As part of the Pi Week national rollout of new documentary Counted Out: Math Is Power  from director Vicki Abeles (Road to Nowhere), Lafayette is hosting a screening. Counted Out investigates the biggest crises of our time—political polarization, racial and economic inequity, a global pandemic, and climate change—through an unexpected lens: math. Want a country where everyone can understand the math that undergirds our society—and can help shape it? This film is a step in that direction. Open to everyone. 4-6 p.m. Wed., March 12Landis Cinema, Buck HallMORE

Sponsors: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Hanson Center for Inclusive STEM Education, Office of Inclusion, and Department of Film and Media Studies

Submitted by: Robert Root