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News

• Assistant Professor Muath Obaidat Proposes A Better, Safer Way to Log-In
• John Jay's Gateway Math Courses See A Boost In Student Success
• eWitness, John Jay Professor Fight Fake Photos And Video
• John Jay Students Win Major Prizes At AT&T Competition For Women In Technology
• Grad Student Jennifer Holst ('18) Is Motivated To Make The Internet Safer
• Professor Dante Tawfeeq, Fulbright Scholar, Looks At STEM Education In Namibia
• Subtracting Fear & Adding Fun: A New Approach To Mathematics
• Spring 2015 John Jay Research News

 

Last updated 01/01/2020

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Interesting Articles and More

Animations and Videos

• Programming Comic
• Base 60 (sexagesimal) - Numberphile
• How Big is Graham's Number? (feat Ron Graham)
• Graham's Number - Numberphile
• Calculus in 20 Minutes by Professor Edward Burger
• Las matemáticas nos hacen más libres y menos manipulables - Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón - this is a great talk about mathematics from a Spanish mathematician
• 3Blue1Brown YouTube Channel - may have one of the best presentations of mathematics in all of YouTube.
• Riemann Hypothesis
• The First Legally Permitted 3D Printed House in the USA with SQ4D
• Giant 3D-printer builds a TWO-STORY house in one piece
• The FIRST 3D Printed House in America! (SQ4D)

 

Articles

The New York Times

Education

Steven Strogatz on the Elements of Math

 

2021

• Can Free Community College Unite a Divided U.S.?
• From Struggling with the AMC to Writing it: How one Math Professor Learned to "Wrestle with Math"
• 50 Years of Pascal
• Can the Biases in Facial Recognition Be Fixed; Also, Should They?
• Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
• 2 Win Abel Prize for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science
• Statistics Postdoc Tames Decades-Old Geometry Problem
• For 50 Years, Tech Companies Have Tried to Increase Diversity by Fixing People Instead of the System

 

2020

• Fact Check: Statistical analysis supporting pro-Trump Supreme Court case is 'ludicrous'
• Pandemic Has Accelerated Demands for a More Skilled Work Force
• How A Physics Department Became One Of The Country's Largest Producers Of Majors
• Why America is bad at math
• Want a Better Way to Think About Gender? Use Math
• John Horton Conway, a 'Magical Genius' in Math, Dies at 82
• Ronald L. Graham, Who Unlocked the Magic of Numbers, Dies at 84
• This Professor's 'Amazing' Trick Makes Quadratic Equations Easier
• The Best Reason to Go to College
• No one is born 'bad at maths'. It took me a long time to learn this lesson
• Is it time to kill calculus?
• For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Number 42
• A math problem stumped experts for 50 years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days
• Google Lens addking 'Homework' filter for solving math equations, science problems
• Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
• Proposal #3 to Change CS Education to Reduce Inequity: Call a truce on academic misconduct cases for programming assignments
• ZME Science: The Hidden World of Mathematics in The Simpsons
• Using math formulas to predict earthquakes
• The programming language that doesn't want to die
• Calculated risk? Smokers good at math are more likely to want to quit
• In person, online classes or a mix: Colleges' fall 2020 coronavirus reopening plans, detailed
• This Is What I Want To Tell My White Professors When They Ask, 'How Are You Today?'
• Carnegie Mellon tool automatically turns math into pictures
• All In this together? Don't forget the community college students
• Mathematics can save lives at sea
• Mathematics trailblazer inspires fellow female students
• An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries
• EDUCAUSE COVID-19 QuickPoll Results: Grading and Proctoring
• How Parents Can Support College Students' Online Learning
• To cook a perfect steak, use math

 

2019

• Math: The Most Powerful Civics Lesson You've Never Had
• Weighing alternatives to the algebra-calculus path
• The Hard Part of Computer Science? Getting Into Class
• Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern
• Why Mathematicians Hate That Viral Equation
• The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

 

2018

• Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help
• The Misguided Drive to Measure 'Learning Outcomes'

 

2017

• Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
• Mayor de Blasio, CUNY to start $20M program to double tech graduates by 2022
• Who Invented 'Zero'?
• Ending the Curse of Remedial Math
• As Coding Boot Camps Closes, the Field Faces a Reality Check
• Yellow-Light Crusader Fined for Doing Math Without a License
• Fending Off Math Anxiety
• No Such Thing as a Math Person

 

2016

• Times I Have Actually Used Math Since High School
• Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
• Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch?

 

2015

• Don't Expect Math to Make Sense
• Kids do a lot better when schools ban smartphones
• Math Anxiety? A Reporter Knows the Subject All Too Well

 

2013

• China still has the fastest supercomputer in the world
• When Numbers Mislead
• Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design
• A Crash Course in Playing the Numbers
• Missing From Science Class
• Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
• By 2023, a Changed World in Energy
• Power in 2030: The Roads We May Take

 

2012

• How to Be a Better Test-Taker
• For Teachers, Shame Is No Solution
• Demand for software engineers keeps climbing -- and so do the salaries
• A Possible Breakthrough in Explaining a Mathematical Riddle
• Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi

 

2011

• How to Fix Our Math Education
• Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure
• Change We Can Believe In
• What I Learned at School
• One Math Museum, Many Variables
• Your So-Called Education
• In Honor of Teachers

 

2010

• In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks
• The Pen That Never Forgets
• The Hilbert Hotel
• On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery'
• Division and its Discontents
• It Slices, It Dices
• Square Dancing
• Finding Your Roots
• Mathematics and Roots
• Power Tools
• From Fish to Infinity
• NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered The Art Of Email Flaming
• Teachers Always Show Up
• More on the Lottery: Numerology and Randomness

 

2009

• A Math Paradox: The Widening Gap Between High School and College Math
• Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems
• Teach Your Teachers Well
• Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them
• Formula for higher U.S. math scores
• Mammogram Math
• For Decades, Puzzling People With Mathematics

 

2008

• Gut Instinct's Surprising Role in Math

 

1984

• Solving the Mathematical Riddle of Chaos

 

1948

• The Purpose of Education

 

Last updated 01/18/2021