I’m a middle school math teacher, and I’d really like to humanize math for my kiddos. Many of them don’t see themselves succeeding in math, which greatly impacts their ability to learn.
I want my students to see that math is ongoing and for them to see people who look them doing mathematics. One piece of that will be having a mathematician of the moment posted in the room. It’ll include a picture, a short bio, a quote, fun facts, why they are/were influential, etc.
Of course I would include people like Newton and Euler, but I would also like to use modern mathematicians, women in math, and mathematicians of color. For example, I’ve got Katherine Johnson, Maryam Mirzakhani, Ramanujan, and Andrew Wiles. I don’t mind doing the research on them, but I know that I’d be missing some key names!
Who do you look up to in mathematics and why? Who is/was influential in your field?
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