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...Science article claimed that mathematics is "the last bastion of male exclusivity in U.S. academics." The article reported that out of the top 10 math departments in the U.S., there are only four women professors with tenure. This does not adequately reflect the number of math Ph.D.s going to women today, the author wrote...
Most women in the Math Department are preceptors, responsible for teaching and administrating the general calculus classes. Outside of training mathematicians, the department offers general math courses for students in other concentrations who need to take them to fill requirements. These courses represent a large portion of the department's activity, according to Schmid...
Deborah Hughes Hallett holds the wordy title, professor of the practice in the teaching of mathematics. She is considered a senior member of the Math faculty, although she does not have tenure. Her national reputation as an outstanding teacher of math prompted the department to grant her a professorship, says Schmid. Hughes Hallett is responsible for establishing curriculum, solving problems in the teaching of math and overseeing all the remedial math courses...
...story begins calmly enough, on a short, shady street in Baltimore in the mid-1960s. There live Doug and Dee Bedloe, he a high school math teacher, she a homemaker. Their eldest child, Claudia, has dropped out of college to marry and bear a succession of babies; Danny, the middle Bedloe, has graduated from high school and now works at the post office; Ian, the youngest, is in the 11th grade and a promising pitcher on the baseball team. "There was this about the Bedloes," Tyler writes. "They believed that every part of their lives was absolutely wonderful. It wasn...
...even when his parents gave in and brought James home, his grades at Bassick fluctuated. "You start listening to other people, and they get to your head," he says. "Say the math is getting hard, and one of my friends just goes to sleep, and I figure, 'Hey, I can go to sleep...