One of the exciting elements of being the Communications Editor is that I get to connect people with the exciting papers in PRIMUS that I think will impact their professional work for the better. In support of this goal, Taylor & Francis allows us (Matt Boelkins, Kathy Weld, and me) to select papers each year as Editors’ Picks and makes them freely available for download to all without login for the first two months of 2026, without requiring access to the journal. This blog post is intended to share a little about the categories of Picks and why I am …
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The purpose of this post is to share the current thinking of the PRIMUS Editorial Board on the use and involvement of Large Language Models (henceforth “LLMs”) in submissions to the journal. We acknowledge that opinions and perspectives among Board members vary and that not all Board members agree fully with every aspect of what follows. PRIMUS is a place for critical examination and responsible dissemination of ideas and their impact. New technologies can offer powerful new possibilities for our work, but new possibilities may also unearth ethical and pragmatic concerns that our community must consider. The body of this document focuses on …
PRIMUS Editorial Board Statement of Principle on AIRead More »
One of the exciting elements of being the Communications Editor is that I get to connect people with the exciting papers in PRIMUS that I think will impact their professional work for the better. In support of this goal, Taylor & Francis allows us (Matt Boelkins, Kathy Weld, and me) to select papers each year as Editors’ Picks and makes them freely available for download to all without login for the first month or two of 2025, without requiring access to the journal. This blog post is intended to share a little about the categories of Picks and why I …
I occasionally get emails asking how folks can volunteer to review for PRIMUS. [I know, volunteering to do free labor!] If this resonates, you can add an account in the system (see the instructions below) or email me (primus.commseditor@gmail.com), Matt, or Kathy to ask us to initiate an account for you in our reviewer system. But perhaps the best option would be to email the Subject Editors who oversee the areas of most interest to you. These areas overlap, and boundaries are unclear, so think of these broadly. Here is the Subject Editor team: Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan – Graduate and …
One of the exciting elements of being the Communications Editor is that I get to connect people with the exciting papers in PRIMUS that I think will impact their professional work for the better. In support of this goal, Taylor & Francis allows us (Matt Boelkins, Kathy Weld, and me) to select papers each year as Editors’ Picks and makes them freely available for download to all without login for the first two months of 2024, without requiring access to the journal. This blog post is intended to share a little about the categories of Picks and why I am …
The PRIMUS Editorial team is pleased to announce our second Curated Collection on Modeling and Applications, by Ethan Berkove and Ben Galluzzo. This Curated Collection and ALL of the referenced papers will be freely available through January 2024!
A major issue facing undergraduate mathematics teaching is that much accumulated knowledge and wisdom about teaching specific lessons is lost as experienced instructors retire or leave for other reasons. While methods for sharing teaching knowledge do exist, most either speak to broader generalities in teaching or miss crucial details that would make the materials easier for others to try out in their own classes. Discussions of quality instruction rarely reach the level of decision-making necessary for planning and implementing a single lesson. For example, a shared lesson plan might suggest that an instructor use a certain activity, or hold a …
What does it mean to use and practice Mathematics ethically? In our opinion, the professional community of mathematicians has not yet answered this question fully. Consequences of not addressing the ethics of our discipline have led to data-related scandals and sometimes questionable professional practices, and have contributed to decreased public trust in science. By integrating ethical reasoning into undergraduate mathematics classes, we can begin to alter the perception that because mathematics is founded on abstract and theoretical constructs, it somehow relieves the mathematics practitioner of ethical responsibility. Social and professional responsibilities are not limited to those mathematicians who design algorithms …
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One of the exciting elements of being the Communications Editor is that I get to connect people with the exciting papers in PRIMUS that I think will impact their professional work for the better. In support of this goal, Taylor & Francis allows us (Matt Boelkins, Kathy Weld, and me) to select papers each year as Editors’ Picks and makes them freely available for download to all without login, without requiring access to the journal. This blog post is intended to share a little about the categories of Picks and why I am excited about these particular papers. In general, …
One of the most common conversations I have with authors is about my strong, negative reaction to the term real-world. I believe that this seemingly-innocuous term embeds a problematic ideology in at least two related ways. Let me explain: Real-world problems implies the existence of rational-/natural-world problems. I think that most people use the term real-world to assert that a phenomenon is realistic, messy, or authentic because its origins are not in a school context. I certainly support educators in attending to these aspects of learning environments beyond the famously shallow levels seen in problems about 57 watermelons. But the …
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