Co-Founder
Math Amigos, New Mexico
James Taylor is co-founder of the MathAmigos community math initiative in in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He retired after 21 years at Santa Fe Preparatory School as computer science department head, computer and mathematics teacher, as well as director of technology. He has been working with math circles for students and teachers since an early 2006 tour of math circles in the San Francisco Bay Area and has had an interest in provocative and subversive mathematics education since the 1980s. Further, James helped run New Mexico’s first Julia Robinson Math Festival, and several since, as well as judging and running math wrangles, and prepared teams for math competitions. He has taught courses in mathematical problem solving at both the middle and high school levels for 20 years and has mentored teachers in math circle approaches in the upper elementary school grades. Since the late 1990s, he has also been involved in teaching computational science and computer modeling in the US and Mexico.
Since "retirement," James' math participation in initiatives have reached throughout northern New Mexico and parts of Utah and Arizona via the Alliance of Indigenous Math Circles. The primary focus of the MathAmigos work that is the subject of this initial study has been with Santa Fe Public Schools, and has reached hundreds of teachers and students, grades 2 though 12.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM