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| The current Apology (by an anonymous pure mathematician) is not so much an apology as an explanation of why we really can't look to pure mathematicians as a whole for effective help in the political games surrounding the Math Wars. He's right; mowing over your average pure mathematician, politically, is like shooting fish in a barrel. In addition, the realities of the mathematics research and research funding game are exactly as he describes them; they do not reward political savvy at all; quite the contrary. | ||||||||
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Let I sound too jaded, this is a good time to recognize the efforts of those many pure mathematicians who have involved themselves in the effort to improve mathematics education at the K-12 level. David Klein, Ralph Raimi, Bas Braams, James Milgram, Hung-Hsi Wu, Fred Greenleaf, and many others have spent lots of perfectly good political capital fighting the good fight. As David says, thank goodness for tenure. | |||||||
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Lest I sound too jaded, this is a good time to recognize the efforts of those many pure mathematicians who have involved themselves in the effort to improve mathematics education at the K-12 level. David Klein, Ralph Raimi, Bas Braams, James Milgram, Hung-Hsi Wu, Fred Greenleaf, and many others have spent lots of perfectly good political capital fighting the good fight. As David says, thank goodness for tenure. | |||||||
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A bit of background: the AMS is the American Mathematical Society, the main professional society for research (pure) mathematicians. The MAA is the Mathematical Association of America, which as a group focuses on college-level mathematics education. The Notices are the newsletter of the AMS. -- CarolynJohnston | ||||||||
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