More Linear Algebra, Please
By Drew Armstrong, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Miami Anyone who teaches mathematics in the US knows that the quality of education could be better, but we also know that the...
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Conventional Courses are Not Enough for Future High School Teachers
By Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska – Lincoln and Heather Howell, Educational Testing Service Consider how you would respond to two different versions of a question. In the first, you are asked to...
View ArticleIntegrating Computer Science in Math: The Potential Is Great, But So Are The...
By Emmanuel Schanzer, Bootstrap Recent calls to bring Computer Science to K-12 schools have reached a fever pitch. Groups like Code.org and Girls Who Code have become household names, having raised...
View ArticleWhat is an Experimental Math Course and Why Should We Care?
By: Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University What is the first meaningful mathematics problem you remember solving? For me, it was the nine dots, four lines puzzle. When my fourth grade teacher assigned it...
View ArticleThe Third Year of “On Teaching and Learning Mathematics”
By Benjamin Braun, Editor-in-Chief, University of Kentucky Summer 2017 brought the third anniversary of On Teaching and Learning Mathematics and with it our annual review of the articles we have...
View ArticleThe MAA Instructional Practices Guide
By Benjamin Braun, University of Kentucky In December 2017, the MAA released the Instructional Practices Guide (IP Guide), for which I served on the Steering Committee as a lead writer. The IP Guide is...
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Writing Good Questions for the Internet Era
Jeff Suzuki CUNY Brooklyn The forced conversion to distance learning in Spring 2020 caught most of us off-guard. One of the biggest problems we face is the existence of free or freemium online...
View ArticleMathematics as Logic
by Mark Saul Maybe it is obvious, but it is something I’ve come to appreciate only after years of experience: mathematics is logic driven, and teaching and learning mathematics is centered on teaching...
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Access To Epidemic Modeling
Kurt Kreith and Alvin Mendle, University of California, Davis Covid-19 has left teachers seeking topics that are both engaging and lend themselves to online instruction. As a guiding force for the...
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Three foundational theorems of elementary school math
By Ben Blum-Smith, Contributing Editor This post discusses three very familiar facts from grade-school mathematics. In spite of their familiarity, I believe they tend to go under-appreciated, at every...
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