Skating: How Spinning Athletes Overcome Dizziness | LiveScience See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On The Gist, Devin Nunes probably doesn’t know squat.  In the interview, Democrats hold most of the Senate seats up for grabs in this year’s midterms, which means they have a lot to lose. But importantly, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg says election predictions often fail to account for national mood. Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.  In the Spiel, Mike defends his bougie laundry routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On The Gist, Devin Nunes probably doesn’t know squat.  In the interview, Democrats hold most of the Senate seats up for grabs in this year’s midterms, which means they have a lot to lose. But importantly, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg says election predictions often fail to account for national mood. Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.  In the Spiel, Mike defends his bougie laundry routine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vale a pena continuar a investir tempo/recursos em algo pelo simples fato que já está quase completo? Aqueles que mais estudam são os mais dedicados… ou os que mais precisam estudar? Veja bem. Curte o VB? Ajude-nos a mantê-lo no ar; seja nosso padrinho(a) a partir de R$1 por mês. Contate-nos por nosso WhatsApp (19-98908-1238) e/ou email: vejabem@vejabempodcast.com.br Encontre-nos também no: Facebook, Twitter e YouTube Referências: Monty Hall – Video How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking – (livro) – patrocinado How To Count Past Infinity – Video Behavioral Economics – Artigo What's the most counter-intuitive thing you've learned? (Quora) Abraham Wald (Blindagem dos aviões)

Vale a pena continuar a investir tempo/recursos em algo pelo simples fato que já está quase completo? Aqueles que mais estudam são os mais dedicados… ou os que mais precisam estudar? Veja bem. Curte o VB? Ajude-nos a mantê-lo no ar; seja nosso padrinho(a) a partir de R$1 por mês. Contate-nos por nosso WhatsApp (19-98908-1238) e/ou email: vejabem@vejabempodcast.com.br Encontre-nos também no: Facebook, Twitter e YouTube Referências: Monty Hall – Video How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking – (livro) – patrocinado How To Count Past Infinity – Video Behavioral Economics – Artigo What’s the most counter-intuitive thing you’ve learned? (Quora) Abraham Wald (Blindagem dos aviões)

Lyn English from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, discusses her career in mathematics education, her editorship of Mathematical Thinking and Learning, and current issues related to STEM education. Lyn's professional website See the comments for references mentioned during the interview

Allison Hintz from the University of Washington at Bothell and Kersti Tyson from the University of New Mexico discuss their article, "Complex listening: Supporting students to listen as mathematical sense-makers," published in Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Volume 17. Allison's Professional Webpage Kersti's Researchgate Page Listening Study Group leader Andrea English (Andrea.English@ed.ac.uk) See the comments for references mentioned during the interview.

The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view... Experience the excitement and energy of Las Vegas each weekend on VEGAS NEVER SLEEPS with Steven Maggi.

Coding is not for everybody. We admit it. But we should all take at least a peek under the hood of the computers and devices that power our lives. It's empowering. Starting at a screen full of cryptic code is daunting, confusing, and might just well up some latent math anxiety. That's how New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi felt, which is exactly why she decided to dive in head first. She signed up for a one-day computer programming intensive. This episode chronicle's how it went.   In short: It began a jumble of doubt and worry with baggage from high school math holding her back. "I am going to have to commit an act of coding to bring my anxiety level down a notch," she decided by late morning during the theory portion of the day. Yet within hours, Manoush had made a mostly functioning web app for her kids. "The mere act of making it myself made it less scary," she concludes.   Along the way she gains a greater reverence for the language of our machines and for the people fluent in them. Manoush wrote about this wild ride in more detail here, when a previous version of this show first aired.   Also in this episode:  Keith Devlin, author of "Introduction to Mathematical Thinking" and many other books, describes the kind of thinker that tech firms are desperately looking for. The new tech economy needs mathematicians, but he says, of the kind of math that is not so much about numbers, as problem solving and pattern recognition. These skills can be learned! If you liked this story, please click here to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / RSS to find our other episodes. We're on Twitter too: @NewTechCity Now watch Manoush learn to code, despite her 10th grade math teacher!   (This episode is a longer version, with additional information, of our show that aired on January 8.)

"The point of math isn't solving problems," Jordan Ellenberg told me, "it's understanding stuff." And all too often these days we're misunderstanding stuff, even if we have more numbers than ever to work with. Jordan and I discussed some of the mathematical muddles we get into in politics, economics, finance and scientific research and how we can do better. He's a professor of math at the University of Wisconsin and the author of the acclaimed new book "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking."

