Math always has the answer, right? In this humor-speckled piece, we probe the answer to that question in a challenging context: the mathematician as mother. Unfortunately, we’ll find that skill and knowledge in mathematics does not necessarily translate to skill and knowledge in making, birthing, and raising people. But can motherhood in some way improve us as mathematicians
This article chronicles the merging of my roles of teacher and learner of mathematics with that of a...
Just ask the family cat: we are not all in this together, and never were. In this piece, I describe ...
Grieving while teaching and researching is a tricky task. Support from the local community and from ...
Math always has the answer, right? In this humor-speckled piece, we probe the answer to that questio...
Interactions with the humans in one’s life can have bearings on the way one interacts with one’s wor...
I am a tenure-track assistant professor, and I have a beautiful three-year old boy and a husband who...
Who is a mathematician? What does it mean to do mathematics? I discuss my process in solving a math ...
Despite all the stereotypes about them, mothers possess a skill set that makes them outstanding pote...
I became a mother while a postdoctoral fellow, and solved my two-body problem shortly thereafter bec...
This essay discusses the challenges of mothering four very different children--one adopted, one gift...
I very recently became a math mama. In my desperate search for patterns and structure in those first...
When you tackle a set of problems, do you like easy first or hard first? Do you lay out a problem so...
Is mommy brain real? Are pregnant women and mothers ditzier than non-mothers? If mommy brain is a re...
Parents and educators have powerful opportunities to introduce children to big mathematical ideas, w...
Most of people have fatal attitude to Mathematics: some of them are capable to learn it form nature,...
This article chronicles the merging of my roles of teacher and learner of mathematics with that of a...
Just ask the family cat: we are not all in this together, and never were. In this piece, I describe ...
Grieving while teaching and researching is a tricky task. Support from the local community and from ...
Math always has the answer, right? In this humor-speckled piece, we probe the answer to that questio...
Interactions with the humans in one’s life can have bearings on the way one interacts with one’s wor...
I am a tenure-track assistant professor, and I have a beautiful three-year old boy and a husband who...
Who is a mathematician? What does it mean to do mathematics? I discuss my process in solving a math ...
Despite all the stereotypes about them, mothers possess a skill set that makes them outstanding pote...
I became a mother while a postdoctoral fellow, and solved my two-body problem shortly thereafter bec...
This essay discusses the challenges of mothering four very different children--one adopted, one gift...
I very recently became a math mama. In my desperate search for patterns and structure in those first...
When you tackle a set of problems, do you like easy first or hard first? Do you lay out a problem so...
Is mommy brain real? Are pregnant women and mothers ditzier than non-mothers? If mommy brain is a re...
Parents and educators have powerful opportunities to introduce children to big mathematical ideas, w...
Most of people have fatal attitude to Mathematics: some of them are capable to learn it form nature,...
This article chronicles the merging of my roles of teacher and learner of mathematics with that of a...
Just ask the family cat: we are not all in this together, and never were. In this piece, I describe ...
Grieving while teaching and researching is a tricky task. Support from the local community and from ...