US Scientists Slam K12 De-emphasis on Mathematics – Watts Up With That?
Scientists have written an open letter criticising an effort to de-emphasise advanced mathematics in K-12 courses.
Open Letter on K-12 Mathematics
We write to express our alarm over recent trends in K-12 mathematics education in the United States. All of us have first-hand experience of the role that clear mathematical thinking has played in advancing information technology and American economic competitiveness. We all also share the urgent concern that the benefits of a robust mathematical education, and the career opportunities it opens up, should be shared more widely between students of all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, and economic status. We fully agree that mathematics education “should not be a gatekeeper but a launchpad.”
However, we are deeply concerned about the unintended consequences of recent well-intentioned approaches to reform mathematics education, particularly the California Mathematics Framework (CMF). Such frameworks aim to reduce achievement gaps by limiting the availability of advanced mathematical courses to middle schoolers and beginning high schoolers. While such reforms superficially seem “successful” at reducing disparities at the high school level, they are merely “kicking the can” to college. While it is possible to succeed in STEM at college without taking advanced courses in high school, it is more challenging. College students who need to spend their early years taking introductory math courses may require more time to graduate. They may need to give up other opportunities and are more likely to struggle academically. Such a reform would disadvantage K-12 public school students in the United States compared with their international and private-school peers. It may lead to a de facto privatization of advanced mathematics K-12 education and disproportionately harm students with fewer resources.
Another deeply worrisome trend is devaluing essential mathematical tools such as calculus and algebra in favor of seemingly more modern “data science.” As STEM professionals and educators we should be sympathetic to this approach, and yet, we reject it wholeheartedly. The ability to gather and analyze massive amounts of data is indeed transforming our society. But “data science” – computer science, statistics, and artificial intelligence- is built on the foundations of algebra, calculus, and logical thinking. While these mathematical fields are centuries old and sometimes more, they are arguably even more critical for today’s grand challenges than in the Sputnik era.
We call on national, state, and local governments to involve college-level STEM educators and STEM professionals in the design of K-12 mathematics and science education curriculum, set the following as explicit goals, and allocate resources to help school districts meet these goals:
1. All students, regardless of background, have access to a math curriculum with precision and rigor, and that would enable them to pursue STEM degrees and careers if they so choose.
2. Far from being deliberately held back, all students should have the opportunity to be nurtured and challenged to fulfill their potential. This is not only for their own benefit but also for society and the nation’s economic competitiveness.
3. There cannot be a “one size fits all” approach to K-12 mathematical education. Students should be offered multiple pathways and timelines to explore mathematics. But one of these pathways should be the option to obtain the fundamental preparation for college-level STEM, including algebra, calculus, and logical reasoning. Students should have the opportunity to take those classes at varying grade levels of middle and high school when they are ready, so that they acquire the tools to explore other STEM options and can build their proficiency in a balanced pacing, avoiding irresponsible compression late in high school.
Mathematical education is a challenging enterprise, and we have the utmost respect for our K-12 colleagues who are doing this hard work. In appreciation of the difficulty, we believe that changes to educational standards should be approached with care, using incremental experimentation building on lessons learned from both the US and abroad and using credible measures of success. In contrast, initiatives like the CMF propose drastic changes based on scant and inconclusive evidence. Subjecting the children of our largest state to such an experiment is the height of irresponsibility.
Finally, K-12 math curriculum development cannot be disconnected from one of its most important end goals: Preparing students for success in college-level STEM education and a STEM career. As educators in public and private institutions, and working professionals in the technology industry, we have a first-hand understanding of the skills needed for this goal. While the US K-12 system has much to improve, the current trends will instead take us further back. Reducing access to advanced mathematics and elevating trendy but shallow courses over foundational skills would cause lasting damage to STEM education in the country and exacerbate inequality by diminishing access to the skills needed for social mobility.
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Clifford Mass, Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington; Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, numerical modeler
Samuel Matej, Research Professor of Radiology, University of Pennnsylvania
Norman Matloff, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Abraham Matta, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Boston University
Eric S Maurer, Director of Classical Engagement, Regina Angelorum Academy; 2020 Archdiocese of Boston Excellence in Education Award recipient
Nelson L Max, Distinguished Professor emeritus of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Alex Mackenzie Phillip May, Postdoctoral scholar, Physics, Stanford University
Barbara R Mayden, 8th Grade Algebra 1 Teacher, Private School in Houston, TX; BA, MA, EdD (expected 2022)
Arya Mazumdar, Associate Professor, Halicioglu Data Science Institute and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego
Barry C Mazur, Gerharde Gade University Professor, Harvard University; National Medal of Science, Chauvenet Prize, Cole Prize, Veblen Prize
Aaron McCollum, AP Math and Computer Science Teacher, Richmond County School System
Scott A McGregor, Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Broadcom Corporation; Fortune 500 CEO; Founder of the Broadcom Foundation
Stephen E McKeown, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas; J.D., Ph.D.