The book discussed in this interview is How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Penguin Press, 2014), by Jordan Ellenberg.  This is one of those rare books that belong on the reading list of every educated person, especially those who love mathematics, but more importantly, those who hate it.  Ellenberg succeeds in explaining the value of mathematical reasoning without ever needing to go into technical detail, which makes the book ideal for those who want to learn why mathematics is so important.  What makes the book doubly delightful is Ellenberg’s writing style; he intersperses the math with amusing anecdotes, dispensed with a sense of humor rarely found in books such as this.  The book is chock-full of OMG moments; the introductory anecdote about Abraham Wald and the missing bullet holes absolutely whets the appetite for more and Ellenberg never fails to deliver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The book discussed in this interview is How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Penguin Press, 2014), by Jordan Ellenberg.  This is one of those rare books that belong on the reading list of every educated person, especially those who love mathematics, but more importantly, those who hate it.  Ellenberg succeeds in explaining the value of mathematical reasoning without ever needing to go into technical detail, which makes the book ideal for those who want to learn why mathematics is so important.  What makes the book doubly delightful is Ellenberg’s writing style; he intersperses the math with amusing anecdotes, dispensed with a sense of humor rarely found in books such as this.  The book is chock-full of OMG moments; the introductory anecdote about Abraham Wald and the missing bullet holes absolutely whets the appetite for more and Ellenberg never fails to deliver. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Slate and Wired. His latest book is “How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” and he was here to speak at Town Hall Seattle. Jordan Ellenberg talks about ideal airport arrival time, the joy of uncertainty and how better to argue with your spouse.

The Fed continues tapering. Amazon introduces a smartphone. And FedEx hits a new high.  Our analysts discuss those stories and share three stocks on their radar.  Plus, Jordan Ellenberg shares some insights from his book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking.

Chances are that when you think about math—which, for most of us, happens pretty infrequently—you don't think of it in anything like the way that Jordan Ellenberg does. Ellenberg is a rare scholar who is both a math professor (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and a novelist. And in his fascinating new book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, he deploys analyses of poetry, politics, and even religion in a bold recasting of what math is in the first place.For Ellenberg, the stuff you hated about math in high school isn't the core of the thing. He's emphatic that mathematics isn't simply about the calculations involving, you know, numbers; rather, it's a highly nuanced approach to solving problems that we all, unavoidably, encounter. Ellenberg's chapters range from showing how mathematical thinking undermines many popular proofs for the existence of God (Paley's design argument, Pascal's wager), to explaining how math helps us understand why smoking causes lung cancer (contrary to claims by one early statistician who actually argued that the causation might be reversed—that lung cancer might cause smoking!).On the show this week we talked to Ellenberg about his book, and math: why you’re probably thinking about it all wrong, and why it’s so powerful.This episode also features a short interview with Tasneem Raja, author of the must-read new article "We Can Code It: Why computer literacy is key to winning the 21st century" in Mother Jones, and a discussion of new findings about autism and possibly how to stop it—by making brain cells better able to communicate with one another.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds

Sam Otten from the University of Missouri discusses the artcle, "The mathematical nature of reasoning-and-proving opportunities in geometry textbooks," published by the journal Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Volume 16. (Co-authors: Gilbertson, Males, Clark) Sam's Professional Website Ashli's Podcast, Infinite Tangents See the comments for references mentioned during the interview. Complete list of episodes

The first podcast discusses a common challenge new consultants face: how to show strong analytic skills on an engagement. Here I discuss one of my earlier engagements as a principal where I managed a very introverted lawyer. Despite her non-quantitative degree, reserved demeanor and being placed on a piece of work which was not, at first, open to much creativity, she developed an eminently analytic way to solve a significant problem impacting the entire engagement. This is probably one of the most concise, tailored and innovative pieces of analyses I had ever seen in my career. What makes a consultant analytic, is not the type of work that lends itself to analytic reasoning, but the way you approach what may seem to be a mundane problem. In fact, no sector or engagement is boring if examined appropriately.

Dana Cox from Miami University discusses the article, "Similarity in middle school mathematics: At the crossroads of geometry and number," from Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Volume 15. link to article 50 free downloads of the article from Taylor & Francis Dana's Professional Website See the comments for references mentioned in the interview.

Corey Webel from Montclair State University discusses the article, "High school students' goals for working together in mathematics class: Mediating the practical rationality of studenting," from Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Volume 15. link to article Corey's Professional Website See the comments for references mentioned in the interview.

Mandy Jansen from the University of Delaware discusses the article, "Detecting students' experiences of discontinuities between Middle School and High School mathematics programs: Learning during boundary crossing," appearing in Mathematical Thinking and Learning, Volume 14. (Co-authors: Herbel-Eisenmann, Smith) link to article Mandy's Professional Website See the comments for references mentioned in the interview.