Dave Kung
@dtkung.bsky.social
Mathematician, policy wonk, joyful conspirator, violinist, runner. Exec. Dir. at TPSE Math & Independent math ed consultant after stints for UT Dana Center, MAA, SMCM, Fudan U., Lingnan U. & the Great Courses. Part of the exhausted resistance.
Taking a break from #NCTMATL2025 to raise my voice for #NoKings.
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Taking a break from #NCTMATL2025 to raise my voice for #NoKings.
The paper I was recalling used NCES transcript data for BA/BS recipients. It looks at who is taking math, how much, and what kind. (I *think* you could use it to get what % of all credits are earned in math.)
Takeaway: non-STEM students generate 67% of math credits earned. Math/stat majors: 5%.
Takeaway: non-STEM students generate 67% of math credits earned. Math/stat majors: 5%.
October 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The paper I was recalling used NCES transcript data for BA/BS recipients. It looks at who is taking math, how much, and what kind. (I *think* you could use it to get what % of all credits are earned in math.)
Takeaway: non-STEM students generate 67% of math credits earned. Math/stat majors: 5%.
Takeaway: non-STEM students generate 67% of math credits earned. Math/stat majors: 5%.
Main point: the revenue-generating part of every four-year math department is intro math. About half is pre Calculus. Courses above Calc are something like 8%.
October 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Main point: the revenue-generating part of every four-year math department is intro math. About half is pre Calculus. Courses above Calc are something like 8%.
OK, found what I was looking for. @drew-lewis.com - it's not exactly what you want. Putting a bunch of things here - as much for my aging brain as anything else.
As mentioned CBMS surveys have lots of data - the total number of enrollments (but not credits).
www.ams.org/learning-car...
As mentioned CBMS surveys have lots of data - the total number of enrollments (but not credits).
www.ams.org/learning-car...
October 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
OK, found what I was looking for. @drew-lewis.com - it's not exactly what you want. Putting a bunch of things here - as much for my aging brain as anything else.
As mentioned CBMS surveys have lots of data - the total number of enrollments (but not credits).
www.ams.org/learning-car...
As mentioned CBMS surveys have lots of data - the total number of enrollments (but not credits).
www.ams.org/learning-car...
What does this image have to do with math education? There's huge benefit in concentrating on what we don't see. Who are the students who aren't in our classes - who didn't make it through to our part of the math education system?
Read my latest MAA blog:
maa.org/math-values/...
Read my latest MAA blog:
maa.org/math-values/...
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What does this image have to do with math education? There's huge benefit in concentrating on what we don't see. Who are the students who aren't in our classes - who didn't make it through to our part of the math education system?
Read my latest MAA blog:
maa.org/math-values/...
Read my latest MAA blog:
maa.org/math-values/...
Grrrr. How is it you took dhoti yesterday but not backbeat?!? @beemoan.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Grrrr. How is it you took dhoti yesterday but not backbeat?!? @beemoan.bsky.social
Great article about how math skills improve students' performance in science. But, um, maybe some editing would be helpful?
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
September 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Great article about how math skills improve students' performance in science. But, um, maybe some editing would be helpful?
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
I believe the word you're looking for, @nytimes.com, is "racist."
August 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I believe the word you're looking for, @nytimes.com, is "racist."
I too would like to remove dev ed (math) from our (and students') existence.
August 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I too would like to remove dev ed (math) from our (and students') existence.
Um, I have one in my garage....
August 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Um, I have one in my garage....
MathFest!!!!!
Who's coming? Who will we see at the TPSE reception Celebration of Effective Math Teaching, Thurs 8-10, Hyatt Capital View, 15th floor
Who's coming? Who will we see at the TPSE reception Celebration of Effective Math Teaching, Thurs 8-10, Hyatt Capital View, 15th floor
August 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
MathFest!!!!!
Who's coming? Who will we see at the TPSE reception Celebration of Effective Math Teaching, Thurs 8-10, Hyatt Capital View, 15th floor
Who's coming? Who will we see at the TPSE reception Celebration of Effective Math Teaching, Thurs 8-10, Hyatt Capital View, 15th floor
The NSF canceled all grants to UCLA- including IPAM (one of the math research centers). Terry Tao weighs in on the impact of this decision (dressed up in the language of fighting antisemitism.)
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
August 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The NSF canceled all grants to UCLA- including IPAM (one of the math research centers). Terry Tao weighs in on the impact of this decision (dressed up in the language of fighting antisemitism.)
