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
