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Minimodule: Profit in a Mutual Fund

Table 1 is a simulation of an annual statement from a mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks. On 6/25, a divide...

Cards, Codes, and Kangaroos (UMAP)

PREREQUISITES Cyclic groups, generators, modular arithmetic, matrix inverses, modular arithmetic and factoring funct...

Forward and Backward Analyses of Quadratic Equations (UMAP)

ABSTRACT This Module demonstrates the methods of forward and backward analysis to prove the degree of accuracy of th...

UMAP Journal 32.4 Winter 2011 Edition

Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial Where's the Beef? Article Doc, What Are My Chances? BioMath Module Imperfe...

Biomath Imperfect Testing

This-and other BioMath Modules under development-arose from a conference in April, 2005, held at the Center for Discr...

Doc, What Are My Chances?

Introduction When a physician has to deliver bad news to a patient, the bottom-line question is, "Doc, what are my c...

Consortium 101, Fall/Winter 2011

Table of Contents: From the Editor's Desk: Consortium 101 Math at Work: Science Writers Craft Math Today: The Pr...

Networks

The focus of this Pull-Out is on networks - specifically, airline networks and social networks. Analysis of networks ...

Science Writers Craft Tales of Mathematics

Pizza slices, Wiffle balls, disastrous power outages, and the secret life of cicadas: these are just a few of the top...

The Price of Anarchy

America is devoted to capitalism and democracy. However, recent economic events have cast some doubts on the conseque...

A Stable One - Dimensional Table

In the Columbia Teachers College/COMAP Mathematical Modeling Handbook, one of the modules, "Stable Table," concerns t...

Building Bridges Between Teaching and Learning

In this installment of In Search of Research I will discuss research related to assessment. The research that I discu...

Teamwork : A Winning Formula for Math Students

After years of success by students of the Hong Kong International School in the High School Mathematical Contest in M...

UMAP Journal 33.1 Spring 2012 Edition

Table of Contents Publisher's Editorial What's a Math Educator To Do? Articles What's the Rate for a Layaway? A C...

A Course in Financial Mathematics

COMAP announces a free course in financial mathematics, with an emphasis on personal finance, for upper high school a...

Whats the Rate for a Layaway?

Introduction Asign that the U.S. economy is suffering was the return and re-emphasis in 2011 of Christmas "layaway" p...

Forward and Backward Analyses of Quadratic Equations [advanced] (UMAP)

This Module demonstrates the forward and backward analysis to prove in advance the degree of accuracy of the computed...

Minimodule: Converting to a Roth IRA

Background Federal tax rules provide for two particular kinds of personal retirement accounts: • Traditional IRA: I...

The Mathematical Sorting Hat

Introduction The most well-known matching problem in recent popular culture is in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series...

UMAP Journal 33.2 Summer 2012 Edition

Table of Contents Guest Editorial Got DNA? Article The Mathematical Sorting Hat UMAP Modules Determining the S...