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Stephanie A. Blanda – PRIMUS, 2024
This article describes the author's experience designing and implementing an inquiry-based learning (IBL) pedagogical approach to an upper-division undergraduate cryptology course. The author shares the course goals and how the IBL style supports their achievement. The article concludes with sample activities -- in-class exercises that touch on…
Descriptors: Technology, Undergraduate Students, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Gurski, Katharine F. – PRIMUS, 2009
We describe two short group projects for finite mathematics students that incorporate matrices and linear programming into fictional consulting requests presented as a letter to the students. The students are required to use mathematics to decrypt secret messages in one project involving matrix multiplication and inversion. The second project…
Descriptors: Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Instruction, Learner Engagement, Student Projects