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GAIMME Time: Assessing Student Modeling Work

Think back to when you first realized that you enjoyed mathematicsĶ For many of us, that enjoyment came from the pur...

Deal or No Deal? Expected Value, Utility Theory, and the Role of the Banker

This Pull-Out consists of three activities. The context for Activity 1 is a school's fundraising carnival. Students c...

Drawings of Number Sequences

This research problem involves translating between geometric drawings and sequences of numbers associated with these ...

Psychology, Applications to Decision Making

What subjects are sciences? A list often begins with chemistry and physics and a subject that is sometimes taken as p...

A General Education Course From Primary Historical Sources

Introduction General education courses at colleges and universities in the United States have been a requirement for...

A Mathematical Investigation Motivated By a Question About Baseball

Anatural setting for the mathematical exploration that follows is baseball, but this does not imply that we are creat...

UMAP Journal 38.4 Winter 2017 Edition

Table of Contents Editorial Calculus Is Irrelevant Articles Aircraft Longitudinal Oscillations You Win Some and Yo...

Disaster Relief Modeling (ILAP)

Contents 1. Setting the Scene 2. Discrete Dynamical System Model of Effective Response 3. The PEARL Index and Equitab...

You Win Some and You Lose Some: Scoring a Two-Team Cross-Country Race

Introduction and Warmup On a cool autumn day in October, 1980, a marginally-talented high school freshman got his fi...

Aircraft Longitudinal Oscillations

The Fundamentals of Flight Four fundamental forces affect the flight of an aircraft: • lift, • weight, • thrust, and...

Angle Bisectors : An Algebraic Approach

This article will use this form and some of the vector algebra that is taught in an upper level pre-calculus course t...

UMAP Journal 37.2 Summer 2016 Edition - The 2016 ICM Contest Edition

Table of Contents Guest Editorial Cyber Modeling: Full of Challenges ICM Modeling Forum Results of the 2016 Interdi...

UMAP Journal 37.3 Fall 2016 Edition - The 2016 MCM Contest Edition

Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial Announcing the Doug Faires Award MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 2016 Mat...

Consortium 111, Fall/Winter 2016

Table of Contents: From the Publisher's Desk: GAIMME Geometer's Corner: Exploring Tetrahedra Part 1 Math Today: V...

Modeling with Fractals

Mathematics prerequisites and discussion: Students should be familiar with basic concepts from geometry such as regul...

Visual Patterns Everywhere

Mathematics is sometimes defined as the science of studying patterns. Symmetrical repeating patterns are all around u...

Exploring Tetrahedra Part 1

This edition's Geometers Corner has two objectives. First, it will develop a set of exercises that make use of many ...

Introducing: GAIMME Time

Welcome to GAIMME Time! Earlier this year, COMAP and SIAM jointly released the GAIMME Report: Guidelines for Assess...

I Mathematician II Further Introspections on the Mathematical Life

Twenty-one of the world's most distinguished mathematicians and educators write about their personal experiences with...

UMAP Journal 37.4 Winter 2016 Edition

Table of Contents Editorial Coding for All? Articles The Utility of Recreational Mathematics Modeling-First Approa...

The Utility of Recreational Mathematics

Prelude and Vademecum This article is an amplification with illustrations of a write-up of my talk at the University...

Modeling-First Approach to Teaching Differential Equations

Abstract We cite broad support for using modeling in mathematics coursework in undergraduate studies and address the...

SIMIODE Modeling Scenario : Fish Mixing (Teacher Version)

Abstract: This activity gives students a chance to build a differential or difference equation model similar to stand...

Consortium 112, Spring/Summer 2017

Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: New Faces GAIMME: Introducing: Transforming Textbook Word Problems... ...

UMAP Journal 38.1 Spring 2017 Edition

Table of Contents Editorial Many Thanks and Welcome Articles A Modified Massey Method to Rank Players on the PGA To...

Modern Algebra : Time for Change

Introduction So what is modern about Modern Algebra anyhow? It is an old subject, to be sure, and calling it "modern...

A Modified Massey Method to Rank Players on the PGA Tour

Abstract We modify the Massey rating method so as to rate and rank the players in the Professional Golf Association ...

An Epidemiology Model of Devil Facial Tumor Disease in Tasmanian Devils

Abstract Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) is a transmissible parasitic cancer that, since the first reported case i...

Long-Term vs. Short-Term Strategy in the Game of Monopoly

Abstract We use a computer model to analyze and compare a variety of strategic paradigms in the game of Monopoly®, w...

Is Cooling Exponential?

Introduction We often model temperature change as an exponential process: According to Newton's law of cooling, the ...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 5 Number 1, 2010

Table of Contents Research Papers The Italian School of Algebraic Geometry and Mathematics Teaching: Methods, Teache...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 5 Number 2, 2010

Table of Contents Research Papers The Introduction of "Modern Mathematics" in Secondary Education in Spain (1954-197...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 6 Number 1, 2011

Table of Contents Research Papers The Process of Redesigning the Geometry Curriculum: The Case of the 1 Mathematical...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 6 Number 2, 2011

Table of Contents Research Papers The First Egyptian Modern Mathematics Textbook Mathematics Education in Scotland:...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 7 Number 1, 2012

Table of Contents Research Papers History of Mathematics Education in the Islamic Countries in the Middle Ages On I...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 7 Number 2, 2012

Table of Contents Research Papers Nineteenth Century Traditional Arabic Geometry Textbooks Alden Partridge and Prac...

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