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Journal for Mathematics and the Arts Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Mathematics of Fiber Arts Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Carolyn Yackel,sarah-marie belcastro
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A Non-Euclidean Story or: How to Persist When Your Geometry Doesn’t Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Rami Luisto
Too little mathematics has been written in prose. Thus we prove here, via a fantasy novellette, that a locally L-bilipschitz mapping $f \colon X \to Y$ between uniformly Ahlfors $q$-regular, complete and locally compact path-metric spaces $X$ and $Y$ is an $L$-bilipschitz map when $Y$ is simply connected. The motivation for such a result arises from studying the asymptotic values of BLD-mappings with
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An Urgent Plea for More Graduate Programs in Statistics Education Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 David Drew,Sam Behseta,Cherie Ichinose
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Life of a Working Ramsey Theorist: Conversation With Thomas C. Brown Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kyle Singh,Veselin Jungic,Jun Mei
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Decisions, Decisions: How Should The Votes Be Counted? Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Michaeil Caulfield
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Carroll’s Symbolic Attack on Mathematical Symbolism Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Firdous Mala
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A Note on a Mathematician-Cyclist: Anna Kiesenhofer Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Man Siu
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On the Mathematics of Social Distancing Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Robert Haas
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Mindfully Navigating the Wind and Water: Defining the Currents of Metaphors that Interfere with Excellence in Mathematics Education Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Rob Blom,Olivia Lu,Chunlei Lu
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Special Issue Call for Papers: Mathematics and Society Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Carrie Eaton,Rachel Roca,Nancy Rodriguez,Tian Wong
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What's So Great About Non-Orientable Manifolds? Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Michael McCormick
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Mathematics for the Masses: Door-to-Door Missionaries of Math and Twelve-Step Recovery Programs Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Daniel Helman
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A Reflection on Growth Mindset and Meritocracy Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Rachel Petrik,Julianne Vega,Andrés Vindas-Meléndez
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A Cognitive View of "Pandemic Meditation" (A Mathematical Visual Poem) Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kazmier Maslanka
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The Nature of Numbers: Real Computing Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Bradley Lucier
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In Search of Star Clusters: An Introduction to the K-Means Algorithm Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Marcio Nascimento
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Navigating a Calculus Course During a Pandemic: A USMA Perspective Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Shane Smith,Tyson Walsh,Lee Evans
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Teaching Preservice Teachers in the Time of COVID: What’s Worth Keeping? Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kathy Sun,Jennifer Ruef,Kathleen Stoehr,Madeline Ahearn
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Nilpotents Leave No Trace: A Matrix Mystery for Pandemic Times Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Eric Grinberg
Reopening a cold case, inspector Echelon, high-ranking in the Row Operations Center, is searching for a lost linear map, known to be nilpotent. When a partially decomposed matrix is unearthed, he reconstructs its reduced form, finding it singular. But were its roots nilpotent? 1. Early In the Investigation In teaching Linear Algebra, the first topic often is row reduction [1, 7], including Row Reduced
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Teiresias, Proportions, and Sexual Pleasure Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Spyros Missiakoulis
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Makers Do Math! Legitimizing Informal Mathematical Practices Within Making Contexts Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Amber Simpson,Signe Kastberg
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Plane Figurate Number Proofs Without Words Explained With Pattern Blocks Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Gunhan Caglayan
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Book Review: Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History by Stephen Chrisomalis Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Milton Rosa,Daniel Orey
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Twisting the Cube: Art-Inspired Mathematical Explorations Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Lingguo Bu
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The Problem of Words: Learning to Teach Mathematics When Numbers and Languages Mix Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Gladys Krause
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An Amends Letter From a Recovering Mean Professor Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Feryal Alayont
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Lessons Learned from the Disorder of Operations Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Egan Chernoff
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COVID-19, Vaccines, and Decision Theory Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Michael Lewis
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Unmotivated, Depressed, Anxious: Impact of the COVID-19 Emergency Transition to Remote Learning on Undergraduates’ Math Anxiety Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Melinda Lanius,Tiffany Jones,Samantha Kao,Tynan Lazarus,Alex Farrell
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A Mother-Mathematician Meets the COVID-19 Era Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Bonnie Jacob
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Happiness in Mathematics Education: The Experiences of Preservice Elementary Teachers Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jeffrey Pair,Kent Dinh
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Middle School Students Generating Mathematical Problems from a Real-life Situation Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 David Coffland,Ying Xie
