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The Relationship Between Attitudes And Achievement In Mathematics Among Fifth Grade Students, Madeleine P. Michelli May 2013

The Relationship Between Attitudes And Achievement In Mathematics Among Fifth Grade Students, Madeleine P. Michelli

Honors Theses

There have been a number of studies investigating how attitudes such as confidence and motivation affect students and their academic achievement. This study was conducted to identify specifically how fifth grade students’ attitudes affect their achievement in mathematics. Gender was studied to determine its effect on attitude and achievement. Furthermore, various types of personality traits were studied including extroversion, conscientiousness, self-control, and intellectual efficiency to determine their effects on achievement. To gather the data a questionnaire including a Likert scale survey and a math test was administered. The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between attitudes toward and …

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Circuits, Perfect Matchings And Paths In Graphs, Wenliang Tang May 2013

Circuits, Perfect Matchings And Paths In Graphs, Wenliang Tang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

We primarily consider the problem of finding a family of circuits to cover a bidgeless graph (mainly on cubic graph) with respect to a given weight function defined on the edge set. The first chapter of this thesis is going to cover all basic concepts and notations will be used and a survey of this topic.;In Chapter two, we shall pay our attention to the Strong Circuit Double Cover Conjecture (SCDC Conjecture). This conjecture was verified for some graphs with special structure. As the complement of two factor in cubic graph, the Berge-Fulkersen Conjecture was introduced right after SCDC Conjecture. …

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On The Isomorphism Question For Complete Pick Multiplier Algebras, Matt Kerr, John E. Mccarthy, Orr Moshe Shalit May 2013

On The Isomorphism Question For Complete Pick Multiplier Algebras, Matt Kerr, John E. Mccarthy, Orr Moshe Shalit

Mathematics Faculty Research

Every multiplier algebra of an irreducible complete Pick kernel arises as the restriction algebra MV={f∣∣V:f∈Md}, where d is some integer or ∞,Md is the multiplier algebra of the Drury-Arveson space H2d , and V is a subvariety of the unit ball. For finite dimensional d it is known that, under mild assumptions, every isomorphism between two such algebras MV and MW is induced by a biholomorphism between W and V. In this paper we consider the converse, and obtain positive results in two directions. The first deals with the case where V is the proper image of a finite Riemann …

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Teacher-Student Relationships And Student Achievement In Grades Six And Seven Math, Julia Britt May 2013

Teacher-Student Relationships And Student Achievement In Grades Six And Seven Math, Julia Britt

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study analyzed the effect of teacher-student relationships on the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) math scores for grades six and seven. Data were studied to determine if an increase in student achievement was related to the often-overlooked interpersonal human relationships between teachers and students. The researcher expected to find a correlation between positive teacher-student relationships and an increase in standardized test scores. The researcher analyzed the data of student scores in rural middle school mathematics' class and teacher characteristics to determine if a relation existed between student achievement and positive teacher-student relationships. The American version of the Questionnaire on …

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Actual Vs. Perceived Value Of Players Of The National Basketball Association, Stephen Righini Apr 2013

Actual Vs. Perceived Value Of Players Of The National Basketball Association, Stephen Righini

Honors Projects in Mathematics

Over the past few decades the media has played an increasingly large role in shaping how player effectiveness in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is perceived. Several factors have caused fans, announcers, and even NBA team management to have unintentional bias toward certain players. This study aims to utilize various formulas created by NBA statisticians, called Player Raters, to identify how efficient each NBA player actually is in comparison to the rest of the league. Data from the past 12 seasons was compiled and six Player Raters were used to place values on every NBA player since the 2000-2001 season. …

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Time Series Data Mining: A Retail Application Using Sas Enterprise Miner, Daniel Hebert Apr 2013

Time Series Data Mining: A Retail Application Using Sas Enterprise Miner, Daniel Hebert

Honors Projects in Mathematics

Modern technologies have allowed for the amassment of data at a rate never encountered before. Organizations are now able to routinely collect and process massive volumes of data. A plethora of regularly collected information can be ordered using an appropriate time interval. The data would thus be developed into a time series. With such data, analytical techniques can be employed to collect information pertaining to historical trends and seasonality. Time series data mining methodology allows users to identify commonalities between sets of time-ordered data. This technique is supported by a variety of algorithms, notably dynamic time warping (DTW). This mathematical …

