Caz Pereira is a workforce expert with Bay Area-based nonprofit Growth Sector. Before participating in a panel on whether or not most of us need algebra, he bragged on his mixology and hated on his futon in the Zócalo green room.
Science writer Jennifer Ouellette is the author, most recently, of The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Before moderating …
Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews is the author, most recently, of The War Against Dummy Math. Before participating in a panel on whether math education matters, he revealed in …
How much does math matter? In a New York Times op-ed last summer, political scientist Andrew Hacker suggested that the answer is not very much. Algebra, contended Hacker, isn’t necessary …
Robot Futures by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
The nutshell: Carnegie Mellon University roboticist Nourbakhsh imagines a future in which ever more intelligent forms of artificial intelligence dictate the way we work, shop, …
Dianne Pors did not like what she saw when she took her first job in 1975 as a math teacher at Yerba Buena High School in the East Side Union …
