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I’m Just Not a Math Person…
We as mathematicians seem practically hell-bent on removing the phrase “I’m just not a math person” from students’ vocabularies. Maybe that’s why they scream it so loudly and defiantly? Math has so many tactical advantages over sports and the arts. … Continue reading
Posted in attracting math majors, math in the media, math problems, outreach, Uncategorized
Tagged encouragement, recruitment, students
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Stirred, Not Shaken
Screw lemonade. If life gives you lemons, find someone who got vodka and make a martini.
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Tagged career, math community, online learning, research, Students in crisis, teaching, Work-Life Balance
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Submitting
Recently, I have been re-reading Michel Houellebecq’s 2015 novel Submission. It’s about a hedonistic literature professor who sleeps with his students, has the diet of a frat boy, and occasionally does “work” researching an obscure (at least, to me) 19th-century … Continue reading
Posted in bias, books, elections, math in the media, teaching evaluations, tenure, Uncategorized, work-life balance
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