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The Stock Market Impact Of Bond Rating Changes, Michael Leonard Apr 2013

The Stock Market Impact Of Bond Rating Changes, Michael Leonard

Honors Projects in Mathematics

This paper examines the impact of a downgrade of a company’s credit rating on its stock price in the days surrounding the downgrade. If we consider this downgrade new information, then a negative impact on the company’s stock price would be expected. However, if we assume that rating agencies use information that investors have already accounted for, then there would be no impact. There could also be an impact, at least temporarily, due to the fact that a ratings downgrade is bad news, even if the reasons for the downgrade have already been priced in. To perform this analysis I …

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Who Is The American League Mvp On A Per Dollar Basis?, Patrick Decker Apr 2013

Who Is The American League Mvp On A Per Dollar Basis?, Patrick Decker

Honors Projects in Mathematics

This study will look at the value of MLB players in the American League on a per dollar basis. It will be based on the 2011 statistics and will use a linear regression model to create a value for each player. The value will be based on a variety of statistics based upon position. For all players: age, team wins, and years in the league will be accounted for. For field players: games played, hits, runs, doubles, triples, home runs, runs batted in, walks, strike outs, stolen bases, on base percentage, slugging percentage, fielding percentage and errors will be accounted …

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The Fibonacci Sequence: Its History, Significance, And Manifestations In Nature, Anna Grigas Apr 2013

The Fibonacci Sequence: Its History, Significance, And Manifestations In Nature, Anna Grigas

Senior Honors Theses

The discoveries of Leonard of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci, are revolutionary contributions to the mathematical world. His best-known work is the Fibonacci sequence, in which each new number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. When various operations and manipulations are performed on the numbers of this sequence, beautiful and incredible patterns begin to emerge. The numbers from this sequence are manifested throughout nature in the forms and designs of many plants and animals and have also been reproduced in various manners in art, architecture, and music.

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Logics And The Sorites Paradox, Devin Neubrander Apr 2013

Logics And The Sorites Paradox, Devin Neubrander

Journal of Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research

Renderings of the ancient Sorites paradox in classical first-order logic, Lukasiewicz’s three-valued first-order logic, and a Pavelka-style derivation system for Lukasiewicz’s fuzzy first-order logic are derived. It can be seen that only in the last logic mentioned is the conclusion of the Sorites paradox false while the premises are true thus resolving the paradox.

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Byu Computational Number Theory Research Group, Dr. Paul Jenkins Apr 2013

Byu Computational Number Theory Research Group, Dr. Paul Jenkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The computational number theory group has clearly been a success, with students writing papers, giving conference presentations, winning prestigious national fellowships, and going off to strong PhD programs in mathematics. The weekly seminar has helped students learn presentation skills and learn more mathematics, and has provided a convenient entry point for new students interested in research. It is anticipated that the group will continue into the foreseeable future, and that students will continue to benefit from the allocated resources.

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Upward Bound Math-Science At Umass Boston, Terri Slater Apr 2013

Upward Bound Math-Science At Umass Boston, Terri Slater

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

Upward Bound Math-Science (UBMS) strives to increase the number of low-income and first-generation college bound students who enroll in and complete higher education programs, majoring in mathematics, the sciences, and computer science. UBMS aims to increase the number who pursues advanced study in these fields. UBMS serves students enrolled in the six academies that comprise the Lawrence High School Complex.

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Impacting Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics Through Project-Based Learning: A Multiple Intelligence Based Approach, Andre Wade Apr 2013

Impacting Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics Through Project-Based Learning: A Multiple Intelligence Based Approach, Andre Wade

Annual Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity

Reflecting on my first year of teaching, the number one hindrance to my students’ progress in mathematics seemed to be that my students strongly disliked the subject. Therefore in my second year of teaching at a diverse Catholic school in New England, I completed an action research project that implemented project-based learning (PBL) based on Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory into my mathematics classroom. I wanted to to see if the experience would first, impact student attitudes to make students like math more, and second, if PBL would allow students to see mathematics as applicable to the real world. Therefore, this …

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Quantitative Approaches To Sustainability Seminars, Rachel Levy Apr 2013

Quantitative Approaches To Sustainability Seminars, Rachel Levy

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

How can mathematicians contribute to education of about sustainability? Mathematicians study climate change, energy-related technologies, models of energy availability, production and consumption, and even the political and social aspects of sustainable legislation and practices. However, at this point, few courses on sustainability can be found in math department offerings. When we consider problems that our current and future students will face, energy sustainability certainly seems important. But how many of these ideas reach our classrooms?

