Yours truly talking about voting paradoxes
Since 1985, the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been funding the Sonia Kovalevsky days, which are math programs for high school or middle school girls hosted at universities and colleges. This past Saturday, we had an SK day here at Bates, and in this post I will talk a little bit about the experience.
A few weeks ago, IBM premiered their new iPad app, The Minds of Modern Mathematics. This is an interactive timeline spanning from 1000 to 1950, with bios of famous mathematicians and their important results. Many of you have seen a poster version of this in your respective math department, although the poster version (at least the original one) was called The Men of Modern Mathematics. The poster is even included with the app. In this post, I will write a little about what I like and don’t like about this app. Continue reading
The math major is not always the most popular one, especially at small liberal arts school like mine (there are some exceptions, of course). There are many people out there who think about how to attract more students to the major and how to retain them. Among the successful ones, I count Michael Dorff, from Brigham Young University, as one of the pioneers. I took a short course from him in the 2011 Joint Math Meetings, and there were a lot of suggestions that I thought were excellent. My favorite: create a sense of community. In this post, I will focus on how to achieve this by giving students stuff. Continue reading
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