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Teaching Algebra: A Comparison Of Scottish And American Perspectives, Brittany Munro May 2015

Teaching Algebra: A Comparison Of Scottish And American Perspectives, Brittany Munro

Undergraduate Honors Theses

A variety of factors influence what teaching strategies an educator uses. I analyze survey responses from algebra teachers in Scotland and Appalachia America to discover how a teacher's perception of these factors, particularly their view of mathematics itself, determines the pedagogical strategies employed in the classroom.


My Math Gps: Elementary Algebra Guided Problem Solving, Jonathan Cornick, G Michael Guy, Karan Puri Apr 2015

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 Apr 2015

Hurwitz's Theorem, Marianna Malek

Masters Essays

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My Finite Field, Matthew Schroeder Jan 2015

My Finite Field, Matthew Schroeder

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A love poem written in the language of mathematics.


Non-Simplicial Decompositions Of Betti Diagrams Of Complete Intersections, Courtney Gibbons, Jack Jeffries, Sarah Mayes-Tang, Claudiu Raicu, Branden Stone, Bryan White Jan 2015

Non-Simplicial Decompositions Of Betti Diagrams Of Complete Intersections, Courtney Gibbons, Jack Jeffries, Sarah Mayes-Tang, Claudiu Raicu, Branden Stone, Bryan White

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We investigate decompositions of Betti diagrams over a polynomial ring within the framework of Boij-Soederberg theory. That is, given a Betti diagram, we decompose it into pure diagrams. Relaxing the requirement that the degree sequences in such pure diagrams be totally ordered, we are able to define a multiplication law for Betti diagrams that respects the decomposition and allows us to write a simple expression of the decomposition of the Betti diagram of any complete intersection in terms of the degrees of its minimal generators. In the more traditional sense, the decomposition of complete intersections of codimension at most 3 …