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A recent UCSD report spotlights gaps in students' math preparation. But what does the research say about actually fixing the problem?

Kyndall Brown and Robin Wilson reflect on what the report gets right and what it leaves out. Read the full Math Values post here:

What’s Important About UCSD’s Math Report—And What It Leaves Out – Mathematical Association of America By Kyndall Brown and Robin Wilson As educators who have collectively spent 50-plus years of our lives on improving math teaching, we are normally pleased when math education gets attention in the newspapers. But a recent report from UC San Diego about declining math preparation has been a mixed bles...

The MAA is pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of our teaching, publications, and meritorious service awards.

This year's honorees have made lasting contributions to mathematics education, scholarship, and our professional community. We are grateful for their dedication and proud to recognize their work.

Read the full announcements in the MAA Newsroom: https://bit.ly/4vmrrGd

For 80 years, Erdős's Unit Distance Conjecture stood as one of combinatorial geometry's great open problems. This spring, an AI disproved it, and the mathematical community is taking notice.

Keith Devlin reflects on what this milestone means for the discipline, the role human mathematicians still play, and the evolving relationship between AI and mathematical discovery.

Read the full Math Values post here: https://bit.ly/4vgzGno

AI solves an 80 year-old Erdős problem. – Mathematical Association of America By Keith Devlin @fediscience.org, .bsky.social Much of the attention on uses of AI has focused of late on Anthropic’s Claude. In particular, Claude’s discovery of 23,000 potential security vulnerabilities across 1,000 Open Source Software products. With evidence like ...

Congratulations to the 2026 MCM/ICM winners! 🎉

The MAA is proud to recognize this year’s MAA Award recipients from UCLA, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Duke University, and The Nueva School for their outstanding achievements in the COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling.

View the full list of winners here: https://bit.ly/4uJRGGY

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Today is the last day to apply for the MAA MathFest Student Scholars Travel Grant.

Don't let the deadline pass you by, apply now and join us in Boston this August.

Learn more and apply: https://maa.org/resource/maa-mathfest-student-scholars-travel-grants/

What if the way we've been teaching integration is setting students up to miss the point entirely?

David Bressoud digs into why accumulation has to come first, why Darboux beats Riemann for introductory students, and why dropping one word from "Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus" quietly did real damage.

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Integrating FDWK – Mathematical Association of America By David Bressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. FDWK refers to Ross Finney, Frank Demana, Bert Waits, and Dan Kennedy, the team of authors who for many years and multiple editions updated Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, one of the....

Academic job interviews are high stakes, and not everyone gets the same preparation going in.

Six mathematicians, spanning graduate students to tenured faculty, sat down over a Peruvian dinner and turned their conversation into a practical guide for early-career academics. Interview questions, honest strategies, and the kind of advice that usually only reaches some people.

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Beyond Math: The Value of Research Collaborations for Career Advancement – Mathematical Association of America By Kimberly P. Hadaway, Pamela E. Harris, Kimberly J. Harry, Lucy Martinez, Miriam G. Norris, and Rebecca Patrias Figure 1. Left-to-Right: Kimberly J. Harry, Becky Patrias, Pamela E. Harris, Kimberly P. Hadaway, Lucy Martinez and Miriam Norris Research collaborations in mathematics can create beauti...

MAA was proud to support the Modernizing Undergraduate Math Summit, convened by TPSE Math at Harvard University alongside partners COMAP, AMS, ASA, SIAM, and AMATYC.

Over three days, leaders from across the mathematical and statistical sciences came together to reimagine undergraduate mathematics for a world shaped by data, AI, computation, and interdisciplinary work, and to chart a path from isolated innovation to coordinated action.

As part of MAA’s commitment to advancing the mathematical sciences community, we were honored to contribute to conversations shaping the future of undergraduate mathematics education.

Last call, students. The MAA MathFest Student Scholars Travel Grant closes May 31. If you've been thinking about applying, now's the time. Boston is waiting.

Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/4u9CphG

What if the data you needed already existed, and you just had to do the math to find it?

Undergraduate researcher Kelly Donovan analyzed decades of missing deep-sea coral observations in NOAA's dataset and used a simple ratio (average coral size divided by growth rate) to recover what was hiding in plain sight, increasing usable coral counts by 25.4%.

This is what happens when students are trained to think mathematically about real problems. Read the full Math Values post here:

Filling in Missing Data Using Intuitive Logic: Deep-Sea Coral Edition – Mathematical Association of America By Kelly Donovan Initial interest Throughout my life, I’ve always been interested in the environment, climate, weather, and the physical aspects of the Earth. I knew I wanted to pursue research that would let me dip my toes into a topic that was underrepresented, so when my research mentor provide...