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Armstrong Calculus, Michael Tiemeyer, Jared Schlieper

Mathematics Open Textbooks

Authors' Description:

An open-source textbook for calculus.

The text is mostly an adaptation of two other excellent open- source calculus textbooks: Active Calculus by Dr. Matt Boelkins of Grand Valley State University and Drs. Gregory Hartman, Brian Heinold, Troy Siemers, Dimplekumar Chalishajar, and Jennifer Bowen of the Virginia Military Institute and Mount Saint Mary's University. Both of these texts can be found at http://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/.

The authors of this text have combined sections, examples, and exercises from the above two texts along with some of their own content to generate this text. The impetus for the creation of this text …

K-5 Math And Technology Resources, Anthony Scheffler, Shirley Andrews, Nancy Sartin

Education Open Textbooks

This document is a collaborative student work, comprising a directory of resources about mathematics and technology for kindergarten through fifth grade. This resource was created with the support of an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics include teaching and learning theories, problem solving, assessment, equity, technological tools, and measurements.

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Math Senior Seminar: Causality Foundations And Applications, April 9, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Mathematics Discipline Assessment Report 2014/2015, Mathematics Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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My Math Gps: Elementary Algebra Guided Problem Solving, Jonathan Cornick, G Michael Guy, Karan Puri

Open Educational Resources

My Math GPS: Elementary Algebra Guided Problem Solving is a textbook that aligns to the CUNY Elementary Algebra Learning Objectives that are tested on the CUNY Elementary Algebra Final Exam (CEAFE). This book contextualizes arithmetic skills into Elementary Algebra content using a problem-solving pedagogy. Classroom assessments and online homework are available from the authors. In a paper to appear in PRIMUS, this textbook and accompanying pedagogy showed significant increases in learning outcomes.

Hurwitz's Theorem, Marianna Malek

Masters Essays

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An Individual-Based Model Of Chaparral Vegetation Response To Frequent Wildfire, Timothy Lucas, Dayna Mann, Reanna Dona

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

In recent years, the Santa Monica Mountains (SMM) have been plagued by frequent wildfires which threaten the native chaparral species. Nonsprouting chaparral species are completely killed by a fire, but their seeds germinate in response to fire cues. Facultative sprouters both resprout after a wildfire and release seeds that germinate post-fire. This project is based on data collected since 1986 at a biological preserve adjacent to the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University with an average fire return interval of 7.5 years. We present a spatial model that simulates the growth, seed dispersal and resprouting behavior of individual shrubs that compete …

On Pi Day, A Serving Of Why We Need Math, Darren B. Glass

Math Faculty Publications

Today, our Facebook feeds will be peppered with references to Pi Day, a day of celebration that has long been acknowledged by math fans and that Congress recognized in 2009. Every high schooler learns that pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and that its decimal expansion begins 3.14 and goes on infinitely without repeating. [excerpt]

Al-Essa Dissertation On Modules Over Infinite Dimensional Algebras, March 13, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Annual Math Pi Day Is A Held Early This Year On 3.13, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Alum Jack Steiner Wins Einstein Fellowship, Studies Black Holes, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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2015-03 Library Impact Statement For Mth 209 Numeracy For Teachers Ii, Mona Niedbala

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for MTH 209 Numeracy for Teachers II. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty: Mona Niedbala. Requesting faculty: Orlando Merino and James Baglama.

2015-03 Library Impact Statement Mth 209 Numeracy For Teachers Ii, Mona Niedbala

Collection Development Reports and Documents

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for MTH 209 Numeracy for Teachers II. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding faculty librarian: Mona Niedbala. Requesting faculty: Orlando Merino and James Baglama.

Mastery Learning For 9th Grade Mathematics: Can The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Close The Achievement Gap?, Rhonda Jeffries, Hope Reed

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation critiques educational tracking as a default system of grouping that perpetuates inequities particularly for students most likely to experience challenges with academic achievement (Rubin & Noguera, 2004). The research explores the mastery learning method in 9th grade Algebra I CP to improve achievement for students who enter high school without Pre-Algebra skills.

A Valuation Theoretic Characterization Of Recursively Saturated Real Closed Fields, Paola D'Aquino, Salma Kuhlmann, Karen Lange

Faculty Research and Scholarship

We give a valuation theoretic characterization for a real closed field to be recursively saturated. This builds on work in [KKMZ], where the authors gave such a characterization for κ-saturation, for a cardinal . Our result extends the characterization of Harnik and Ressayre [HR] for a divisible ordered abelian group to be recursively saturated.

