Modeling Botpaths with Linear Functions
The context for this Modeling Pull-Out involves determining paths for robots (botpaths) so that they avoid colliding ...
UMAP Journal 42.3 Fall 2021 Edition - The 2021 ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's EditorialA Very Special Doug Faires Lifetime Achievement Award for 2021 ICM Modeling Fo...
Consortium 121, Fall/Winter 2021
Table of Contents:From the Publisher's Desk: Toward a K-12 Mathematical Sciences CurriculumGAIMME Time: The MAA's Ins...
The MAA's Instructional Practices Guide and The GAIMME Report
In 2017 as part of a concerted effort to improve issues of access and equity in mathematics education, the Mathematic...
Alicia Boole Stott, The Duchess of Arcamedia
This Geometer's Corner stems from work I am doing on
a book that focuses on how to use GeoGebra to construct
the ...
Two-Edge-Length Polyhedra
Which 3-dimensional convex polyhedra,
all of whose faces are triangles,
can be made with isosceles
triangle fac...
Modeling Pooled-Sample Testing, Part I
The context for this Modeling Pull-Out involves pooled-sample testing for diseases or drug usage in order to reduce c...
UMAP Journal 42.4 Winter 2021 Edition - The 2021 MCM Contest Edition
Table of Contents
Publisher's Editorial
Honoring Robert Moses
Remembering Robert Moses (1935-2021)
A...
UMAP Journal 41.1 Spring 2020 Edition
Table of Contents
Guest Editorial
Advanced Mathematical Modeling
Articles
Mr. Markov Plays Goose Solita...
Math for Drummers (UMAP)
This Module presents musical and mathematical topics in a general education mathematics course entitled Sounding Numb...
Change-Point Models: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?
Introduction
So what is a "change point"? Formally, a change point is a point at
which the statistical propert...
Mr. Markov Plays Goose Solitaire
Introduction
The Game of the Goose (hereafter simply "Goose") is an early modern
board game, existing as early...
The Variational Principle and Einstein's Gravity
Introduction
In Isaac Newton's theory, gravity is a force between masses. You are
probably familiar with the e...
UMAP Journal 41.2 Summer 2020 Edition
Table of Contents
Guest Editorial
Down with Base-10 Logarithms!
Articles
Fish Allocation: KKT to ...
Optimizing Disaster Relief From a Navy Aircraft Carrier
Abstract We discuss maximizing delivery of aid from an aircraft carrier to people in an area hit by a disaster, such ...
Consortium 118, Spring/Summer 2020
Table of Contents:
From the Editor's Desk: From All of Us at COMAP
GAIMME Time: Using Modeling to Reinforce...
Math for Poets (UMAP)
This Module presents musical and mathematical topics in a general education mathematics course entitled "Sounding Num...
Fish Allocation KKT to the Rescue
Abstract We solve an actual practical problem for a fish farm. We model the problem as an inequality-constrained prof...
Modeling Movies Using Network Science, Part 2
This pull-out is the second part of a two-part series. The expectation is that students have completed the activities...
Arrangements of Curves
Geometry has dramatically
evolved from metrical
work (measuring lengths,
angles, areas and perimeters)
involv...
The Circle-Pass Matching Algorithm
Students' creative responses
to an open-ended activity
lead to a rich and interesting
mathematical model and re...
A Circle Tangent Medley
One of the classic problems
in ancient geometry
is: given three circles A, B,
and C that are pairwise tangent,
...
Using Modeling to Reinforce Non-Mathematical Skills Part 3
As instructors of mathematics, we cannot overlook the diverse array of students that pass through our classrooms. Man...
UMAP Journal 41.3 Fall 2020 Edition - The 2020 ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents
Publisher's Editorial
A Note of Thanks
ICM Modeling Forum
Results of the 2020 I...
Consortium 119, Fall/Winter 2020
Table of Contents:
From the Publisher's Desk: How to Say Thanks
GAIMME Time: Exercises Encouraging Creativi...
Modeling Crystals and Quasicrystals
This Pull Out consists of four activities that develop concepts related to mathematical crystals and quasicrystals. A...
Exercises Encouraging Creativity for Mathematical Modeling
GAIMME Time Editor's note: The goal of GAIMME time is to facilitate instructors as they include more modeling in thei...
Transforming the Cube
This edition of Geometer's
Corner will focus on how
one can transform a Cube
or Hexahedron in a very
systemat...
Folding Polyominoesto Boxes
The collection of squares
shown in Figure 1(a) can
be cut out and folded on
the line segments in the interior
...
UMAP Journal 41.4 Winter 2020 Edition - The 2020 MCM Contest Edition
Table of Contents
Publisher's Editorial
Ron Graham at Bell Labs: Stories related by Henry Pollak
Editor's...
UMAP Journal 40.1 Spring 2019 Edition
Editorial
With Many Thanks- And a Plea for Help
Final Farewell to a Founder
Articles
You Only Need a Bi...
Consortium 116, Spring/Summer 2019
Table of Contents:
From the Editor's Desk: HiMCM: Get Involved!
GAIMME Time: Using Modeling to Reinforce Non-M...
You Only Need a Bit of Luck To Win MTVs Are You the One?
Introduction
Are You the One? is an MTV reality show in which a cast of single women
and single men try to dis...
The Cutoff Paradox in the Kansas Presidential Caucuses
Abstract
The Kansas Republican Party uses an apportionment method of its own
invention to apportion delegates ...
The Coming Great Pall of China: Demography of a One-Child Family
Introduction
This department of The UMAP Journal is devoted to the final step in
mathematical modeling: compar...
Complexity Modeling: Solving Modern Problems and Confronting Real Issues
Introduction
Applied mathematics and science have made substantial progress in
modeling methodologies that hav...
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