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
Life expectancy in Gaza dropped from 75.5 years pre-war to 40.6 years, according to this study in the Lancet.
#CeasefireNow
#CeasefireNow
July 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Life expectancy in Gaza dropped from 75.5 years pre-war to 40.6 years, according to this study in the Lancet.
#CeasefireNow
#CeasefireNow
Great aerial shots of the latest volcanic activity in Iceland- near the Blue Lagoon.
July 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Great aerial shots of the latest volcanic activity in Iceland- near the Blue Lagoon.
TIL there's a place in Venezuela where that has nearly continuous lightning about half the year. About 1.6M lightning bolts a year. Look up "catatumbo lightning."
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
July 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
TIL there's a place in Venezuela where that has nearly continuous lightning about half the year. About 1.6M lightning bolts a year. Look up "catatumbo lightning."
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
I have filled out hundreds of applications checking different things depending what the options allowed. I literally cried when the 2000 census let me check two boxes.
How is this a story @NYTimes? If you were born in Africa and moved to the US, isn't African American a perfectly appropriate?
How is this a story @NYTimes? If you were born in Africa and moved to the US, isn't African American a perfectly appropriate?
July 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I have filled out hundreds of applications checking different things depending what the options allowed. I literally cried when the 2000 census let me check two boxes.
How is this a story @NYTimes? If you were born in Africa and moved to the US, isn't African American a perfectly appropriate?
How is this a story @NYTimes? If you were born in Africa and moved to the US, isn't African American a perfectly appropriate?
What's wrong with this picture?
#Wimbledon
#Wimbledon
July 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What's wrong with this picture?
#Wimbledon
#Wimbledon
Brilliant explanation for how reforming intro math by replacing prereqs with coreqs can be both incredibly effective and feel like a failed policy to those on the ground. (New term for me: "global-local processing dilemma.")
edsource.org/2025/califor...
edsource.org/2025/califor...
June 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Brilliant explanation for how reforming intro math by replacing prereqs with coreqs can be both incredibly effective and feel like a failed policy to those on the ground. (New term for me: "global-local processing dilemma.")
edsource.org/2025/califor...
edsource.org/2025/califor...
On a day when so many friends are protesting a would-be king & his birthday parade, we stumbled on an actual king's birthday parade and a #NoKings protest in front of Buckingham Palace.
June 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
On a day when so many friends are protesting a would-be king & his birthday parade, we stumbled on an actual king's birthday parade and a #NoKings protest in front of Buckingham Palace.
Want to know more about transfer, math, and what we can all do to fix this system? Start with the new @justequations.bsky.social report on transfer:
www.justequations.org/resource/a-c...
www.justequations.org/resource/a-c...
June 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Want to know more about transfer, math, and what we can all do to fix this system? Start with the new @justequations.bsky.social report on transfer:
www.justequations.org/resource/a-c...
www.justequations.org/resource/a-c...
Talking transfer at the Complete College America policy summit. Crazy stat: when students transfer they lose on average 43% of their credits. If that problem impacted most rich, White kids it would have been fixed years ago.
June 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Talking transfer at the Complete College America policy summit. Crazy stat: when students transfer they lose on average 43% of their credits. If that problem impacted most rich, White kids it would have been fixed years ago.
How many math/stat majors does your math department produce? How does that compare with others? Explore TPSE’s new data viz dashboard, using IPEDS data to answer your questions. Search for your institution and see how it compares!
www.tpsemath.org/dataviz
www.tpsemath.org/dataviz
June 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
How many math/stat majors does your math department produce? How does that compare with others? Explore TPSE’s new data viz dashboard, using IPEDS data to answer your questions. Search for your institution and see how it compares!
www.tpsemath.org/dataviz
www.tpsemath.org/dataviz
On a message board I follow, "American Education" posted this rant under the title "My bill was $18.81, and I paid with a $20. Gen Z cashier had no idea what to do when I then gave her the extra 19 cents..."
I guess they did make their point they ... just not in the way they intended. 😂
I guess they did make their point they ... just not in the way they intended. 😂
May 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
On a message board I follow, "American Education" posted this rant under the title "My bill was $18.81, and I paid with a $20. Gen Z cashier had no idea what to do when I then gave her the extra 19 cents..."
I guess they did make their point they ... just not in the way they intended. 😂
I guess they did make their point they ... just not in the way they intended. 😂