Yvonne Lai, from the University of Nebraska, gave a talk today. Short Description:
When scholars wrote that mathematics is “unreasonably effective”, they meant the application of mathematical structure for the doing of the sciences; but what about for the teaching of mathematics in and for the sciences? In this talk, I will give (emerging) ways to view the time-and-again press for more applications in mathematics education, and how one might view the relationship between mathematics as “queen of the sciences” yet also “servant”. 

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