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What Can Stem Educators Learn From A Teacher Induction Program? A Study Of Science And Mathematics Teachers’ Reflections On Teaching And Learning, Sheryl Mcglamery, Saundra Shillingstad Apr 2013

What Can Stem Educators Learn From A Teacher Induction Program? A Study Of Science And Mathematics Teachers’ Reflections On Teaching And Learning, Sheryl Mcglamery, Saundra Shillingstad

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Research completed to date confirms that beginning science and mathematics teachers face many challenges, and must master numerous areas of teaching skill in order to demonstrate competence in teaching. Most will face the initial year of practice with little or no access to an induction program targeting their content areas (Luft, 2009). Research further suggests that science and math teachers left without critically needed guidance, a comprehensive induction program could provide, often develop practices that do not allow their students to participate in inquiry activities (e.g. labs, simulations, problem solving, research projects ( Luft, Roehrig, & Patterson, 2003). Instead the …

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Improving Student Achievement Through Feedback, Jennifer L. Mchlachlan Apr 2013

Improving Student Achievement Through Feedback, Jennifer L. Mchlachlan

Mathematics Graduate Theses

This paper reviews the current research that exists on feedback given to students in an educational setting. Questions examined were what characteristics make feedback effective, what are the effects on student achievement if feedback is available to students in a math classroom and does timing of the feedback given play a role in its effectiveness. Results showed that feedback is effective if it is descriptive, including both strengths and weaknesses. Feedback given in small doses throughout the learning process, so as not to overwhelm students, has also proven effective. The research shows that the effect of feedback on student achievement …

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Mathematics Discipline Assessment Report 2012/2013, Mathematics Discipline Apr 2013

Mathematics Discipline Assessment Report 2012/2013, Mathematics Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

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Mathematics Discipline General Education Requirement M/Sr Assessment Report 2013, Mathematics Discipline Apr 2013

Mathematics Discipline General Education Requirement M/Sr Assessment Report 2013, Mathematics Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

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Customer Age As A Predictor Of Contact Volume, Tollan Renner Apr 2013

Customer Age As A Predictor Of Contact Volume, Tollan Renner

Honors Theses and Capstones

A two stage modeling approach for modeling customer age as a predictor of contact volume was conducted using a real-world data set of approximately 2,000,000 contacts from a company call center. Two models were constructed in the first stage, one a straightforward regression and the other a series of regressions. One was selected as better performing and scaled up to predict calls received from calls answered. The second stage of the modeling included a day of the week covariate and performed the best of the models created. This model uses age bins as model effects, of which the youngest age …

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The Mathematics Of Drug Dose Individualization Should Be Built With Random-Effects Linear Models, Francisco J. Diaz, Jose De Leon Apr 2013

The Mathematics Of Drug Dose Individualization Should Be Built With Random-Effects Linear Models, Francisco J. Diaz, Jose De Leon

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Relationship Between Music Participation And Mathematics Achievement In Middle School Students, Joshua Boyd Apr 2013

The Relationship Between Music Participation And Mathematics Achievement In Middle School Students, Joshua Boyd

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A comparative analysis was used to study the results from a descriptive survey of selected middle school students in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Student responses to the survey tool was used to compare multiple variables of music participation and duration of various musical activities, such as singing and performing on instruments, to the mathematics results from Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (Georgia Department of Education, 2011. The results were analyzed with the use of the Pearson r correlation coefficient. The intensity of relationships was assessed with analysis of variance (ANOVA). A final t-test of means was conducted to compare the …

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Translating Mathematics Efficacy, Gabriel T. Matney, Yupadee Panarach, Jack Jackson Mar 2013

Translating Mathematics Efficacy, Gabriel T. Matney, Yupadee Panarach, Jack Jackson

School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

This paper presents our work in translating the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs Instrument (MTEBI) from English to Thai and our resulting initial investigation with 262 Thai pre-service teachers. The MTEBI underwent confirmatory factor analysis indicating two independent scales of Personal Mathematics Teaching Efficacy and Mathematics Teaching Outcome Expectancy (Enochs, Smith, Huinker, 2000). The translation process occurred over several meetings between two US educators and one Thai educator. To check for reliability the instrument was translated into Thai and back translated into English.

