of Humanistic Mathematics

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Synopsis We model prejudice in the context of an iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament. Prejudice here is defined as the inability to distinguish amongst members of an identifiable group. We run a computer simulation where agents of one of two groups with defined strategies are randomly matched against each other. The...

The Music of Teaching

The Music of Teachingfocuses on an ephemeral attribute all teachers need but few consider: perception. This includes the ability to trust both students' natural development and the learning process itself to guide developing pianists down music's path. Using stories from her 46-year teaching career plus research from t...

Faulty Assumptions

Why do some students thumb their nose at a good education, disrupt everyone’s day at every turn, and pretty much subject themselves to a lifetime of compromise and want? This unique book is based on a decade of hands on experience and research dealing with thousands of students in regular education, K-12, and in an alt...

ASPECTS OF COLOR-EXPRESSING LEXEMES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK

“A little academe”: How Teaching through Performance Illuminated Love’s Labor’s Lost

In 2002, the students in my Performing Shakespeare seminar at Davidson College encountered many interpretive challenges when they mounted a full production of Love’s Labor’s Lost. Several cruces, they learned, came down to performance choices significant enough to determine either the audience’s engagement with a play...