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This podcast is an effort to promote visibility of women in mathematics. Inspired by the fact that women are vast minority in higher mathematics, Women in Math: The Limit Does Not Exist serves to increase enrollment and participation of women in mathematics and STEM courses.
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A candid conversation links childhood math habits to the unstable mathematics of waiting.
Math arrives first as a family rhythm, then as a field Eva Lozier is still actively measuring herself against. Elmer's conversation with the UC San Diego math PhD student has an easy, exploratory shape, moving from childhood problem-solving with her father into the less settled…
A candid recap of how Amy Cakebread found mathematics, mentorship, and confidence at Portland Community College.
Olivia Myers follows Amy Cakebread's unlikely path into mathematics with an eye for the turning points that made school feel possible. Cakebread began after high school still unable to do basic math, started at Math 20, and worked toward Math 11 after first coming to Portland…
Long-form conversations about what education is for.
School stories, told close to the classroom.
Local STEM careers, told plainly.
Science teaching, modeled from the classroom out.
Faculty conversations on sepsis, sunscreen and science fiction.
A woman shares her personal story of facing gender bias in mathematics education and her motivation to break false limitations.
Eva Lozier says a deterministic one-person-per-minute service system can avoid lines, but a small amount of randomness can make the queue tend to infinity.
This episode discusses Marie Curie's life and achievements, highlighting her Nobel Prizes and the role of applied math in science.
Host Liv Myers interviews math teacher Amy Cakebread about her journey and teaching math at Portland Community College.