Peter L McMahon, Assistant Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Patrick Meade, Professor, C.N. Yang Instiute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University
Dinesh Mehta, Professor of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines
Raghu Meka, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Ray Merewether, Cheif Scientist, retired; 3 sole inventor patents; ~80 coinventor
Diego A Mesa, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
Scott D Metzler, Research Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania
David A Meyer, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
Peter F Michelson, Professor of Physics, Stanford University
James Mickens, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Risto Miikkulainen, Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin; IEEE Fellow
Kenneth D Miller, Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University; Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Adrian B Mims Sr., Founder & CEO, The Calculus Project Inc.; Recipient of The 1954 Luminary Award
Yair N Minsky, Einar Hille Professor of Mathematics, Yale University; Fellow of the AMS
Anshuman Mishra, Principal AI Researcher, Numenta
Pratyush Mishra, Cryptographer, Aleo; PhD from UC Berkeley
Umar Mohideen, Professor of Physics, University of California, Riverside; Fellow, American Physical Society
Daniel A Moncayo, Associate Professor of Economics, Brigham Young University Idaho
Andrea Montanari, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics, Stanford University
Niema Moshiri, Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Dana Moshkovitz, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
Michael C Mozer, Professor / Research Scientist, University of Colorado, Boulder / Google
Shankar Mukherji, Assistant Professor of Physics and Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University in St Louis
David B Mumford, University Professor Emeritus, Brown University; Fields Medal, former President of the International Mathematics Union
Kevin Murphy, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google Research (Brain Team); PhD
Venkatesh N Murthy, Professor and Director of Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
Larry Musolino, Lecturer, Mathematics and Statistics, Pennsylvania State University; Professional Engineer (State of PA)
Mircea Mustata, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Sergey Nadtochiy, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Mayur Naik, Professor and Graduate Chair of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Rahul Nandkishore, Associate Professor of Physics and Fellow, Center for Theory of Quantum Matter, University of Colorado Boulder
Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Michael Neff, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Jelani Nelson, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Ilya M Nemenman, Professor of Physics and Biology, Emory University; Fellow, American Physical Society; Simons Investigator
Sajjad Nezhadi, Graduate Student in Computer Science, University of Maryland
Hung Ngo, VP of Research, RelationalAI Inc.; Former professor of Computer Science at SUNY Buffalo
Yi Ni, Professor of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, John W. Hancock Professor of Engineering, Virginia Tech
Anantha Kumar Nivarti, Sr Staff Hardware Engineer, Tesla Apple AMD; Semiconductor professional. CPU designer. Math lover. Graduated from NITK India
Armita Nourmohammad, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Washington
Maxim I Novikov, MD, Anesthesiologist, Geisinger Medical Center
Zohar Nussinov, Professor of Physics, Washington University in Saint Louis
Darian O Nwankwo, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Cornell University
Barbara A Oakley, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Oakland University; Fellow of IEEE and AIMBE; Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year; Coursera’s inaugural “Innovation Instructor.”
