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Girls Talk Math: Not Your Ordinary Math Camp

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Brian Katz

Guest Post by Francesca Bernardi & Katrina Morgan girlstalkmath@unc.edu http://girlstalkmath.web.unc.edu/ Programs supporting girls in STEM are becoming more and more common. But we believe there is a gap in these offerings: General STEM programs tend to leave out the M, … Continue reading →

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Toward humanizing undergraduate mathematics education: A re-imagining through historical perspectives in mathematics

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Luis A. Leyva

This blog post was inspired from my reading of Sara Hottinger’s book, Inventing the Mathematician: Gender, Race, and Our Cultural Understanding of Mathematics (2016). Hottinger’s book advanced my thinking about how cultural contexts of mathematics perpetuate gendered, racialized, and other … Continue reading →

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