The Mathematics Enthusiast (TME) is an eclectic internationally circulated peer reviewed journal which focuses on mathematics content, mathematics education research, innovation, interdisciplinary issues and pedagogy. Authors do not need to be affiliated with the University of Montana in order to publish in this journal. Please send all submissions and correspondence to the editor, Professor Bharath Sriraman.
Current Issue: Volume 20, Number 1, 2 & 3 (April 2023)
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991)
Editorial
Guest Editorial
Egan J. Chernoff
Articles
Debating Mathematics Curriculum A Review of Andrew Hacker’s The Math Myth And Other STEM Delusions
Samuel Otten
A Math Ed Take on Humble Humour A Review of Matt Parker’s Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Alayne Armstrong
Storied Numbers A Review of Alex Bellos’s Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
John Bragelman
Woo-Hoo! The Mathematics and Education of the D’oh-Nut A Review of Simon Singh’s The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Jamie S. Pyper
Queering the Stats A Review of David Spiegelhalter’s The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
Nenad Radakovic
Uncertainty in an Uncertain World A Review of Ian Stewart’s Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
Luis Saldanha
Learning to Avoid Luck Traps in Contexts of Uncertainty A Review of Jeffrey Rosenthal’s Knock on Wood: Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything
Vincent Martin and Mathieu Thibault
Things Behind Bayes’ Theorem A review of Sharon Bertsch McGrayne’s The theory that would not die: How Bayes' theorem allowed to decipher the enigma code, to pursue the Russian submarines and to emerge triumphant from two centuries of controversy from a statistics education perspective
Ernesto Sanchez, Nathalia Morgado, and Eleazar Silvestre
Putting Math in its Place A Review of Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Nathalie Sinclair
Algorithms and Mathematics Education A Response and Review of Hannah Fry’s Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Joshua T. Hertel
The Siren Call of Calculus A Review of Steven Strogatz’s Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Wes Maciejewski
Arithmetic: Craft or Art? A Recursive (Re)view of Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament and Arithmetic
Jennifer S. Thom
The Hocus Pocus of Martin Gardner A Review of Martin Gardner’s Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
Neil J. Hatfield
Thinking Essays A Review of Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Ann Arden
Overcoming Misconceptions about Probability A Review of David J. Hand’s The Improbability Principle
Keith Gallagher
Studying Flourishing and Non-Flourishing in Mathematics A Review of Francis Su’s Mathematics for Human Flourishing with reflections by Christopher Jackson
Ryan Banow, Nat Banting, and Egan Chernoff
Popularizing Mathematics Education Through Bad Drawings A Review of Ben Orlin’s Math with Bad Drawings
Nat Banting, Ryan Banow, and Egan Chernoff
Zero to Infinity A Review of Charles Seife’s ZERO: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Douglas McDougall
Baking Up Mathematics A Review of Eugenia Cheng’s How to Bake 𝝅: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Katryne Dubeau
Statistical Literacy – the Golden Rules A Review of Tim Harford’s The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
Stephanie Budgett and Amy Renelle
Editors
- Guest Editor
- Egan J. Chernoff, University of Saskatchewan
Special Issue:
Math Ed Reviews: The Popularization of Mathematics
