Things that Used to be Strange Are Familiar Now: Reflections on the Inevitable Evolution of Pedagogy & Scholarship

The mathematics and statistics community has had to take a hard look at itself and assess whether the tenets that we hold most dear in our community are truly aligned with our goals of excellence in the mathematical and statistical sciences. The central dilemma is that mathematical and statistical scientists are an incredibly heterogenous group and do not agree on what this "excellence" looks like. We will look to examples within STEM from all levels of education -- from the "New Math" to the recent revisions to the California Mathematics Framework, from W. E. B. DuBois' data visualizations of institutionalized racism presented at the 1900 Paris World's Fair to the trailblazing work of Drs. David Blackwell and Richard Tapia -- to show how what was once considered strange is now familiar, and how our field has been, and always will be, changing for the better.

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