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Seeing Mathematics and Seeing Mathematicians Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Huber Huber,Gizem Karaali
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Fourth VOICES Conference On Teaching STEM With Song Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Lawrence Lesser
The fourth VOICES (Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Song) conference will be held September 26, 2021, with its Sunday date especially targeting those whose teaching schedule precludes attendance on a weekday. This online-only conference explores the use of song to teach STEM content at the college or secondary school level and will include reviewed interactive sessions
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Examining the Modeling Framework of Crime Hotspot Models in Predictive Policing Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Heidi Goodson
Predictive policing has its roots in crime hotspot modeling. In this paper we give an example of what goes into mathematical crime hotspot modeling and show that the modeling assumptions perpetuate systemic racism in policing. The goal of this paper is to raise objections to this field of research, not on its mathematical merit, but on the scope of the problem formation. We do not make any suggestions
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Ubiratan D’Ambrosio: Celebrating His Life and Legacy Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Milton Rosa,Daniel Orey
On May 12th, Brazil and the world said goodbye to one of its biggest names in mathematics education, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (December 8, 1932 – May 12, 2021). D’Ambrosio is recognized both throughout Brazil and internationally for having been the creator of ethnomathematics, a concept that acknowledges, values, and respects different mathematical ideas, procedures, and practices developed by the members
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The Mystery of the Dancing Men Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Manmohan Kaur
In this paper I describe an activity based on a 1903 Sherlock Holmes murder mystery, in which a substitution cipher is used to encrypt secret messages. The story provides a fun and interesting way to talk about frequency analysis, and can be used as a segue into mathematical constructs such as modular arithmetic and computation. The activity is accessible to ages twelve and above, and has been successfully
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The Little Prince -- The Lost Chapter Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Igor Podlubny
A "lost chapter" from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petite Prince about the Little Prince visiting a mathematician, written in French in the style of the original work, is presented along with several translations.
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Archimedes of Syracuse and Sir Isaac Newton: On the Quadrature of a Parabola Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Wyatte Hooper
Good mathematics stands the test of time. As culture changes, we often ask different questions, bringing new perspectives, but modern mathematics stands on ancient discoveries. Isaac Newton’s discovery of calculus (along with Leibniz) may seem old but is predated by Archimedes’ findings. Current mathematics students should be familiar with parabolas and simple curves; in our introductory calculus courses
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Teaching Mathematics: Heuristics Can and Ought to Lead the Way Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Marshall Gordon
In contrast to problem-solving procedures that are the “bricks and mortar” of demonstrations in mathematics textbooks, heuristics, defined by Polya as “the study of means and methods of problem solving”, are those mental actions that enable the practitioner to make progress when it is not clear how to solve problems directly. Yet, as essential as heuristic tools are, they tend not to be included in
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My Year of Memory and Mathematics Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Matilde Lalín
I relive one stream of my state of mind over the pandemic year of 2020.
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Markov Chains for Computer Music Generation Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Ilana Shapiro,Mark Huber
Random generation of music goes back at least to the 1700s with the introduction of Musical Dice Games. More recently, Markov chain models have been used as a way of extracting information from a piece of music and generating new music. We explain this approach and give Python code for using it to first draw out a model of the music and then create new music with that model.
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The Math Games Seminar: A Mathematical Learning Community Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Anthony DeLegge,Ellen Ziliak
Learning communities can be an effective means of engaging university students across disciplines. Games have always been a source of both enjoyment and interesting mathematics. Based on our own interest in games, and the deep, strategic discussions we found ourselves having with students when we played games with them, we decided to design a learning community around the mathematics of games. We hoped
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An Interdisciplinary Rendezvous Between Mathematics and Literature: Reflections on Beauty as a Perspective in Comparative Disciplinary Didactics and a Thematic Approach to Interdisciplinary Work in Upper Secondary School Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Uffe Jankvist,Helle Rørbech,Jesper Bremholm
n this paper we propose a thematic focus on aesthetics in the context of an interdisciplinary collaboration between mathematics and literature (Language Arts) as a way to further students’ reflections on and deeper understanding of what characterizes the two subjects. Furthermore, we argue that approaching aesthetics through the perspective of literacy can potentially strengthen students’ understanding
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Logic and Biology: The Correspondence Between Alfred Tarski and Joseph H. Woodger Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Paolo Mancosu
This article makes available some early letters chronicling the relationship between the biologist Joseph H. Woodger and the logician Alfred Tarski. Using twenty-five unpublished letters from Tarski to Woodger preserved in the Woodger Papers at University College, London, I reconstruct their relationship for the period 1935-1950. The scientific aspects of the correspondence concern, among other things
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An Interview with the (Other) Corona Graph Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Bonnie Jacob,Jobby Jacob
The following is an interview, conducted in April 2021, with a graph product known as the corona graph. Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are not ours. Actually, this entire interview is fiction, other than the mathematics, of course.