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90° To 360°, Holly Paronelli Mar 2013

90° To 360°, Holly Paronelli

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

When I hear STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and Art I think of Math and value. Even though there is value in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) the value as a whole cannot be fully calculated. Art is too indefinite, to vast, too infinite to be calculated, but aspects of STEM can be. Yet even then what we think we know comes down to interpretation, fact is fact for only a while.

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Equations Of Light - The Steam Journal Inaugural Issue, The Cover Art, Chris Brownell Mar 2013

Equations Of Light - The Steam Journal Inaugural Issue, The Cover Art, Chris Brownell

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

This is the background to some of the work, art and thinking that went into the cover art for the inaugural issue.

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Inverse Spectral Problems For Graphs, Dr. Wayne Barrett Mar 2013

Inverse Spectral Problems For Graphs, Dr. Wayne Barrett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This MEG grant made it possible to support several student research activ- ities from Spring 2009 through Winter 2010.

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Creating A Faculty Learning Community To Support Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Among Stem University Faculty, Cher C. Hendricks, Myrna Gantner Mar 2013

Creating A Faculty Learning Community To Support Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning Among Stem University Faculty, Cher C. Hendricks, Myrna Gantner

Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019) (Archived)

In this session, we describe the creation of a Faculty Learning Community for university faculty in science, mathematics, and computer science. These faculty, recipients of mini-grants funded by the USG STEM Initiative, are studying ways to improve their instruction and increase student learning in STEM courses. Through the FLC, they are able to collaborate and support each others’ work.

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Integrating Manipulatives To Improve Fraction Concepts, Rachel Dunn Mar 2013

Integrating Manipulatives To Improve Fraction Concepts, Rachel Dunn

Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019) (Archived)

Many students are overwhelmed by mathematics because the language is too difficult, the teaching strategies are insufficient or they have lost motivation. With a recent emphasis on meeting the Common Core expectations, using manipulatives to eliminate misconceptions in the mathematical classroom has become even more prevalent. I explored the misconceptions that many students struggle with and provided possible methods of eliminating them at all levels for learning. During this investigation, I studied the effect of manipulatives on students’ understanding of fraction concepts and the students’ conceptions of the unit of reference when working with fraction word problems. I learned that …

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Trig-Star, James M. Anderson Mar 2013

Trig-Star, James M. Anderson

Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019) (Archived)

A TRIG-STAR is a mathematics student who has demonstrated in competition that he or she is the most skilled among classmates in the practical application of trigonometry. The competition for the honor is a timed exercise which is the solving of a trigonometry problem that incorporates the use of right triangle formulas, circle formulas, the law of sines, and the law of cosines. The contest helps to promote careers in surveying and mapping to students at the High Schools across the country. The award is sponsored by the National Society of Professional Surveyors and cosponsored locally. State winners also have …

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Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2013

Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 678. Cipher book kept by Benjamin Duncan, of Culpeper County, Virginia and Fayette County, Kentucky. Includes samples of legal forms and letters.

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Preparing K-10 Teachers Through Common Core For Reasoning And Sense Making, Jonathan Bostic, Gabriel T. Matney Feb 2013

Preparing K-10 Teachers Through Common Core For Reasoning And Sense Making, Jonathan Bostic, Gabriel T. Matney

School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

There looms an uncertainty about the Common Core State Standards for mathematics for many teachers. Teachers have indicated that they want professional development (PD) focused on learning about the new standards (Bostic & Matney, in press). This manuscript describes PD programs for K-10 mathematics teachers and offers results from one activity aimed to help teachers unpack the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SFMP). Four major themes arose from interpretive analysis of teachers’ perceptions of the SFMP. These findings suggest (1) the PD supported teachers to make sense of the SFMP and (2) teachers may have misperceptions about the SFMP that require …

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