Vadim Oganesyan, Professor of Physics, The City University of New York
Kasso Okoudjou, Professor of Mathematics, Tufts University; Member of the AMS Council
Alex Olshevsky, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Alexey Onufriev, Professor of Computer Science and Physics, Virginia Tech
Kathryn D Ortega, Math Teacher, Oakland Unified School District
Rafail Ostrovsky, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; IEEE, IACR Fellow, a foreign member of Academia Europaea
Onyema Osuagwu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Morgan State University; Assistant Director, Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy Center
Art Owen, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University; Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medal, Noether Senior Scholar Award, American Statistical Association
Hakan Ozadam, Research Scientist, University of Texas at Austin
Peter S Ozsváth, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University; National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Guggeinheim Fellow, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
Sonia Paban, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Ioannis Panageas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Julian Panetta, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
Periklis A Papakonstantinou, Associate Professor, Rutgers University, Rutgers Business School
Charalampos Papamanthou, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Yale University; Co-director of Yale Applied Cryptography Laboratory
George J Pappas, UPS Foundation Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Dana Paquin, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; California Polytechnic State University; Former Director of the Stanford Math Circle
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Professor of Physics, University of Oregon; Fellow, American Physical Society
Ramamohan Paturi, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan J Paulson, Software Engineer
Chris Peikert, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Robert Pelcovits, Professor of Physics, Brown University
Will Perkins, Associate Professor, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Seth Pettie, Professor of EECS, University of Michigan
Pavel Pevzner, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,, University of California, San Diego; ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, International Society for Computational Biology Senior Scientist Award
E. Sterl Phinney, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology
Joseph Picone, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University
Kristofer Pister, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Plesser, Mathematics Teacher, C. E. Jordan High School
M. Ronen Plesser, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Duke University
Jennifer S Poehlmann, Senior Lecturer of Chemistry, Introductory Course Coordinator, Stanford University
Dave Polidori, Senior Director and Research Fellow, Janssen Research and Development
Olga Polyanskaya, Statistician, Forma Therapeutics
Yury Polyanskiy, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bjorn Poonen, Distinguished Professor in Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Packard Fellow, Simons Investigator
Mihnea Popa, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University; AMS Centennial Fellow, AMS Fellow, Simons Fellow
Raluca A Popa, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Joya D Pramanik, Engineering Program Manager; Chemical engineering PhD
Gopal Prasad, Raoul Bott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Michigan; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation Lifetime achievement award, Fellow of the American Math Society
Kisalaya Prasad, Software Engineer, Robinhood
John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Sciences
Molly Przeworski, Professor of Biological Sciences and of Systems Biology, Columbia University
Xiaoliang Qi, Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Lili Qiu, Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin; ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Dragomir R Radev, Professor of Computer Science, Yale University; ACM Fellow
Leo Radzihovsky, Professor of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder; Fellow of American Physical Society, Simons Investigator, Apker, Hertz, Packard, Sloan Fellow
Prasad Raghavendra, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Srinivas Raghu, Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University
Kianoosh Raika, Senior Software Systems Engineer, Red Sash; 20+ years industry
Surjeet Rajendran, Associate Professor of Physics, The Johns Hopkins University; Sloan Fellow, New Horizons Prize in Physics, Simons Investigator
Aditya Ramamoorthy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Mathematics, Iowa State University
Antonio Rangel, Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology and Economics, California Institute of Technology
Leonardo M Ranzani, Experimental Quantum Physicist, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Satish Rao, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; Fellow of ACM, Fulkerson Prize
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Meisam Razaviyayn, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Stuart Reges, Teaching Professor, University of Washington; UW Distinguished Teaching Award
Daniel Reichman, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Glenn Reinman, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Vladimir Retakh, Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers University; Fellow of the AMS
Leo Reyzin, Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Rick L Richardson, Chief Information Officer, Letter Technology Inc
Dario L Ringach, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles; AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility awardee
Jason Roberts, Founder, Math Academy
Phillip Rogaway, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis; IACR Fellow, ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
Vladimir Rokhlin, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Yale University
Sergey Romanovsky, Sr Software Development Engineer, Amazon; MSc
Marcus Roper, Professor of Mathematics and Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
Allyson C Rosen, Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Janet E Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY
Joshua Rosenberg, Mathematics Postdoc, University of Washington
Gregory Rosenthal, PhD student in computer science, University of Toronto, University of Toronto
Aaron Roth, Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Grant M Rotskoff, Assistant Professor Chemistry, Stanford University
Tim Roughgarden, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
Gloire Rubambiza, PhD Student, Computer Science, Cornell University
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), Fellow of ACM
Aviad Rubinstein, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo, Director, Euler Circle
Holly Rushmeier, John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science, Yale University; ACM Fellow
Alexander Russell, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering/Mathematics, University of Connecticut
Nicole Rust, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Dorsa Sadigh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Kate Saenko, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Amir H Safavi-Naeini, Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University
Ilya Safro, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Delaware
Amit Sahai, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Fellow of the ACM and IACR; Simons Investigator
Anant Sahai, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Marco Sangiovanni, PhD Student, Mathematics, Princeton University
Alberto L Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Professor, Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley; Fellow of IEEE and ACM, Member NAE, IEEE Wolfson Clerk Maxwell Medal
Juan G Santiago, Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor, Stanford University; APS Fellow, ASME Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Mark Sapir, Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
Thomas Sargent, Professor of Economics, New York University/Emeritus Stanford University; Nobel Prize in Economics (2011)
Abhishek Sarkar, Scientist, Vesalius Therapeutics; PhD, Computer Science
Lawrence Saul, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
David Savitt, Professor and Chair, Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University; Fellow of the AMS, PECASE
Virginia Savova, Distinguished Scientist, Sanofi
Richard T Scalettar, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis
Brian Scassellati, Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Cole Schlesinger, Founding Research Engineer, Akita Software
Michael B Schlomer, Teacher and Department Chair of Mathematics, Elder High School, Cincinnati, Ohio; MA, MEd.
