A Course in Financial Mathematics

COMAP announces a free course in financial mathematics, with an emphasis on personal finance, for upper high school and undergraduate students. Teachers can click at

http://www.comap.com/FloydVest/

to request access to the materials below.

Teachers can make their own selections from the materials available, which include:

Pull-Out Sections from the HiMAP Consortium newsletter, which have exposition, exercises, sidebar notes, references, answers, teacher notes; they are usually six to eight pages long.

• Articles published in various journals, including The UMAP Journal.
• UMAPModules and ILAP Modules, which list prerequisites, andUMAP Minimodules; all of these feature exercises with solutions.
• As-yet-unpublished papers. Materialsmayhave exercises, answers, teacher notes, sidebar notes, and/or references. The collection of more than 70 lessons is dynamic, as materials are revised while others are added.

Ateacher can simply download and print a PDF, make copies, distribute them to students, and teach the lesson.