Dr. Noelle Sawyer
"One way to get more confident [in math] is to get more confident asking questions. That is the thing that has helped me the most."
Quick Facts
Featured IN
Baked with Love (February 2021)
Current role
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Southwestern University in Texas
Credentials
B.A. in Mathematics and History at Vassar College
Ph.D in Mathematics at Wesleyan University
Ph.D in Mathematics at Wesleyan University
Interests
3D dynamic systems, history, baking (click here: noellesawyer.com for all kinds of delectable recipes!)
In our February 2021 – Baked with Love box, Dr. Sawyer breaks down the similarities of math, history, and baking! Even when you’re looking at a recipe or measuring out ingredients, you’re already doing math when you’re baking. Dr. Sawyer loves to experiment with what happens when you change just part of the recipe a little bit. “The recipe is math by itself,” she says!
Black Girl MATHgic Exclusive Interview Preview
“I grew up in the Bahamas and I have a lot of teachers in my family. I would spend summers with my grandma and we'd be doing math lessons and spelling lessons and cross stitch [...] when I got to undergrad [here in the States], I was like, I'm going to be a math major and no one can stop me!”
