5 papers
Please, do tell
Yvonne Lai
"Math is not a spectator sport." "Lecturing is educational malpractice." Slogans like these rally some mathematicians to teach classes that feature "active learning", where lecturi…
Making mathematical claims
Yvonne Lai
Good problems grab us. They invite us to find patterns, make conjectures, and prove-or perhaps disprove-a conjecture. When I first taught, I saw my work as tantalizing students wit…
The messages we send after we listen
Yvonne Lai
Each time we teach, our students communicate to us. They talk, write, and draw. How do we take in their expressions of self and mathematics? How do we listen? In this column, publi…
Interview with Hyman Bass
Hyman Bass, Lisa Carbone, Yvonne Lai
Interview with Hyman Bass, whose mathematical life has spanned seven decades.
Who cares about mathematics education?
Yvonne Lai
In the past two decades, teaching and outreach have come to hold an expected place in more missions of mathematics departments and organizations. Still, there is more to do as a ma…