Rate Paradoxes
The focus of this Pull-Out is on computing rates and average rates. Calculations involving rates can often be counter...
UMAP Journal 34.1 Spring 2013 Edition
Table of Contents Editorial A New Department: Model Reality Check Articles The CWS Model of Alzheimer's Disease Sp...
The CWS Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and the sixth leading cause of death in America. Currently...
Sports Ranking and Twitter
The quickest way to spread information on a social network would be for someone of great "importance" to broadcast it...
Raindrops : Models and Reality
Model Reality Check Its articles will emphasize the oft-neglected modeling step of returning the model to the world ...
Tomography
Tomography: Where Mathematics, Biology, and Technology Come Together To Solve Problems in Many Areas This Module pro...
UMAP Journal 34.2 & 34.3 Summer / Fall 2013 Edition - The 2013 MCM / ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Guest Editorial Developing Interdisciplinary Problem Solving Editor's Note About This Issue MCM ...
The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 1 Number 1, 2006
Table of Contents Editorial Gert Schubring Research Papers Competing Arguments for the Geometry Course: Why Were Am...
The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 2 Number 1, 2007
Table of Contents Research Papers Quarrels of a Marriage of Convenience: On the History of Mathematics Education for...
The International Journal for the History of Mathematics Education Volume 2 Number 2, 2007
Table of Contents Editorial Gert Schubring Research Papers The Numbers One and Zero in Northern European Textbooks ...
Consortium 105, Fall/Winter 2013
Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: Way To Go! Math Today: The Transition from Two Dimensions to Three Dimen...
Table the Discussion
The focus of this Pull-Out is on analyzing survey data using two-way tables. In the first activity, students learn to...
Spirograph Patterns of Star Clusters (UMAP)
We develop and analyze a model describing the spirographic motion of a young star within its birthplace, an embedded ...
Determining the Size and Shape of the Earth (UMAP)
There is a long history of attempts to measure the size and shape of the Earth. During the 17th century, theoretical ...
Calculus and DNA
Introduction I joke that I'm the only one in our Mathematical Biology seminar who was born before we had DNA. A lot ...
Consortium 102, Spring/Summer 2012
Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: News From Comap In Search of Research: Shed New Light on Student Thinki...
Imagining , Improving and Inventing Math In Design
A designer can
mean many
different
things. Fashion
designers, graphic designers, and
interior designers all...
Nobel Prize In Chemistry For Discovery of Quasicrystals : Mathematicians Were There First
Last October, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Israeli chemist Dan Shechtman for his discovery of qua...
Daylight In the Northern Hemisphere
Teacher notes The focus of this Pull-Out is using sinusoidal models to estimate the length of daylight and the sun's...
Shed New Light on Student Thinking with a Representational Lens
Our day-to-day activities are increasingly saturated with static and dynamic representations. These "things" that sta...
STEM: An Integrated Approach
This year we began a two year integrated STEM Foundations course. The course is being taught by myself and David Proc...
HiMCM 2011
Editor's Comments This is our fourteenth HiMCM special issue. Since space does not permit printing all eight Nationa...
UMAP Journal 33.3 Fall 2012 Edition - The 2012 MCM / ICM Contest Edition
Table of Contents Guest Editorial Network Science: What's Math Got to Do with It? Editor's Note About This Issue M...
Consortium 103, Fall/Winter 2012
Table of Contents: From the Publisher's Desk: The Journal of Unwritten Proposals Math at Work: Using Math as a Mi...
Using Math as a Microscope : Modeling Biology
Mathematics and biology
have been intertwined
for some time, but the
synergy between the disciplines is
on th...
Exploring the Relationship Between Teachers and Curricula
In this edition of In Search of Research, I examine the relationship between teachers and curricula. This article beg...
Mission Possible: Curiosity's Flight to Mars
Teacher Notes On November 26, 2011, the Mars Science Laboratory (MLS) spacecraft carrying Curiosity began its trip t...
The Symmedian - Point -
This month's column will focus on another of the special points one can construct in a triangle, the Symmedian Point,...
More Precious Than Gold ?
Gold has been much admired by human societies at different times and in different places. In times of economic turmoi...
Pythagorean Triples -- and More
Pythagorean triples are a fascinating mixture of geometry, algebra, and number theory.
The HiMCM Modeling Competition Problem B 2011 Possible Solution
We have tried for years to explain good procedures and formats for the contest. We have decided that rather than expl...
UMAP Journal 33.4 Winter 2012 Edition
Table of Contents Editorial We're Out of Beef; Pork Now on Sale Article The Farmer Problem MathServe Integer Progr...
A Different Trigonometry Problem
It is perhaps fitting that this issue should discuss a problem that is half a century old. Take your mind back to the...
UMAP / ILAP Modules 2010: Tools for Teaching
Table of Contents Introduction UMAP Modules 802 Turning All Lights Out 803 Gravity-FedWater Delivery Systems 80...
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 7 Num 1 Spring 1993
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic form...
The Elementary Mathematician Vol 7 Num 2 Fall 1993
The Elementary Mathematician, COMAP's award-winning K-6 newsletter is available for the first time in electronic form...