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Actually, What Is an Actuary?

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Oudshoorn, Susan; Finkelstein, Gary – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1991

The actuarial profession is described to provide secondary school mathematics teachers insights into how actuaries use mathematics in solving real life problems. Examples are provided involving compound interest, the probability of dying, and inflation with computer modeling. (MDH)

Descriptors: Career Awareness, Careers, Computer Oriented Programs, Inflation (Economics)

Generating Classroom Examples of Matrices.

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Schaefer, Paul – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1989

Provides a program listing in True BASIC which constructs several kinds of matrices: (1) matrices with integral entries that have inverses that have integral entries; (2) matrices with integral entries that have inverses that are rational numbers with reasonable denominators; and (3) matrices with integral entries and prescribed integer…

Descriptors: Algebra, College Mathematics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software