Expect The Unexpected When Teaching Probability, Karen Koellner, Mary Pittman, Jonathan L. Brendefur

Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Probability has recently made its way into many textbook series and standards documents (NCTM, 2000; NGA, 2010). When students engage in probability problem solving many unexpected situations can arise due to the counterintuitive nature of probability concepts. These situations can be difficult for students and challenging for teachers to analyse during teaching. Recently, as facilitators of a Mathematics Science Partnership grant workshop on probability, we had the opportunity to engage middle school teachers in professional development workshops as well as in their classrooms. In this article, we discuss a rich probability task used with these teachers along with two scenarios …

Mathematical Biology Seminar | Dynamics Of An Intermittent Spraying Model, April 1, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Imagining A Future In Prek: How Professional Identity Shapes Notions Of Early Mathematics, Elizabeth Graue, Anne E. Karabon, Katherine Kresin Delaney, Kristin Whyte, Jiwon Kim, Anita Wager

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This article describes how early childhood teachers engaged in a public preK professional development program. We examine how developing teacher identities mediated engagement with the discourses of developmentally appropriate practice, early mathematics, and funds of knowledge and how they connected present practice to an imagined future. We found that helping them to connect practice experience and new mathematical content knowledge through play allowed them to envision a meaningful place for math with young children.

Erratum To: Limit Computable Integer Parts, Paola D'Aquino, Julia Knight, Karen Lange

Faculty Research and Scholarship

We address an error in the original paper:

P. D’Aquino, J. Knight, and K. Lange, “Limit computable integer parts”, Archive for Mathematical Logic, 50(7-8) (2011), 681-695.

Generic Constructions Of Different Cryptographic Primitives Over Various Public Key Paradigms., Sumit Kumar Pandey Dr.

Doctoral Theses

In this thesis, we study the generic construction of some cryptographic primitives over various public key paradigms like traditional Public Key Cryptosystems and Identity Based Cryptosystems. It can be broadly divided into two categories1. Generic construction of some highly secure cryptographic primitives from less secure cryptographic primitives, and2. Generic construction of some complex cryptographic primitives from basic cryptographic primitives. Mathematical tools provide a way to achieve cryptographic functionality like confidentiality, authentication, data-integrity, non-repudiation etc., but in the case of complex cryptographic functionality like achieving confidentiality and authentication at the same time or confidentiality, authentication and non-repudiation at the same time …

Doctoral Student Presents At Ouosu Ring Theory Seminar, Feb 27, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Film: Counting From Infinity, Feb. 23, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Some Conjugacy Problems In Algebraic Groups., Anirban Bose Dr.

Doctoral Theses

In this thesis we address two problems related to the study of algebraic groups and Lie groups. The first one deals with computation of an invariant called the genus number of a connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field and that of a compact connected Lie group. The second problem is about characterisation of real elements in exceptional groups of type F4 defined over an arbitrary field. Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field or a compact connected Lie group. Let ZG(x) denote the centralizer of x ∈ G. Define the genus …

Klein Seeks Undergrad Apprentice For Navajo Nation Research, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Mathematical Biology Seminar Features Gregory Moses, Feb 18, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Math Biology Seminar | Studying Disease Transmission On Networks, Feb 11, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Math Dissertation: Units And Leavitt Path Algebras, March 12, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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A Mathematician's Villanelle, Gizem Karaali

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

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The Relationship Between Middle School Mathematics Teacher Background And Efficacy During The Transition To Common Core, Stacy Plemons

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this correlation study was to investigate the relationship between teacher background training and teaching efficacy for instructing mathematics in the middle grades during the transition to Common Core State Standards. Participants included 37 mathematics teachers in grades six, seven, and eight in the CORE East TN region. Surveys containing the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Instrument (MTEBI) were electronically administered to determine the dependent variables: self-efficacy (personal teaching efficacy) and outcome expectancy for teaching mathematics. Additional questions measured the independent variable, teacher background training, defined by number of college mathematics course hours taken, number TNCore mathematics training days …

My Finite Field, Matthew Schroeder

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A love poem written in the language of mathematics.