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Towards A Steam Underpinned Industrial Digitalisation Curriculum, Kamaran Fathulla
Towards A Steam Underpinned Industrial Digitalisation Curriculum, Kamaran Fathulla
The STEAM Journal
This article reports on an innovative approach for designing a STEAM curriculum aimed at giving graduates the necessary skills to meet the challenges set out by onset of the Fourth Industrial revolution (ID 4.0: Industrial Digitalisation). This curriculum has been developed as part of a hefce (Higher Education Funding Council, UK) funded project at the University of Lincoln, UK.
Academia Will Not Save You: Stories Of Being Continually “Underrepresented”, Lynette Deaun Guzmán
Academia Will Not Save You: Stories Of Being Continually “Underrepresented”, Lynette Deaun Guzmán
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
My entire life I have had to navigate educational structures labeled (by other people) as “underrepresented” in my fields—mathematics and mathematics education. As many people who are similarly labeled in this way know, this meant I had to navigate oppressive structures that positioned me as lesser (e.g., white supremacy, patriarchy). Making sense of these repeated interactions, I wrote my dissertation as a series of three articles, each prefaced with an essay that situated a broader social, cultural, and political context and also connected to my lived experiences navigating academia. These essays were some of my most personal academic writing, and …
Fun With Math On Valentine's Day, Kristin T. Kennedy
Fun With Math On Valentine's Day, Kristin T. Kennedy
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
This article describes various love-themed activities the department of mathematics at Bryant University hosted during a college-wide celebration of love called "The Arts and Science of Love", held during Valentine's Day 2018. Inspired by Susan D'Agustino's article "To Fall in Love with Math, Do This" [1], Bryant mathematicians came up with many creative and engaging activities that brought mathematics and its practitioners closer to the students on campus. Much fun was had.