TABLE OF CONTENTS: WINTER 2010

 (This sample Table of Contents will be updated approximately once a year)

 

When Do Three Planes Intersect in a Point?

Richard F. Maruszewski, Jr.

Mathematics Department

United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, Maryland

 

10 A Technique for Solving a Class of Elementary

Functional Equations

Russell Euler and Jawad Sadek

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Northwest Missouri State University

Maryville, Missouri

 

14 A CLASSROOM NOTE ON: Student Misconceptions Regarding

Probabilistic Independence vs. Mutual Exclusivity

Ananda B. W. Manage and Stephen M. Scariano

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, Texas

 

22 The Mathematics of Poker: Basic Equity Calculations

and Estimates

Mark Farag

Gildart Haase School of Computer Sciences and Engineering

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Teaneck, New Jersey

 

30 ARC LENGTH AT LENGTH

Gregory Mark Boudreaux and M. Scott Wells

Department of Mathematics

University of North Carolina at Asheville

Asheville, North Carolina

 

37 ANTIDERIVATIVES AS INVERSE LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS

David Sprows

Mathematical Sciences Department

Villanova University

Villanova, Pennsylvania

 

41 DISSECTING AND PROPAGATING STIRLING NUMBERS

Hung-ping Tsao

Novato, California

 

48 A CLASSROOM NOTE ON THE VEES OF A FUNCTION

James E. Carpenter and William Gratzer

Department of Mathematics

Iona College

New Rochelle, New York

 

53 Traditional vs. Online Homework in College Algebra

Kimberly Jordan Burch and Yu-Ju Kuo

Mathematics Department

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana, Pennsylvania

 

64 BOOK, SOFTWARE, AND VIDEO REVIEWS

 

What’s Happening in the Mathematical Sciences

 

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s

   Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

 

Wired for War: The robotics revolution

   and conflict in the 21st century

 

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces

   That Shape Our Decisions

 

The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of nobodies

   created the world’s greatest encyclopedia

 

Sona Geometry from Angola:

   Mathematics of an African Tradition

 

The Drunkard’s Walk:

   How Randomness Rules Our Lives

 

The Black Swan:

   The Impact of the Highly Improbable

 

Shodor: A National Resource for Computational

   Science Education

 

Wolfram Alpha

 

MathematicS Software for the Apple iPhone

 

The United States of America Presidential Debate:

   Which mathematical concept should be the next

   president of the United States of Mathematics?

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

·           Mathematics Remediation: what to teach and what is successful

·           Calculus or Precalculus: applications of mathematics in the Biological Sciences