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How Does Tutoring To Develop Conceptual Understanding Impact Student Understanding?, Kelsey Cummings May 2015

How Does Tutoring To Develop Conceptual Understanding Impact Student Understanding?, Kelsey Cummings

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Kerrie Pratt Dec 2014

Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Kerrie Pratt

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In the present day, security is essential for sending and receiving information. There are always stories about bank accounts being hacked, credit card numbers being stolen, and secret information being decoded. With the technology of the Internet age growing at a rapid pace, security is essential to keep privileged information safe. In order to ensure this information is kept private, so that information can be sent and received without being hacked and decoded, organizations employ different types of encryption. One of the current encoding systems is Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). ECC uses elliptic curves over finite fields to send information …


A Statistical Analysis Of The Role Of Critical-Thinking Games In College Students' Quantitative Reasoning, Melissa Radevicz Dec 2014

A Statistical Analysis Of The Role Of Critical-Thinking Games In College Students' Quantitative Reasoning, Melissa Radevicz

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Improving college students' quantitative reasoning is crucial to increase STEM-field retention rates. The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), results indicate that "college students don't always get exposure to activities that develop [quantitative reasoning]" (Berrett & Sander, 2013). This study aimed to engage college students in quantitative reasoning through critical-thinking games. Phase 1, conducted in summer 2014 with a university research grant, involved a correlation analysis of the work of 133 college students enrolled in Elementary Statistics I, Chemical Principles II, Elements of Calculus, Pre-Calculus with Trigonometry, Multivariable Calculus, and Differential Equations. Participants held a variety of 39 different majors, …


Dynamics Of Climate Change: Explaining Glacier Retreat Mathematically, Robert Guillette May 2014

Dynamics Of Climate Change: Explaining Glacier Retreat Mathematically, Robert Guillette

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Common Fundamental Domains For Lattices Of The Same Volume, Ashley Erwin Dec 2013

Common Fundamental Domains For Lattices Of The Same Volume, Ashley Erwin

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