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Suppose you have two forecasts for tomorrow's weather. Forecast A predicts a 60% chance of rain, while Forecast B pr...
Every ten years, the U.S. House of Representatives is reconfigured according to the results of the U.S. Census. This...
Anew wing has been added to the magnet school for Mathematics, Science, and Technology so that the student populatio...
Every driver recognizes the fluctuations in gas prices that happen almost on a weekly basis. In many areas, local ra...
Last spring it was SARS.This winter it's the flu. In the spring it's SARS again and the avian flu.The spread of AIDS...
Suppose that you have a large population you wish to test for a certain characteristic in their blood or urine (for ...
Everyone has at some time been on a multi-lane highway and encountered road construction that required the traffic t...
A map shows the walking paths and dormitories in a section of campus and the approximate distances (in 100 feet) bet...
Every ten years when the census is taken, the federal government rearranges or reapportions the delegates in the Hou...
Iteration and difference equations are beginning to play a significant role in high school mathematics. The Great La...
In the Suez Canal Problem, we consider the real-world, multimillion dollar question of traffic flow through the Suez...
Mathematical modeling plays an important role in the high school mathematics program in Australia. As part of the fi...
You are standing in the rain trying to hail a cab in a large city. While waiting, seven cabs pass by that already ha...
This problem is designed for students in Algebra II and beyond. In order to make a start with this problem, students...
The Michael Jordan Problem is a subtle, but challenging problem for Advanced Algebra or Precalculus students. Every y...
In ordinary elections, each person has a single vote and everyone's vote has the same power. However, in some situat...
The distribution of income in our society is a concept of ongoing interest to economists, politicians, public policy...
This issue's problem comes from Ron Lancaster, of Saint Paul's School in Ontario, Canada. Ron presented this problem ...
This article has students imagine a linear irrigation system to uniformly spray water on a rectangular field where th...
This article presents data that describe some characteristics of airplanes presently flying in the United States. St...
The Super Bowl is a one-game playoff for the championship of the National Football League. In baseball, the World Ser...
This semester we used a simple modeling problem as one of the questions on our Precalculus final exam: "The Fresh B...
Data analysis is an important modeling tool and one whose principles can be developed along with the student's knowl...
In some buildings, all of the elevators can travel to all of the floors, while in others, the elevators are restrict...
The school board has just decided that every mathematics classroom in your school will be able to purchase a compute...
Table of Contents: GUEST EDITORIAL The Art of Modeling ARTICLES Child's Play Mystery Circuit in Mathematics Class ...
This module introduces photovoltaic systems for use off-grid, including analytical and Mathematica construction of s...
Solving systems of equations has applications in a multitude of disciplines. Once such application is in civil engine...
Many people first see the application of probability in childhood. Games involving rolling dice, tossing a coin, or s...
We discuss the introduction, student discovery, and teaching of a system of differential equations that model a circu...
An iterated-function dynamical system is a continuous map F from a metricspace X to itself. The sequence of iterates ...
The Will Rogers phenomenon came to our attention in an article presented for discussion at Surgery Journal Club at th...
Many years ago, I was a guest at a board meeting. The executive officer of the organization was reporting on a surve...
Misnomers in mathematics often stem from early points of view or actual errors in reasoning. The name "geometry," li...
Although much of the work we do in mathematics uses the familiar Cartesian coordinate system, there are other system...
Determining the internal structure of an object without having to cut it, or viewing a section of a body without inte...

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