Bridging The Math-Art Divide
Math has been
integral to art
throughout
history, from
the Ancient
Egyptians to Leonardo daVinci.
Today, ma…
Student Understanding of Reasoning and Proof and Its Connections to Curriculum
Welcome to In Search of Research. In this column I will review research in mathematics education and discuss the implic…
Assessing Assessment
In previous articles, we examined work being done by education practitioners and researchers to define the process of m…
Substituting Complex Numbers In The Binomial Formula: What In The World For?
Substituting Complex Numbers In The Binomial Formula: What In The World For?
Computational Complexity
From the earliest days of computing, the development of efficient methods of calculation has played a key role in expan…
Mystery of the Orient
A good mystery often begins with its main characters innocently pursuing a commonplace activity. In this instance, one…
The Standup Conic Presents: The Parabola and Applications
Are you bored with the parabola? Does the ellipse make you apathetic? Does the hyperbola give you that tired, run-down…
Testing for Homogeneity Using Minimum Spanning Trees
The problem of assuring homogeneity in the exposed surfaces of materials that are manufactured from particle composites…
UMAP Journal 31.4 Winter 2010 Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial The National Standards Train: You Need to Buy Your Ticket UMAP Modules Gravit…
Gravity-Fed Water Delivery Systems (UMAP)
This Module introduces calculus students to elementary fluid mechanics applied to the modeling of simple gravity-fed wa…
Undecidability in Fuzzy Logic
At an elementary level accessible to a general audience of collegestudents, three-valuedtruth tablesprovidean introduct…
UMAP Journal 32.1 Spring 2011 Edition
Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial The Journal of Unfunded Proposals: An Annotated Table Of Contents UMAP Module…
Biomath Evolution by Substitution
This-and other BioMath Modules under development-arose from a conference in April, 2005, held at the Center for Discret…
Applications of Cubic Equations (UMAP)
This module demonstrates the methods known as forward analysis and backward analysis to prove in advance the degree of…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 11 Num 3 - 4 Fall / Winter 1997
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 1 Num 1 Fall 1987
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 2 Num 1 Winter 1988
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 2 Num 2 Spring 1988
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 2 Num 3 Fall 1988
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 2 Num 4 Winter 1988
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 3 Num 1 Spring 1989
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic format…
Toward a Clean and Lively Calculus
A recent publication, Toward a Lean and Lively Calculus [Douglas 19871, contains reports and articles on the teaching o…
A.R. Meijer
The problem of the title, that of flipping a coin by telephone, was proposed and solved by Manuel Blum [19821. One cann…
Simulated Annealing
Many problems in engineering, planning, and manufacturing can be modeled as that of minimizing or maximizing a cost fun…
More Angles on the Lifeguard Problem
The lifeguard problem is a reincarnation of one of the first problems to which calculus was applied; and, as with many…
More Missouri Breaks
As part of one of our mathematics courses, we decoded the Missouri driver's license code, using Gallian 119921 as a gui…
Multigrid Methods
Most physical phenomena, whether in the area of fluid dynamics, electricity, magnetism, heat flow and other domains can…
Neural Networks
The power and usefulness of neural networks is demonstrated by the success of the TNA (Thermal Neutron Analysis) projec…
Wavelets: A New Tool in Applied Mathematics
The subject of wavelets has been around for less than ten years. Yet it seems to be popping up everywhere. The major re…
Hamming Distance and Its Discovery
There are many ways of describing the discovery of error-correcting codes, and I will place the emphasis on the mathema…
Digital Signatures
When you receive a letter that apparently was sent by your acquaintance John Smith, how do you know that he is indeed t…
Limitless Calculus via Ethereal Numbers
Newton and Leibniz were independent originators of the calculus in the last half of the seventeenth century, and both t…
Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Combinatorial Games
Combinatorial game theory was axiomatized by Conway [I9761 and was developed by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy [19821. It h…
UMAP Journal 31.3 Fall 2010 Edition
Table of Contents Guest Editorial The Bio-Math Connection Articles Curve Interpolation and Coding Theory Cutoffs and…
Curve Interpolation and Coding Theory
Whether it is downloading files from the Internet, having conversations between cell phones, or sending information fro…