Mark J Schnitzer, Professor, Biology & Applied Physics, Stanford University
Gus K Schrader, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Northwestern University
John Michael Schultz, Principal Software Developer, Amazon; PhD
Daniel G Schwartz, Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University
Albert Schwarz, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics ( Emeritus), University of California at Davis
Michael D Scott, Professor of Instruction, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
Gesualdo Scutari, Professor of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
Nathan Seiberg, Professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ
Daniel Seita, Postdoc, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Jasjeet Sekhon, Meyer Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Yale University; Fellow of the American Statistics Association
Amin L Sennour, Software Engineer
Carlo H Sequin, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley; IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow
Manish Shah, Chief Executive Officer, PeerWell
Vaishaal Naanny Shankar, Applied Scientist, Amazon; PhD CS, UC Berkeley
Solmaz Shariat Torbaghan, Director of Machine Learning, Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company
Yoav Sharon, Manager – Power System Control, S&C Electric; Senior IEEE member
Madhu Shashanka, Founder and Chief Scientist, Concentric
Sriram Shastry, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jalal Shatah, Professor of Mathematics, New York University; Silver Chair, member of AAAS
Scott R Sheffield, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), Clay Research Award, Loeve Prize, PECASE
Eugene J Shekita, Engineer, Researcher, Manager, Google (retired)
Abhi Shelat, Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Zhixun Shen, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Stephen Shenker, Richard Weiland Professor, Department of Physics, Stanford University
Mary Ann Shimer, Mathematics Teacher, Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School; BA Math/Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Kirill Shtengel, Professor of Physics, University of California, Riverside; Fellow of the American Physical Society
Michael Shulman, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of San Diego
Qimiao Si, Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics, Rice University
Dennis A Silage, Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Temple University; ASEE National Outstanding Teaching Award
Alistair J Sinclair, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley; Gödel Prize; Fulkerson Prize; ACM Fellow
Michael Sipser, Donner Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fellow of the AAAS, Former Dean of Science, MIT
Herbert Sizek, PhD Student in Complex Systems, Indiana University at Bloomington
Witold Skiba, Professor of Physics, Yale University
Eric A Skiff, Co-Founder, Tanooki Labs; CTO / CoFounder of Tech agency and startups
Adam D Smith, Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Robert M Solovay, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley; Member NAS
Raghav Somani, Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Fang Song, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Portland State University
Kannan Soundararajan, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of the School of Humanities and Sciences (Mathematics), Stanford University; Salem Prize, Ostrowski Prize, Infosys Prize, SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, Simons Investigator
Costas J Spanos, Professor, Dept of EECS, Director, CITRIS, University of California, Berkeley
David E Speyer, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Alexey Spiridonov, Software engineer; Computational biologist; Research mathematician (previously), Meta Platforms, Inc
Boris Zinovievich Spivak, Professor of Physics, University of Washington
Manu Sridharan, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside
Saurabh Srivastava, Founder, CEO, Warpdrive by Synthetic Minds; PhD in Computer Science, UMD; Computing Innovations Fellow; started two companies
Gigliola Staffilani, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; AAAS, NAS
Elizabeth Statmore, Math Teacher, Lowell High School, San Francisco
Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
James M Strickland, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Hao Su, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Igor Yakov Subbotin, Professor of Mathematics, National University
Madhu Sudan, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University; Nevanlinna Prize, Infosys Prize, Member NAS
Yizhou Sun, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Christian Sykes, Product Analyst, Pinnacle 21; MA in Mathematics (University of Maryland), former math educator and tutor (high school through advanced undergraduate)
Sergei Tabachnikov, Professor of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University; AMS Fellow
Jan Tabaczynski, Software Engineer, The Athletic
Garry K Tan, Venture Capitalist, Initialized Capital; Forbes Midas List Top 100 Global VC
Terence C Tao, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; Fields Medal; National Academy of Science member
Richard Taylor, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; Shaw Prize, Breakthrough Prize, fellow of the Royal Society, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Stefano Tessaro, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Ari Trachtenberg, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Hung Tran, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Son C Tran, Professor of Computer Science, New Mexico State University
Mark Trodden, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department Chair, co-Director Center for Particle Cosmology, University of Pennsylvania
