Table of Contents Guest Editorial It's Self-Evident! Teaching Modeling Discovering Bifurcation Guiding Students to Discover Counting Formulas -With a Modeling Twist Minimodule PCBs in Your Body Minimodule and Model Reality Check Barging Ahead:...
Table of Contents Guest Editorial Creativity—A Missing Ingredient ICM Modeling Forum Results of the 2022 Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling A Maturity Evaluation Model of Data and Analytics Systems Judges’ Commentary: Data Paralysis? Use Our...
Table of Contents Publisher’s Editorial Doug Faires Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022 Guest Editorials Tributes to Frank Giordano MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 2022 Mathematical Contest in Modeling How to Ride a Cycling Time Trial Judges’...
This is a report on a graduate course I taught during the summer of 1980 in which UMAP modules were the sole text. Although the course was designed for specific reasons, some general conclusions about the design of other applied mathematics courses...
The UMAP Journal The Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications (UMAP) Journal Latest Issue UMAP Journal 46.1 Spring 2025 Edition Table of Contents Publisher’s Editorial The Mathematical Modeling Mindset Editorial Losses and Gains Articles The...
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The readers of this journal do not need to be persuaded that today's undergraduates not only must assimilate the beautiful ideas, principles, and resulting theorems that are by many considered true mathematics, but also niust be functional in using...
Table of Contents Guest Editorial Developing Interdisciplinary Problem Solving Editor's Note About This Issue MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 2013 Mathematical Contest in Modeling Applied Mathematicians Bake the Best Brownies: The Ultimate Pan Design...
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial Stirring the Pot-The Common Core and All That Editor's Note About This Issue MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 2014 Mathematical Contest in Modeling Keep Right to Keep "Right" Judges' Commentary: The Keep Right...
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial The Doug Faires Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019 Publisher's Note Guest Editorial Academic Diversity's Roles in Interdisciplinary Modeling Editor's Note Modeling Forum Results of the 2019 Interdisciplinary...
In a recent article in this Journal [Brunner 1987], the theory of absorbing Markov chains was applied to the expected number of games in the World Series, using techniques similar to those described in Olinick [1978, Chapter 10, Section IV] and Kemeny...
Lynn Steen (1941-2015), a long-time champion ofCOMAPand TheUMAP Journal, died in June. In the prospectus for this Journal (issue 0), Lynn wrote the first column for the Journal's occasional section On Jargon, which was his idea. An On Jargon column...
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Introduction Isihara and Knapp [1993] introduce fundamental ideas in an area of music theory that musicians refer to as set theory. At least one reader of that UMAP Module was inspired to do a more advanced treatise that enumerates mosaics...
teacher notes; they are usually six to eight pages long. • Articles published in various journals, including The UMAP Journal. • UMAPModules and ILAP Modules, which list prerequisites, andUMAP Minimodules; all of these feature exercises with solutions....
I have just returned from my second trip to China. I was the invited speaker at the Chinese Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modeling and Applications. There were 600 college faculty in attendance. And while there is great interest, as well...
Introduction This department of The UMAP Journal is devoted to the final step in mathematical modeling: comparing the properties and predictions of a model with what actually happens in reality. This article performs that step for a model devised more...
In this moduel data collected by two psychologists and published in a professional science journal are used to introduce a graphical technique for fitting an equation to data. Some simple measures of goodness of fit are used to compare the...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the 4th edition of a Module that was originally published in Vol. 4, No. 3 of this Journal, in 1983. We are grateful to the authors for updating it as needed over the intervening 30 years. We define index numbers. We show how the...
Using elementary calculus techniques, this unit explores the concept of viewing angle as a criterion for determing the best seat in a movie theatre. This unit also includes a detailed outline for a students data collection and analysis project. The...