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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

2021

Teaching

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Work-Life Imbalance In The Time Of Covid-19, Rachel Epstein, Caroline Haddad, Emek Kose, Melissa Sutherland Jul 2021

Work-Life Imbalance In The Time Of Covid-19, Rachel Epstein, Caroline Haddad, Emek Kose, Melissa Sutherland

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Four women mathematicians at various stages of their careers at public liberal arts institutions share their struggles and challenges in their professional and personal lives during the pandemic.


Permission To Add: Math-Teaching Limericks, Marion D. Cohen Jan 2021

Permission To Add: Math-Teaching Limericks, Marion D. Cohen

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Throughout my years and decades of being a teacher, I have written limericks about every course I’ve taught, and sometimes courses I haven’t taught but reviewed textbooks in. Here I share several of these limericks.


Teaching From The Unknown, Jon Jacobsen Jan 2021

Teaching From The Unknown, Jon Jacobsen

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The goal of teaching is to transform our students' understanding, much as the goal of acting is to transform the audience's reality. In this article we use the context of mathematics to explore connections between teaching and acting and how such connections can help our students learn not only mathematics, but about the nature of mathematics.