Randy True, Founder and Executive Director, Focus on Foundations, STEM Education Nonprofit; Founder and CEO FloodLAMP Biotechnologies, Founder startup True Materials Inc., B.S. Physics Stanford
Charalampos Tsourakakis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
Loring Tu, Professor of Mathematics, Tufts University
Thomas M Turchioe, Expert, Spatial – Global CoE, SAP; Inventor, patent #5602523
Jonathan Ullman, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Chris Umans, Professor of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology
Eli Upfal, Professor of Computer Science, Brown University; The Rush C. Hawkins University Professor of Computer Science, ACM and IEEE Fellow, Kannelakis Prize
Al Urim, Head of Engineering, Aalto
Michael Usher, Professor of Mathematics, University of Georgia
Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ashok K Vaish, Principal, Balanced Growth Fund
Teresa M Van Lone, Secondary Math Teacher, Easton School District, Easton, WA
Mani Varadarajan, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Abhay Vardhan, Software Engineer; PhD Computer Science
Thomas Varley, PhD Candidate, Indiana University
Michael H Vartanian, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, San Jose State University
Kashyap V Vasavada, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Steven and Renee Finn Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Namrata Vaswani, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University; IEEE Fellow
Akshay Venkatesh, Professor of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study; Fields Medal, Salem Prize, Ramanujan Prize
Kevin Ventullo, Staff Engineer, Google
Victor Vianu, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering,, University of California, San Diego; ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Vlad C Vicol, Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University
Ashvin Vishwanath, Professor of Physics, Harvard University; Member AAAS
Jan Vondrak, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Jim Waldo, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science and CTO, Harvard University
Avery Wang, Principal Research Scientist, Apple; Founder and Inventor of Shazam
Yusu Wang, Professor, Halicioglu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego
Yuxuan Wang, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Florida
Michael S Waterman, Distinguished Institute Professor, University of Virginia; National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Brent R Waters, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Simons Investigator, Sloan Fellow, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, PECASE, Sloan Fellow, Packard Fellow, Microsoft Faculty Fellow
John Wawrzynek, Professor, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Kevin Wayne, Phillip Y. Goldman ’86 University Lecturer in Computer Science, Princeton University
Michael B Weissman, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; APS Fellow
John S Wettlaufer, A.M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics, Mathematics & Physics, Yale University
Steven R White, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California, Irvine; Member, National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Daniel Wichs, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Northeastern University; Sloan Fellow
Michael Willis, Postdoctoral Scholar (Mathematics), Stanford University
Barry M Wise, President, Eigenvector Research, Inc.; EAS and Wold medal winner for achievements in data science (chemometrics)
Stephen J Wright, Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eli Yablonovitch, Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Benjamin Franklin Medal, Edison Medal of IEEE
Laurence G Yaffe, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Washington
Avi Yagil, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Deborah Yelon, Professor and Chair, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego
Lexing Ying, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Alexander Yong, Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bryant W York, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Portland State University; ACM Fellow
Andrea Young, Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Zhiwei Yun, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, AMS Fellow, Packard Fellow, ICCM Gold Medal
Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor of Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study; Member of the National Academy of Sciences
David Zeeman, Mathematics Teacher, San Francisco Unified School District
Di Zhang, Associate professor of electrical engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
Wei Zhang, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, Fellow of the AMS, Simons Fellowship
Yuanlin Zhang, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Texas Tech University
Maksym Zhenirovskyy, Principal Engineer, PARC; Ph.D. in Physics
Jonathan Zhu, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati; PhD, Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Eric Zitzewitz, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
Denis Zorin, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics and Chair of Computer Science, New York University
David Zuckerman, Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Simons Investigator, ACM Fellow, Packard Fellow
I don’t have a problem with schools providing alternatives to advanced math classes. Some otherwise intelligent people just can’t do advanced math, any more than I can write world class poetry or compose a rock song anyone would want to listen to.
But advanced math classes should always be an option. Denying advanced math courses to children with a born talent for math is just as bad as denying artistically gifted students access to musical instruments and art lessons and materials.