Uncovering a Passion for Mathematics

For as long as Stephanie Salomone can remember, she always loved learning. Her parents — an educator and an engineer — encouraged Salomone throughout her childhood to gain a variety of learning experiences, including everything from mathematics to music lessons to explor...

“Try to do for students only what they cannot yet do for themselves,” says Mathematical Association of America (MAA) member, professor emeritus of the Open University, and avid canoeist John Mason. Though he’s retired from his original position teaching mathematics and m...

WASHINGTON, DC (May 21, 2021) — According to the Census Bureau, women have made significant gains in the STEM workforce over the years, but men still dominate the field. In 2019, "Men made up 52% of all U.S. workers but 73% of all STEM workers."

Rick Gillman will always remember the moment he decided to become a teacher. It was in his calculus class during his senior year of high school. There were only four people in the class, but Gillman always managed to grab a seat behind another student, hiding from the te...

Much of the world is certain that the career path for mathematicians involves either teaching or impossible theories and their applications, and while the application part may be true, Ralph Pass’s journey is anything but ordinary. Though he was adamant that his story is...

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence,” he recited with ease.

We are all shaped by key moments in our childhoods. For Candice Price, one of those moments came in the third grade, when her math teacher played Schoolhouse Rock to teach her class multiplication. From then on, Candice loved mathematics for one simple reason: it was fun...

A letter from co-Editor-in-Chief and previous participant of the AMC 10/12 competition

The MAA Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematics (PIC Math) program prepares mathematical sciences students for a wide range of careers post-graduation. Students are presented with a real-life problem from business, industry, or government (BIG) and have the opp...