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Fantasy at the Service of Mathematics Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Clara Ziskin,Esther Williams,Alla Shmukler
This article aims to introduce the reader to a book published in 2016 under the title “Amazing Tales from the Magic Wood and Famous Problems of Mathematics” by Elli Shor and Clara Ziskin. The book offers an original method of presenting mathematical facts and history through a fantasy narrative. The book’s two authors, Clara Ziskin and Alla Shmukler (Elli Shor), together with consultant psychologist
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The List: Proverbs for Calculus Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Bruce Pourciau
Topics chosen from first-year calculus illustrate a number of “sayings” or “proverbs,” the first three, for example, being: be awed, like a child; meaning before truth; and act with intention. Many are proverbs for life as well as mathematics.
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The Power of a Double Take: Doubling Back to Show Growth in a Pandemic Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Lawrence Lesser
The COVID-19 pandemic inspired reflections on the importance and challenges of teaching exponential growth, such as doubling, to varied audiences.
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Crocheting Mathematics Through COVID-19 Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Beyza Aslan
As it is often said, something good often comes out of most bad situations. The time I spent during COVID-19, at home and isolated with my two children, brought out one secret passion in me: crocheting. Not only did it help me pass the time in a sane and productive way, but also it gave me a new goal in life. It connected my math side with my artistic side. It gave me a new perspective to look at math
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Making Art in Math Class During the Pandemic Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Larson Fairbairn,Kameelah Jackson,Ksenija Simic-Muller
For many of us, the pandemic has changed how we teach and how we support students. This manuscript highlights creativity as a way to support for student mathematical and emotional well-being. It describes the positive impact that creative assignments in a mathematics content course for preservice K-8 teachers had on students during the early days of the pandemic. The story is told by the instructor
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Leonardo da Vinci in Raphael's School of Athens Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Frode Larsen
At the center of the School of Athens, Raphael painted Plato with a face similar to that of Leonardo da Vinci. In this article I argue that the likeness was intentional, and that Raphael’s fresco contains a set of references to the book De Divina Proportione, to which Leonardo contributed with drawings of polyhedrons. De Divina Proportione was written by Leonardo’s friend and teacher of mathematics
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Mathematics Heritage Project: An Exploration Empowering Students' Mathematical Identities Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Siddhi Desai,Brianna Kurtz,Farshid Safi
The International Study Group on Ethnomathematics (ISGEm) supports incorporating cultural diversity of mathematical practices to promote the teaching and learning of school mathematics. Through The Mathematics Heritage Project, students at a middle school in the southeastern United States developed unique creations to connect with the mathematics connected to their identities and self-identified cultural
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Mathematics and Magic Realism: A Study of "The Raven Legend" Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Veselin Jungic
This article demonstrates that “The Raven Legend”, a Haida myth transcribed by Franz Boas in 1888, is full of (ethno)mathematical concepts that Haida society used to make sense of the natural, real world. Calculus can be used to model several segments of the story since the narrative relied heavily on ideas that a mathematician would identify as the concepts of infinity and mathematical limits.
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Seeing Mathematics in the World Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Mark Huber,Gizem Karaali
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Sonnet ANSI/VITA 49.2-2017, Sec. 9.13.3 Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Bruce McGuffin
A discussion of the contents of the Data Packet Payload Format Field in an ANSI/VITA 49.2 compliant data packet in the form of a Sonnet.
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The Music Is All That Counts! A Poem-Collage Pair Created During The Pandemic Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Sarah Glaz,Mark Sanders
The poem-collage pair presented here is a work of collaboration between the mathematician and poet, Sarah Glaz, and the collage and ceramic artist, Mark Sanders. The piece is part of their larger joint poem-collage project involving the history of mathematics. Created at the height of the pandemic, the poem-collage pair reflects the reality of living during a plague and embodies the solace offered
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Felix Hausdorff’s Poem “Den Ungeflügelten” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Benjamin Elkins
In 1900, Felix Hausdorff published Ekstasen (Ecstasy) under the pseudonym Paul Mongré. The book is comprised of 157 poems (70 sonnets, 32 rondels, 25 "mixed poems", where Hausdorff effortlessly combines different types of poetic styles, and 30 more poems). Den Ungeflügelten (To The Wingless Ones) is the first poem in this book and provides an interesting self-portrait of Hausdorff as he embraces his
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Can We Science the Poop, Too? Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Nat Banting
This article describes how an innocuous question from a primary schooler taught me to pay attention to the dynamic meaning making activities of children—particularly, those of my young daughter. Through this lens, I examine how the verb-based world of children might compel us to think differently about the largely nominalized project of schooling and, more specifically, about the craft of teaching
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Math Girl Solves the Pattern Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Zoe Austin
During COVID-19 isolation, Dr. Jennifer Austin and her seven-year-old daughter Zoe co-authored the short story Math Girl Solves the Pattern. Here we meet the superheroine Math Girl and her nemesis Minus Girl. Math Girl is observant, curious, and creative.