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Mathematics is a powerful tool for helping us to understand the world. In the following discussion, we will investig...
Consider a married couple planning the financial aspects of their retirement. What is the retirement value of one sp...
The activities in this Pull-Out explore the Hill method of apportionment, the method presently used to apportion the...
Future generations will not be able to enjoy Earth's renewable resources if we mismanage them now. Using quadratic f...
The activities in this Pull-Out deal with apportionment and the fairness/ unfairness associated with an apportionmen...
Eighteen-year-old Mike is about to shoot at the top of a cliff. At the other end of the line of sight, roughly 250 y...
The activities in this Pull-Out deal with conditional probability. Activity 1 introduces conditional probability an...
How well we manage the world's marine resources impacts the quality of life for much of the human race. Seafood prov...
The activities in this Pull-Out are a continuation of the topic of motion in Consortium 75. These activities focus o...
Have you ever played with your calculator by applying one of the functions over and over again? On some calculators ...
The activities in this Pull-Out serve both as an introduction to motion detector equipment and the study of motion. ...
Human society with its desire for technological advancement and persisting lack of concern for consequences has prod...
The activities in this Pull-Out section explore the role of mathematics in designing a coded message.
In the letter shown to the left from the 17 year-old T. M., he discusses putting $2000 into an IRA. The Taxpayer Rel...
The activities in this issue's Pull-Out explore the question, "How can you identify and describe a relationship betw...
Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease caused by a "defective" allele (or form) of a certain gene. Each person has t...
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL "Party Like It's 1999!" SPECIAL MATHSERVE SECTION MathServe Lives On! Creating Week...
We introduce a project that encourages the reader to "adopt" a fractal and then find out "everything" about it. We le...
The object of the jeopardy dice game Pig is to be the first player to reach 100 points. Each player's turn consists o...
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL Building a Modeling Community: MATHmodels.org SPECIAL SECTION ON THE ICM Results o...
Table of Contents: FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESK Roots HiMCM NOTES Mathematical Modeling in High School HISTORICA...
Table of Contents: PUBLISHER'S EDITORIAL The Good Fight SPECIAL SECTION ON THE MCM Results of the 2004 Mathematic...
The birthday paradox is well known and appears in many popular books on mathematics. In the form in which it is most ...
This paper surveys the landscape of courses outside the track leading to calculus, describes an offering of a Finite ...
Ah, the conic sections! Everyone knows (beware of statements that begin with the phrase Everyone knows . . . !) that...
We use a single example to explain: *the Likelihood Principle *Bayesian statistics, and *why classical statistics can...
In the springs of 1999 and 2001, I incorporated a series of Mathematica projects or "labs" into a vector analysis cou...
When a colleague from the Biology Dept. who knew I was interested in flowers introduced me to C.L. Porter's Taxonomy ...
Owing to the enormous popularity of competitive running, there has long been widespread interest in finding methods t...
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL The Mathematics of Democracy ARTICLES Optimal Growth and Productivity in Organizati...
We examine the interaction of growth and productivity. We put forth a very simple model to enable managers to underst...
We discuss the dynamics of ski skating, in particular, the optimization problem: Maximize average speed for a given p...
We consider the important problem of optimizing a wind turbine's power coefficient the percentage of available wind p...
This module applies ordinary differential equations to both immunological and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS mod...
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL The Next 25 Years Editor's Note: Now in Color at a Computer Near You MATHSERVE Opti...
The "Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball" uses a simple function of a team's runs scored and runs allowed to predict the ...

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