A Method for Ranking Teams Based on Simple Paths
Abstract Rankings play an important role in sports, as well as in the evaluation of proposals and the operation of s...
Executive Summary
In the Interdisciplinary Contest in Mathematics (ICM) and Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), a team provides a o...
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 Bit of Luck to ...
Consortium 116, Spring/Summer 2019
Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: HiMCM: Get Involved! GAIMME Time: Using Modeling to Reinforce Non-Mathem...
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 discover ...
The Cutoff Paradox in the Kansas Presidential Caucuses
Abstract The Kansas Republican Party uses an apportionment method of its own invention to apportion delegates to can...
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: comparing th...
Complexity Modeling: Solving Modern Problems and Confronting Real Issues
Introduction Applied mathematics and science have made substantial progress in modeling methodologies that have resu...
Using Modeling To Reinforce Non-Mathematical Skills Part 2 - Teamwork
Even though we are math teachers by discipline, our students need to be prepared for an interdisciplinary world. A so...
Tetrahedral Transformations
One of the great things that can happen in mathematics occurs when ideas in one discipline can be used to understand ...
Convex Isoscelestriangle Polyhedra
The study of convex (no holes or notches) 3- dimensional polyhedra whose faces are isosceles triangles (two sides of ...
Debating the Sorting of Debate Teams: Mathematical Modeling to the Rescue
Debate tournaments routinely involve between 40 and 400 teams and the goal, as in any tournament, is to determine the...
Could These Bones Be Amelia Earhart's?
In this pull-out, students create models for predicting human stature from bone lengths. The goal for the development...
UMAP Journal 40.2 & 40.3 Summer / Fall 2019 Edition - The 2019 ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial The Doug Faires Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019 Publisher's Note Guest...
Consortium 117, Fall/Winter 2019
Table of Contents:
From the Editor's Desk: Making the World Great Again
GAIMME Time: Using Modeling to Promote Inte...
UMAP Journal 40.4 Winter 2019 Edition - The 2019 MCM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial ICTMA19 Hong Kong-A Report Editorial Note: Disclaimer MCM Modeling Forum R...
Using Modeling to Promote Interest in Mathematics
We are going to take a short break from our series on Using Modeling to Reinforce Non- Mathematical Skills to discuss...
Fractal Beginnings
Much of the geometry
you learn in school can
be used to describe
man-made objects. We see all
around us examp...
From Trees to Polyhedra
Polyhedra have fascinated mankind since ancient times. Mathematical work about polyhedra has been done in Egypt, Gree...
Modeling Movies Using Network Science, Part 1
This pull-out is the first part of a two part series. In Activity 1, students are introduced to some basic definition...
UMAP Journal 39.1 Spring 2018 Edition
Table of Contents Editorial Mathematics: Unreasonably Ineffective? Articles An Integer Programming Approach to Crop...
The Effect of Brexit on EU Voting Power
Abstract The Treaty of Lisbon, the latest treaty governing law-making in the European Union (EU), went fully into ef...
An Integer Programming Approach to Crop Rotation Planning at an Organic Farm
Abstract Crop rotation is an important component of organic farming because it can help to maintain healthy soil and...
Some Limitations of Financial Models
Abstract This paper is motivated by the essays of N.N. Taleb [2001; 2007; 2008] on randomness in the real world. In ...
Randomness in Cryptography
Introduction This article is about randomness, in particular about random binary strings, and, even more particularl...
Consortium 114, Spring/Summer 2018
Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: Signs of the Times Math Today: Mathematical Aspects of Gerrymandering G...
Once in a Blue Moon
The context of this Pull-Out is the changing appearance of the moon from night to night as well as its effects on Ear...
Mathematical Aspects of Gerrymandering
As I write, the Supreme Court is hearing cases about gerrymandering, and at the center of the arguments are issues of...
Iterating Complex Linear Functions
When you iterate a function, you create a sequence. This sequence is called an orbit. Much has been written about ite...
The 'Middle' of a Graph: Partitions, Eccentricities and Degress of Vertices in a Graph
Diagrams consisting of dots and lines (see Figure 1) called graphs are a very powerful visual tool for helping unders...
UMAP Journal 39.2 Summer 2018 Edition - The 2018 ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial The Doug Faires Award for 2018 Modeling Forum Results of the 2018 Interdisc...
Consortium 115, Fall/Winter 2018
Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: IM2C - Why Do We Do This? GAIMME Time: Using Modeling to Reinforce Non-...
UMAP Journal 39.3 Fall 2018 Edition - The 2018 MCM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial What Good Are Contests? Editor's Note MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 20...
Classification Using CART Models
Classification and Regression Trees (CART) are often used in data mining with the goal of creating a model that predi...
Tetrahedra
Tetrahedra, the analogue of triangles in the plane for three-dimensional Euclidean space, are surprisingly unstudied ...
Playing With Symmetry
This edition's Geometer's Corner is part 1 of a two-part series on symmetry and how it is used in chemistry. I write ...