I'm hoping to spend time each week celebrating the accomplishments of BIPOC in STEM and would love to gather more resources through your networks and mine on here. #mtbos #iteachmath
Let me begin by sharing some of what I already have.
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Let me begin by sharing some of what I already have.
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For several years I have made and used slides to showcase mathematicians who ARE NOT white men using @annieperkins and @DrKChilds's resources
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Each week I feature a mathematician found on one of these 4 sites:
@DrKChilds's Black Mathematicians: http://kristopherchilds.com/black-mathematician-month
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@DrKChilds's Black Mathematicians: http://kristopherchilds.com/black-mathematician-month
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@anniek_p Not Just White Dudes Mathematicians:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AOc7RHJr0TJQbjiyhuReFYjP3g-oN_ycRQISQuyPfSw/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=100726493310486219036
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AOc7RHJr0TJQbjiyhuReFYjP3g-oN_ycRQISQuyPfSw/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=100726493310486219036
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Sometimes I feature a mathematician and students ask questions and more recently, I have started collecting articles and videos to add more multi-media to our discussions. A few of those examples are
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@dbdiarrabousso Math Teacher and fashion designer
https://www.okayafrica.com/meet-the-senegalese-designer-making-math-chic/
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https://www.okayafrica.com/meet-the-senegalese-designer-making-math-chic/
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And Lonnie Johnson NASA engineer who also invented the super soaker water gun: https://nowthisnews.com/videos/money/super-soaker-inventor-lonnie-johnson-faced-racism-as-a-black-engineer
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I have collected a lot of these videos and articles and am working on organizing them into a sharable resource. If you can share others with me, I'd love to add them to my collection and will use them to celebrate accomplishments of BIPOC in STEM all year long.
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I am happy to share my collection of resources on here once I turn it into something more than a messy list of links in a Google Doc. My hope is to do that very soon. Thank you.
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