Alice in E-Voterland
Introduction Early in February 2019, the Swiss postal authority announced a challenge: for four weeks, starting later...
Data Detectives: Support for Distance Learning at an Urban Charter School
Introduction My Fall 2020 sophomore-level Python Data Modeling Class had three main goals, all related to service-lea...
What is Math Modeling? It's a Noun! It's a Verb! It's a Mindset???
In order to teach modeling well, we need to understand what it is. The GAIMME Report stresses that modeling is a proc...
Snub Polyhedra
The last Geometer's Corner showed how the cube can be transformed into several Archimedian Solids, which are shown in...
Spanning Trees of n-Dimensional Cubes
Dots and lines diagrams known as graphs are a powerful tool for problem solving across many academic disciplines. Gra...
Modeling Botpaths with Linear Functions
The context for this Modeling Pull-Out involves determining paths for robots (botpaths) so that they avoid colliding ...
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 Plat...
Two-Edge-Length Polyhedra
Which 3-dimensional convex polyhedra, all of whose faces are triangles, can be made with isosceles triangle faces? In...
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...
A Groundwater Contaminant Extraction Model Using Complex Potentials (ILAP)
Contents 1. Setting the Scene2. Complex Analysis Background3. Idealized Groundwater Flow4. Contaminant Extraction Mod...
Minimodule and Model Reality Check Sustaining Fisheries
Introduction Consider a stock of fish. If there is no harvest, the stock will tend to renew itself with births and de...
The Dogbone is the Unique Auto-Reversing Track Configuration
Introduction Motivated by one author's grandsons play with Fisher-Price® Thomas & FriendsTM TrackmasterTM, a batt...
How Much Food Could Our School Grow? An Example Modeling Problem.
For the past few years, in GAIMME Time, we have discussed the benefits of teaching mathematical modeling as well as s...
Polygonal Numbers and The Algebra of Sequences
This edition of Geometer's Corner develops one of my all-time favorite topics to teach. What follows can be incorpora...
How Many Ties? The Maximum Possible Debate Bracket Problem
In the course of modeling and studying the fairness of debate tournaments, an interesting problem arose that is also ...
Graphs from Rectangles
At its core mathematics is concerned with the study of patterns of different kinds. What is perhaps surprising is tha...
Modeling Pooled-Sample Testing, Part II
The context for this Modeling Pull-Out involves modeling pooled- sample testing for diseases or drug usage in order t...
Data Detectives: ShotSpotter in Chicago
Introduction ShotSpotter is a technology to detect, locate, and report gunshots to police. Its deployment in Chicago ...
UMAP Journal 41.1 Spring 2020 Edition
Table of Contents Guest EditorialAdvanced Mathematical Modeling ArticlesMr. Markov Plays Goose Solitaire The Variatio...
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 properties of ...
Mr. Markov Plays Goose Solitaire
Introduction The Game of the Goose (hereafter simply "Goose") is an early modern board game, existing as early as 146...
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 equation...
UMAP Journal 41.2 Summer 2020 Edition
Table of Contents Guest Editorial Down with Base-10 Logarithms! Articles Fish Allocation: KKT to the Rescue Optimizin...
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 Non-Mathe...
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 related ...
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 Interdisciplinary Con...
Consortium 119, Fall/Winter 2020
Table of Contents: From the Publisher's Desk: How to Say Thanks GAIMME Time: Exercises Encouraging Creativity Geomete...
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