Interview with Dr. Nina H. Fefferman, a mathematician and epidemiologist, by writer Anna Weltman about Dr. Fefferman’s work on the COVID-19 pandemic. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L8XdnsaKh-zj6urBN7BC3-flO0fSeMfY/view?usp=sharing
Dr. Fefferman is a professor of mathematics and biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Fefferman’s work centers on the application of mathematical models to biological systems, including the spread of disease in communities. She is a pioneer in using mathematical models to apply research from psychology about the social behaviors of individuals to epidemiology. Learn more about Dr. Fefferman’s work here. Anna Weltman (@AnnaWeltman) is a writer and doctoral candidate in mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley. Weltman’s forthcoming book, Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil (Johns Hopkins University Press), explores the ways in which mathematics has been applied to the world’s most pressing social problems– including epidemics. Please join Weltman in thanking Dr. Fefferman for her tireless work in this challenging time.”
Magic Lecture by our MAA-SE Section Lecturer Matt Baker: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/live-lectures/at-the-table-live-lecture-matt-baker/
Pi Day Video: “How to Memorize All the Digits of Pi” by James Tanton
Presentation on Ambigrams by Scott Kim, featuring a combination of math, art, and language in which words are written in a form that are the same when inverted
Engaging Students in the Classroom Cloud by Peter Penar, Department of Political Science, Davidson College, www.peterpenar.org
Description: As we face this new dispensation for the rest of the semester, it is important to find strategies to leverage student engagement, attention, and learning using remote teaching apps. In my own work teaching graduate-level students on the continent of Africa, I have explored techniques for engagement-centric instruction and learning. The talk shares some of these techniques. The talk focuses on the widely used Zoom meeting platform, which has a good feature set. There are several techniques for engaging students on remote meeting apps, including setting norms and processes to make accessing the Cloud Classroom easy for students, waiting room-style office hours, using the chat effectively and narrating interactions, receiving constant feedback through one-click symbols, ‘sharing the mic,’ using coordinating devices such as on-screen timers, problem-solving group work, remote control of professor and student laptops and software (e.g., R and Python), screen sharing, leveraging attendance data in Zoom, and of course using the whiteboard.