Category Archives: Faculty Experiences

The Third Year of “On Teaching and Learning Mathematics”

Posted on September 5, 2017 by

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 published since our previous year in review article. Over the … Continue reading →

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To Active Learning and Beyond: Attending to Student Thinking AND Student Experience in Active-Learning Math Classes

Posted on August 7, 2017 by

By Jess Ellis Hagman, Contributing Editor, Colorado State University On a recent trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, I met a really cool woman named Anna Sale who runs a podcast called Death, Sex, and Money (check it out). In … Continue reading →

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Teaching in a Collaborative Classroom

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

By Saúl A. Blanco, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University For several years I’ve been incorporating active-learning and inquiry-based learning activities in my teaching. There is ample documented evidence of the benefits of these approaches for students, but equally … Continue reading →

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Student Evaluations Ratings of Teaching: What Every Instructor Should Know

Posted on April 17, 2017 by

By Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University What happens to the data from your teaching evaluations? Who sees the data? Are your numbers compared with other data? What interpretations or conclusions result?  How well informed is everyone, including you, about the … Continue reading →

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Aspirations and Ideals, Struggles and Reality

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

By Benjamin Braun, Editor-in-Chief Two of my favorite pieces of mathematical writing are recent essays: Francis Su’s January 2017 MAA Retiring Presidential Address “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”, and Federico Ardila-Mantilla’s November 2016 AMS Notices article “Todos Cuentan: Cultivating Diversity in … Continue reading →

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