A Roadmap to a Better City
Background:
Transportation systems can help or harm a city’s growth and the lives of its residents. A successful t...
Models for Olympic Medal Tables
In addition to watching individual events during the latest summer Olympic Games in Paris, 2024, fans followed the ...
Global Sports League
Background
Fair competition in sports requires a balance of logistics, equity, and practicality, especially when ...
Cyber Strong?
Background:
More and more of our world has become connected through the wonders of modern technology. While this o...
Making Room for Agriculture
Situation:
A forest filled with towering trees and diverse wildlife was cleared to make way for agriculture. The o...
Testing Time: The Constant Wear On Stairs
The stone and other materials used to create steps are subject to constant, long-term wear, and the wear can be une...
Managing Sustainable Tourism
Juneau, Alaska, USA with a population of about 30,000 residents, set a record in 2023 with 1.6 million cruise passe...
The Septaria Numbers
Septaria In Septaria, there are only seven numbers, six of which are classified as digits. The numbers 1, 2, and 3 c...
The First-Year Seminar Assignment Problem: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach
Introduction Introduction Many colleges and universities have a first-year seminar program, serving as a crucial bri...
Gerrymandering: The Efficiency Gap
Abstract
As gerrymandering has become a powerful tool to create and maintain power in an increasingly polarized U.S....
Modeling Newtonian Cooling
Abstract We present a case study in which differential equations are applied to a real-world problem: protecting wat...
The Mathematical Modeling Mindset
More Than a Process Two days after stepping into my role as Executive Director of COMAP, I found myself in a classro...
UMAP Journal 46.1 Spring 2025 Edition
Table of Contents
Publisher’s Editorial The Mathematical Modeling Mindset
Editorial Losses and Gains
Articles T...
Modeling Airline Scheduling (Modeling Module)
The context for this Modeling Module is airline scheduling. It begins with a preliminary reading, Networks, which pro...
Can’t Occur as a Knot Projection: 4-Valent Multi-3-gon 3-Polytopes
When one is trying to understand a “mathematical landscape” it is often helpful to construct lots of examples and col...
A Centroidal Medley
One of my favorite geometric results is the one that states: The centroid of a triangle is two thirds of the distance...
Modeling Airline Scheduling
The context for this Modeling Pull‑Out is airline scheduling. It begins with a preliminary reading, Networks, which p...
Consortium 127, Fall/Winter 2024
Table of Contents:
Editorial: Dear Reader
Student Research Corner: Can’t Occur as a Knot Projection: 4-Valent Mult...
UMAP Journal 45.4 Winter 2024 Edition
Table of Contents
Editorial New Contest Opportunities
Guest Editorial A Match Made in Math
MCM Modeling Forum
Re...
UMAP Journal 45.3 Fall 2024 Edition
Table of Contents
Guest Editorial Welcome: COMAP’s New Director
Editor’s Note: SCUDEM IX 2024 Contest
ICM Modelin...
Picking the Perfect Pet
Background
Throughout history, humans and animals have coexisted, relying on each other for aid and comfort. From...
Reducing Illegal Wildlife Trade
Background:
Illegal wildlife trade negatively impacts our environment and threatens global biodiversity. It is est...
Searching for Submersibles
Background:
Maritime Cruises Mini-Submarines (MCMS), a company based in Greece, builds submersibles capable of car...
Momentum in Tennis
Background:
In the 2023 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s final, 20-year-old Spanish rising star Carlos Alcaraz defeated 36-ye...
Great Lakes Water Problem
Background:
The Great Lakes of the United States and Canada are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world...
Sustainability of Property Insurance
Background:
Extreme-weather events are becoming a crisis for property owners and insurers. The world has endured “...
Resource Availability and Sex Ratios
Background:
While some animal species exist outside of the usual male or female sexes, most species are substantia...
Proximity: Modeling Rainfall (Modeling Module)
The context for this Modeling Module is estimating the amount of rainfall in a certain region based on rain gauges sp...
Quadrilaterals Via a Paper Folding Approach
Every day when the mail arrives, I typically get an array of items which consist of a single rectangular "postcard" w...
A Geometrical Sculpture Inspires a Geometrical Construction
While doing my Holiday shopping at the Derby Street Mall. I came across the polyhedral sculpture shown in Figure 1a. ...
Proximity: Modeling Rainfall
The context for this Modeling Pull‑Out is estimating the amount of rainfall in a certain region based on rain gauges ...
Consortium 126, Spring/Summer 2024
Table of Contents:
Guest Editorial: Thanks Gary!
Geometer’s Corner: A Geometrical Sculpture Inspires
Modeling Pul...
Same-Score Streaks in Basketball and in Other Sports
Target Audience
Students with a background in probability and statistics.
Abstract
We present a real-world problem...
Making Graph Theory Relevant
Abstract
We describe how we used contextual teaching and learning principles to build a graph theory project for ma...
Teaching Mathematical Modeling In a Sustainability Context
Abstract
Within the tertiary education framework, we developed a pilot course focused on mathematical modeling, pla...
The FA Cup Soccer Tournament: Probabilities vs. Predictions
Introduction The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout tourna...