Consortium 91, Fall/Winter 2006
Table of Contents: FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESK Call to Arms GEOMETER'S CORNER A Hands-On Approach to Finding Platon…
UMAP Journal 27.4 Winter 2006 Edition
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL Calculus Is Crap SPECIAL SECTION ON MATHSERVE Cooling the Macon Volunteer Clinic Serv…
UMAP / ILAP Modules 2006: Tools for Teaching
Table of Contents: UMAP Modules 791 Immunological and Epidemiological HIV/AIDS Modeling 793 The Scheduling of Traffi…
Consortium 92, Spring/Summer 2007
Table of Contents: FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Changing of the Guard IN SEARCH OF RESEARCH A Feature, A Field and A Fr…
Want a Workout? Burning Calories
In this article, we will investigate issues related to health and weight. Many people misunderstand weight gain and los…
Racing to War
Mathematical models of the natural and physical world provide significant input into helping us understand our environm…
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Around the world, people enjoy caffeine in both food and drink. Caffeine is an alkaloid compound that comes from plant…
Secret Codes
The activities in this Pull-Out explore several methods of coding messages. Activity 1 opens with an easy code to cra…
Genetics and a Mathematically Indefensible Historical Moment
Mathematical modeling is an important tool in both governmental policy decision-making and in industrial planning. In…
Geometry and Perspective Drawing
The activities in this Pull-Out explore the geometry of perspective drawing that is used to create depth in a picture…
Modeling is a Two-Way Street
Mathematics is a powerful tool for helping us to understand the world. In the following discussion, we will investigat…
Taking the Long View of Life
Consider a married couple planning the financial aspects of their retirement. What is the retirement value of one spou…
Fairness and Apportionment II
The activities in this Pull-Out explore the Hill method of apportionment, the method presently used to apportion the U…
Fishing for Food and Profit
Future generations will not be able to enjoy Earth's renewable resources if we mismanage them now. Using quadratic fun…
Fairness and Apportionment I
The activities in this Pull-Out deal with apportionment and the fairness/ unfairness associated with an apportionment…
Mathematics and Uphill/Downhill Shooting
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 yds…
Imperfect Testing
The activities in this Pull-Out deal with conditional probability. Activity 1 introduces conditional probability and…
Fishing and the Future
How well we manage the world's marine resources impacts the quality of life for much of the human race. Seafood provid…
Thrills and Spills In Motion II
The activities in this Pull-Out are a continuation of the topic of motion in Consortium 75. These activities focus on…
Iteration and Chaotic Dynamics
Have you ever played with your calculator by applying one of the functions over and over again? On some calculators th…
Thrills and Spills In Motion I
The activities in this Pull-Out serve both as an introduction to motion detector equipment and the study of motion. St…
Hazards of Heavy Metal
Human society with its desire for technological advancement and persisting lack of concern for consequences has produc…
Secret Codes
The activities in this Pull-Out section explore the role of mathematics in designing a coded message.
Does T.M. Need a Roth?
In the letter shown to the left from the 17 year-old T. M., he discusses putting $2000 into an IRA. The Taxpayer Relie…
Predictions
The activities in this issue's Pull-Out explore the question, "How can you identify and describe a relationship betwee…
A Study of the Genetics of Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease caused by a "defective" allele (or form) of a certain gene. Each person has two…
UMAP Journal 25.1 Spring 2004 Edition
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL "Party Like It's 1999!" SPECIAL MATHSERVE SECTION MathServe Lives On! Creating Weekly…
Using Fractals to Motivate Linear Algebra (UMAP)
We introduce a project that encourages the reader to "adopt" a fractal and then find out "everything" about it. We lead…
Optimal Play of the Dice Game Pig (UMAP)
The object of the jeopardy dice game Pig is to be the first player to reach 100 points. Each player's turn consists of…
UMAP Journal 25.2 Summer 2004 Edition
Table of Contents: EDITORIAL Building a Modeling Community: MATHmodels.org SPECIAL SECTION ON THE ICM Results of…
Consortium 87, Fall/Winter 2004
Table of Contents: FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESK Roots HiMCM NOTES Mathematical Modeling in High School HISTORICAL…
UMAP Journal 25.3 Fall 2004 Edition - The 2004 MCM Contest Edition
Table of Contents: PUBLISHER'S EDITORIAL The Good Fight SPECIAL SECTION ON THE MCM Results of the 2004 Mathematical…
Cryptology and the Birthday Paradox
The birthday paradox is well known and appears in many popular books on mathematics. In the form in which it is most co…
Finite Mathematics as Environmental Modeling
This paper surveys the landscape of courses outside the track leading to calculus, describes an offering of a Finite Ma…