Here are some of the past newsletters that TAHSM has distributed to members:

SIGMAA TAHSM Business Meeting Notes

Sacramento, CA … 8 August 2025

·       What do our members need? How should we be serving our membership?

o   Activities at sectional meetings would be helpful — it’s uncommon for teachers to get funding for MathFest.

§  Would be a lot less travel, less expensive.

§  Talk to ProjectNeXT-ers

o   Finding ways to support high school mathematics research.

§  Example: Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo at Euler Circle.

§  It would be good to have resources for college faculty who want to do that kind of mentoring, or high school teachers want to recommend their students for that kind of mentoring.

§  Credentialing between high school and university instructors is a barrier to bridging the gap. Panel to discuss it might be useful even if we’re not the policymakers.

§  Financial realities of high schoolers taking college classes

o   AP Precalculus

o   LaTeX training

§  Research is an increasingly LaTeX-y landscape, but there’s a lot of aversion.

§  Overleaf!

o   Taking a college course and making it work for high school

§  Students need to be self-motivated and organized, but they’re not college students, so teachers need to be sensitive to the kind of structure high schoolers need. Contact time is vastly different. Some adaptation is necessary. How have other people been doing it?

o   Do we have enough people from the different sections to make this work? As in, would we be able to get enough at the same place at the same time?

·       How can we accomplish some of these things?

o   It used to be, we go to MathFest and offer speakers. But now... what?

o   Could be things like section meetings, online meetings.

o   Building a library of videos and other resources.

o   Could be folded in with Zoom discussions/workshops. Very easy to host/record them.

§  Doing it monthly might be a bit too much, but could be say, once or twice a semester. Bigger undertaking but less often.

§  Our value-add is the community of people who want to talk about this. Anybody can look things up online, but having it feel like an *event* would be great.

§  Maybe something like 20 minute presentation on a particular topic, and then followed by just as much if not more discussion.

§  SIGMAA membership doesn’t come with AMC high school membership. If the MAA wants to build its high school membership, this really would be a good way to get people involved …

§  Can we reach people who aren’t members?

§  AMC could be a way to get the word out and show that we do care about high school teachers — MAA isn’t just for college stuff.

o   Panel on modeling

o   High school summer programs (like GHP)

o   Can we record things from MathFest?

§  No. But we can post slides.

·       Leadership

o   Chair

o   Chair Elect

o   Program Director

o   Secretary

o   Treasurer

o   Need to revise charter