March 2025 Ben Moynihan, Executive Director of the Algebra Project, Inc. There are perennial questions that animate me and colleagues in the Algebra Project [1]: How well is the United States of America serving K-12 students in the teaching and learning of mathematics? What are the perspectives, data, and analysesRead More →
March 2025 Donna Fernandez, Co-Director of Alliance of Indigenous Math Circles Nalyana, a high school student at Navajo Preparatory School, in New Mexico, admitted that her last school year was hard because she was behind in math. She had been staying after school to get tutoring but this made herRead More →
January 2025 Frances Anderson (University of Nebraska-Omaha) Those were the best days of my life: the glory years, I call them. How do you ever say goodbye to the “job” that gave you meaning, each day? The job that reminded you that you were valuable, you meant something, and thatRead More →
December 2024 Mark Saul India commands the attention of the visitor as no other place I’ve been. Every stroll, every taxi ride, every meal brings new sensations: colors, tastes, sounds, aromas… One friend described her initial visit as ‘sensory overload’. Dust. Dust on the yellow-and-black motorized rickshaws putting along pastRead More →
November 2024 Benjamin Braun, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Kentucky, benjamin.braun@uky.edu For many mathematicians working in Master’s and Doctoral-granting departments, training and mentoring regarding graduate advising is done in ad hoc and informal ways. As a result, many new advisors work in some degree of isolation as they developRead More →
October 2024 Anisah Nu’man, Spelman College Naiomi Cameron, Spelman College Anne Marie Marshall, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Nikira Walter, Spelman College Kyndal Witherspoon, Spelman College “With the standard-based grading, this course helped me grow academically by keeping me tenacious. At the beginning of this course, I was getting extremely frustrated;Read More →
This interview, with a graduate student in Ukraine, was conducted by Mark Saul on 17 February 2024. It speaks for itself. Questions: Let’s start with you. Where did you grow up? Go to School? I have always lived in Kyiv. I found my love for mathematics early, and went to aRead More →
July 2024 Leslie Myint (Macalester College) “How are you?” This is always a challenging question to ask at the end of the semester because invariably, the answer is one that conveys immense fatigue. Students list the papers, projects, and exams remaining. Teachers list the assignments left to grade, and classRead More →
July 1, 2024 Cathy Kessel Back in the 1990s, there was a lot of enthusiasm about discrete mathematics. Its applications were growing. During the past 30 years, discrete mathematics has grown rapidly and has become a significant area of mathematics. Increasingly, discrete mathematics is the mathematics that is used byRead More →
June 2024 Ted Coe and Catherine A. Roberts Catherine: After seven years as the executive director at the American Mathematical Society and a short stint at the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, I am now getting back into collegiate teaching. As an applied mathematician keenly interested in mathematics education,Read More →
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