In this paper we report our findings of college students’ images of mathematicians and we reflect on different methodologies used to assess this information. The study reported in this paper was conducted in two stages. During the first stage, we asked 179 college students to “draw a mathematician” and also asked them to list five characteristics and five careers for a mathematician. In the second stage of the study, we conducted four focus group interviews with a total of twelve college students. During the focus group interviews, we showed the students 16 photos of real people and asked them to determine which they think are mathematicians and which are not. We found that college students do hold certain stereotypic images of mathematicians and that different perspectives arose based on the different research methodologies. In this paper, we argue for the need to go beyond relying solely on the “draw a mathematician” test and we conclude with a discussion on the implications that stereotypic images of mathematicians have on the mathematical workforce. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 10 Number 1 (January 2020) Katrina Piatek-Jimenez, Miranda Nouhan, and Michaela Williams 67

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大学生对数学家和数学职业的印象

在本文中，我们报告了我们对大学生数学家形象的发现，并反思了用于评估此信息的不同方法。本文报道的研究分两个阶段进行。在第一阶段，我们要求179名大学生“画数学家”，还要求他们列出数学家的五个特征和五个职业。在研究的第二阶段，我们对总共12名大学生进行了4次焦点小组访谈。在焦点小组访谈中，我们向学生展示了16张真实人物的照片，并请他们确定他们认为哪些是数学家，哪些不是。我们发现大学生确实持有某些数学家的刻板印象，并且基于不同的研究方法出现了不同的观点。在本文中，我们认为有必要超越仅仅依靠“吸引数学家”的考验，最后讨论数学家的刻板印象对数学劳动力的影响。人文数学杂志第10卷第1期（2020年1月）卡特里娜·皮亚特克·希梅内斯，米兰达·诺汉和米迦勒·威廉姆斯67