Category Archives: culture

Decolonize Academia #KūKiaʻiMauna

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Piper

If you follow me on social media, you will know that lately I’ve been posting almost exclusively about the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project that is supposed to be built on/in Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaiʻi. I’ve never … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in culture, equity, feminist theory, history of mathematics, math education, teaching | 1 Comment