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The Optimal Can: An Uncanny Approach

Abstract We examine a novel variation of the classic cylindrical can optimization problem encountered in almost every...

A Stable Cup of Coffee

Abstract We investigate the optimal amount of liquid to place in a container, such as a soda can or cup of coffee, so...

When Will a Soda Can Balance?

Introduction Have you seen the party trick where a soft drink can balances on its edge? The bottom edge of a standard...

Consortium 110, Spring/Summer 2016

Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: Candles in the Winds Geometer's Corner: Angle Bisectors Henry's Notes,...

Raking Leaves

In the fall, raking leaves is a major chore in many households. Leaves must be gotten off the ground and, typically, ...

Biostatistics in Practice: Discovering Links Between Eating Behaviors and Overweight Children

In this Pull Out students use statistics to analyze a subset of data from the Infant Growth Study with the goal of di...

Modeling with Sequences

Teacher notes In Activity 1, students use two types of sequences to model population growth over time. The assumptio...

UMAP Journal 36.2 Summer 2015 Edition - The 2015 ICM Contest Edition

Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial On His Shoulders ICM Modeling Forum Results of the 2015 Interdisciplinary C...

Policy Modeling

Modeling is equally important in social science as it is in physical science. Introduction We recently heard a coll...

UMAP Journal 36.3 Fall 2015 Edition - The 2015 MCM Contest Edition

Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial The Bedford Falls Effect MCM Modeling Forum Results of the 2015 Mathematica...

Big Data and Statistics Problems

Introduction In addition to the traditional choices of one problem each oriented toward continuous mathematics and d...

Consortium 109, Fall/Winter 2015

Table of Contents: From the Publisher's Desk: GAIMME Geometer's Corner: Circles and Parabolas in 3-Space Math at W...

Modeling with Graphs

This Pull Out consists of three activities that focus on Graph Theory. Activity 1 introduces students to a new type o...

Software Engineering: From Machine Learning To Social Sharing

Mathematics and technology have always developed in tandem, but the pace of technology innovation has never b...

Circles and Parabolas in 3-Space

This edition's column had its genesis with a question and a discovery The question: How do you find the equations fo...

UMAP Journal 36.4 Winter 2015 Edition

Table of Contents Guest Editorial Embracing Data Science Articles An Analyzable (Though SeldomWinnable) Card Solita...

An Analyzable(Though Seldom Winnable) Card Solitaire

Introduction On the whole, standard card solitaire games notoriously resist the calculation of their winning probabil...

Actuarial Present Value

Traditional actuarial functions in the world of insurance include pricing of an insurance product (life, health, or c...

Mathematics - In the Park?

Introduction I have often advocated that a mission of mathematicians is to help people to "see, seek, and speak" mat...

Climate Modeling in Differential Equations (UMAP)

This Module develops some simple energy balance models for the temperature of the Earth, through exercises, a sample ...

Adrift in a Sea of Numbers

Lynn Steen (1941-2015), a long-time champion ofCOMAPand TheUMAP Journal, died in June. In the prospectus for this Jou...

Embracing Data Science

Statistics is running the risk of appearing irrelevant to today's undergraduate students. Today's undergraduate stude...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 3 Number 1, 2008

Table of Contents Research Papers Probability Topics Addressed in U.S. Middle-Grades Textbooks, 1957-2004 From The ...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 3 Number 2, 2008

Table of Contents Editorial Research Papers The Origins and the Early History of ICMI David Eugene Smith and the F...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 4 Number 1, 2009

Table of Contents Editorial Note Guest Editorial Renaud d'Enfert and Angel Ruiz Research Papers The School as "Lab...

The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 4 Number 2, 2009

Table of Contents Research Papers The Notion of Magnitude in Teaching: The "New Elements" of Arnauld and His Inherit...