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Very excited to have a story on PBS SoCal today that allows me to indulge my obsession with space exploration and history.

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After being frustrated by products of all kinds not designed for me, I took on well-meaning green menstrual product manufacturers in this story for Dame magazine.

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Mental Floss was kind enough to let me write about math again, this time about Pi Day, and, possibly more controversially, about how we use complicated math all the time without realizing it.

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I haven’t written for quite a while due to various family obligations, but was very happy when Mental Floss asked me to write about math anxiety. The last time I wrote for them was about the incredible Rosalind Franklin (and for some reason didn’t promote that).

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I have a story in The Atlantic today on the apparently never-ending debate over whether kids should learn more than arithmetic. If you had told me 10 years ago I would be championing algebra, even calculus, I would have laughed. But here I am. I also eat cauliflower fairly regularly (when I find the fractal ones), so I have become one of THOSE PEOPLE.

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Team USA did very well this year at the European Girls Math Olympiad, and I had the honor of interviewing several team members and the coaches for an Atlantic story. Here’s hoping contests like EGMO keep spreading and growing, and that girls continue embracing math.

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I have another essay in the Washington Post today, this one on the challenges of finding elder home care. The apocalypse may be upon us by the time I turn 90, so I really don’t know how I can plan for this, but I will try!

Also, here is my last story on word problems for Noodle, which sadly decided to stop running editorial content this month. Oh well, it was a fun run. Thanks, Noodle!

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I have two pieces up again today (though the second ran in print last October), one on efforts to improve math teachers, the other on navigating national parks like Yosemite with a disability.

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I am so happy to start the new year with a story in The Atlantic, a magazine I’ve wanted to write for for a long time. The piece is on early math education reforms, and to my mind goes a long way to explaining our awful attitudes toward math today. Thankfully we’re changing that, though. Another article I wrote for Noodle on math apps is all about encouraging kids to love numbers.

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The MAA’s calculus study continues to inspire stories, and I just wrote this one for Noodle. It’s a more straightforward, not at all personal take, unlike last week’s for the AMS.