CUNY Academic Commons

The application deadline for 2013 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction is 2/14! http://www.cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/cuny-math-initiative/chancellorsaward.html Send your application packet to mathinstructionaward@mail.cuny.edu.

Check out the CUNYMath Blog! http://cunymathblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Two new posts are up:
”On Understanding (in Mathematics)” by Prof. Broni Charnocha (Hostos CC)
”Polls, Observational Studies, and the Meaning of ’Random’” by Prof. Frank Wang (LaGuardia CC)

By the way, did you have a chance to read Chancellor Goldstein’s blog post? (9/13)

Happy September!
New CUNYMath Blog posts are up. Please check them out!

http://cunymathblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Featured Authors of September 2012 are Professors Roman Kossak (Bronx CC) and Broni Czarnocha (Hostos CC). Feedback and comments are welcome!

In case you missed this Times Sunday Review article, ”IS ALGEBRA NECESSARY?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html

Thanks, Frank Wang, for sending me a link to this article!

Check out the new post by Hunter Johnson about the free software package SAGE: http://cunymathblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu
You can subscribe the blog now!

Is Amalie Emmy Noether well-known in the world of math? I hadn’t heard of her before reading this Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html

By the way, you can now subscribe the CUNYMath Blog!

http://cunymathblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Please also contact me…[Read more]

Is Amalie Emmy Noether well-known in the world of math? I hadn’t heard of her before reading this Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematician-youve-never-heard-of.html

By the way, you can now subscribe the CUNYMath Blog!

http://cunymathblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Please also contact me…[Read more]

CUNYMath Blog is live — check it out!

http://cunymathblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

CUNY website’s IML page has been updated: http://www.cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/cuny-math-initiative/iml.html
Check out the publications and presentations by Profs. Cunningham, Guy, and Khazanov.

Fascinating NY Times article about Dr. Eric Lander:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/broad-institute-director-finds-power-in-numbers.html?_r=1&ref=science?src=dayp

2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction is announced!
Learn more about the award and get the application packet: http://www.cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/cuny-math-initiative/chancellorsaward.html

Hi everyone,
Any news on recently awarded prizes and recognized accomplishments in math? We would like to update ”Math in the News” on the Math Matters website. Let me know!

The Math Matters page on the CUNY website has been redesigned:

http://www.cuny.edu/academics/initiatives/cuny-math-initiative.html

… and more contents will be added soon. Stay tuned!

Hi everyone!
These are two interesting articles: “The ideas…” is written by a math professor.

Ideas in the Ascendant – In an online age, truth is more unbundled than ever. That makes higher education more important than ever.

http://chronicle.com/article/Ideas-in-the-Ascendant/127972/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

More teens think they…[Read more]

I haven’t seen her videos yet, but I agree; Math can be fun.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/science/18prof.html?scp=1&sq=Bending%20and%20Stretching%20Classroom%20Lessons%20to%20Make%20Math%20Inspire&st=cse

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday.

This is a friendly reminder of some important dates. I’ll appreciate your timely responses.

January 14 (Fri)
RSVP deadline for the 2/18 luncheon (below)
Please email Mari at mari.watanabe@mail.cuny.edu

January 31 (Mon)
preliminary progress report due
Contents: A 1- to 2-page single-spaced…[Read more]

An interesting study regarding online vs. face-to-face courses at Virginia community colleges (http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=813):

- Students with stronger academic preparation were more likely to enroll in online courses.
- Regardless of their initial level of preparation, students were more likely to fail or withdraw from…[Read more]

Please go to the ”Documents” page to see the update!

Hi everyone. It’s me again, but I’m writing this time ON BEHALF OF THE QCC IML TEAM (Profs. Guy, Cornick, Holt, Russell). Here’s their preliminary report, written by Prof. Guy:

I wanted to write to give you the latest good news from our Improving Math Learning Project, Accelerated Workshop Approach to Remedial Mathematics (WARM UPS) which is…[Read more]

U.S. professors of the year:

http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-of-the-Year-Put/125425/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/newsroom/press-releases/case-carnegie-name-2010-us-professors-the-year