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Ledder, G.; Homp, M. – PRIMUS, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has made mathematical epidemiology a topic of critical importance, providing mathematics educators with an unparalleled opportunity. This opportunity is accompanied by a challenge: how do mathematics educators, some of whom have little personal experience with mathematical modeling, teach mathematical epidemiology to their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mathematics Instruction, Epidemiology
Livingston, Colleen – PRIMUS, 2019
This paper describes an activity using a dog treat ball to introduce systems of first-order differential equations. Beads are placed in the first of two hemispherical chambers of a food-dispensing dog toy. As the ball is turned, students track the number of beads in the first chamber, the second chamber, and the exterior of the ball. Students…
Descriptors: Calculus, Equations (Mathematics), Spreadsheets, Toys
Jungck, John R. – PRIMUS, 2022
Finite Mathematics has become an enormously rich and productive area of contemporary mathematical biology. Fortunately, educators have developed educational modules based upon many of the models that have used Finite Mathematics in mathematical biology research. A sufficient variety of computer modules that employ graph theory (phylogenetic trees,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Models, Learning Modules
Gordon, Sheldon P. – PRIMUS, 2015
This article introduces the notion of the quartile-quartile line as an alternative to the regression line and the median-median line to produce a linear model based on a set of data. It is based on using the first and third quartiles of a set of (x, y) data. Dynamic spreadsheets are used as exploratory tools to compare the different approaches and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Mathematical Concepts
Webber, Robert P. – PRIMUS, 2012
Spreadsheets lend themselves naturally to recursive computations, since a formula can be defined as a function of one of more preceding cells. A hypothesized closed form for the "n"th term of a recursive sequence can be tested easily by using a spreadsheet to compute a large number of the terms. Similarly, a conjecture about the limit of a series…
Descriptors: Validity, Mathematical Logic, Spreadsheets, Computation
Pfaff, Thomas J. – PRIMUS, 2011
We give an overview of why it is important to include sustainability in mathematics classes and provide specific examples of how to do this for a calculus class. We illustrate that when students use "Excel" to fit curves to real data, fundamentally important questions about sustainability become calculus questions about those curves. (Contains 5…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Sustainable Development, Mathematical Concepts
Dewar, Jacqueline; Larson, Suzanne; Zachariah, Thomas – PRIMUS, 2011
We describe our approach to incorporating a civic engagement component into a quantitative literacy (QL) course and the resulting gains in student learning, confidence, and awareness of local civic issues. We revised the existing QL course by including semester-long group projects involving local community issues that students could investigate…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Algebra, Citizenship Education, Group Activities
Gordon, Sheldon P.; Gordon, Florence S. – PRIMUS, 2009
The authors describe a collection of dynamic interactive simulations for teaching and learning most of the important ideas and techniques of introductory statistics and probability. The modules cover such topics as randomness, simulations of probability experiments such as coin flipping, dice rolling and general binomial experiments, a simulation…
Descriptors: Intervals, Hypothesis Testing, Statistics, Probability
Abramovich, Sergei; Sugden, Stephen J. – PRIMUS, 2008
Solving indeterminate algebraic equations in integers is a classic topic in the mathematics curricula across grades. At the undergraduate level, the study of solutions of non-linear equations of this kind can be motivated by the use of technology. This article shows how the unity of geometric contextualization and spreadsheet-based amplification…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Geometric Concepts, Equations (Mathematics), Algebra
Myers, Joseph; Trubatch, David; Winkel, Brian – PRIMUS, 2008
We discuss the introduction and teaching of partial differential equations (heat and wave equations) via modeling physical phenomena, using a new approach that encompasses constructing difference equations and implementing these in a spreadsheet, numerically solving the partial differential equations using the numerical differential equation…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Calculus, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Models
Fox, William P.; Fox, James B. – PRIMUS, 2003
Recently we were presented with an interesting twist to the sliding ladder problem viewed in the related rates section of most calculus textbooks. Our problem concerning a sliding ladder that eventually hits the ground. At first, those attempting this problem fell into the calculus trap using only related rates. Previous work for this problem…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Calculus, College Mathematics, Problem Solving
Barton, Jeffrey; Feil, David; Lartigue, David; Mullins, Bernadette – PRIMUS, 2004
We describe two classes of sequences that give rise to accessible problems for undergraduate research. These problems may be understood with virtually no prerequisites and are well suited for computer-aided investigation. The first sequence is a variation of one introduced by Stephen Wolfram in connection with his study of cellular automata. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Student Research