{"title":"Mathematics Education (and Other) Perspectives A Review of Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable","authors":"Gale Russell","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47557387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Re)Humanizing Mathematics with Story A Review of Keith Devlin’s Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World","authors":"Cynthia Nicol","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45155570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking Essays A Review of Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math","authors":"Ann Arden","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44653384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zero to Infinity A Review of Charles Seife’s ZERO: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea","authors":"D. McDougall","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49604338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Juicy Nuggets with a Strong Core A Review of Jordan Ellenberg’s How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking","authors":"Taras Gula","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1586","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46852772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Birth of a Review or (How Villani Both Reinforces and Challenges our Beliefs about Mathematics) A Review of Cédric Villani’s Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure","authors":"M. Leblanc","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70969337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cultural Coercion and Minimization of Gender “(Micro)aggressions”","authors":"Hansen-Osborne, Hailey","doi":"10.48617/etd.628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48617/etd.628","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the connection between the minimization of (micro)aggressions and the propensity of American society to diminish the impact of “bigger,” more legally recognized, acts such as rape and sexual assault. One hundred and seventy-three participants ages eighteen to seventy were surveyed for an IRB-approved study that compared people’s experiences with their perpetuation of (micro)aggressions. This study argues that there is a cultural coercion to minimize (micro)aggressions, which creates a larger cultural environment that is infused with violence. (Micro)aggressions, in and of themselves, are violent and are an allowable mechanism of perpetuating gender-based violence on a day-to-day basis. The messages sent by media, such as Disney and romantic comedies, play an important role in shaping social scripts that people are pressured to adhere to. Further, this study explores how repeated exposure to (micro)aggressions and sexual violence in media impacts people’s sympathy for victim-survivors, beliefs about their severity, and the normalization of violence as a normal aspect of love. The use of humor as a mechanism of minimization is also explored. Lastly, this study argues that people, through socialization, learn to contribute and maintain the perpetuation of them, while justifying (micro)aggressions as minimal harmful, which then informs people’s baseline attitude about sexual violence. Overall, the daily minimization of (micro)aggressions helps foster a culture that functions on the belief that sexual violence is “not so bad.” <br><br>","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147915965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baking Up Mathematics A Review of Eugenia Cheng’s How to Bake 𝝅: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics","authors":"Katryne Dubeau","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70969403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recommendations for course-based undergraduate research experiences in mathematics","authors":"Rommel J. Miranda","doi":"10.54870/1551-3440.1571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.1571","url":null,"abstract":": Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have benefits for course instructors, undergraduate STEM students, and underrepresented students. CUREs consist of five essential components which include the use of science practices, discovery, broadly relevant or important work, collaboration, and iteration (Auchincloss et al., 2014). Over the past decade, a broad range of CUREs have been developed within and across STEM disciplines. However, resources to assist instructors to develop CUREs in mathematics are limited. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the extant literature on course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), especially in mathematics, to provide future directions for reforming mathematics courses to incorporate research experiences through CUREs, and to provide recommendations for developing CUREs in mathematics.","PeriodicalId":44703,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Enthusiast","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48147810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}