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Aaberg, Shelby; Vitosh, Jason; Smith, Wendy – Mathematics Teacher, 2016
A classic TV commercial once asked, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop?" The narrator claims, "The world may never know" (Tootsie Roll 2012), but an Internet search returns a multitude of answers, some of which include rigorous systematic approaches by academics to address the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematics, Mathematics Education
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May, S. Randolph – American Biology Teacher, 2013
An algorithm has been developed for the rapid determination of single-gene inheritance patterns from genetic pedigrees.
Descriptors: Genetics, Mathematics, Biology, College Science
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Quinn, Terrance J.; Rai, Sanjay – PRIMUS, 2008
The Laplace Transform is an object of fundamental importance in pure and applied mathematics. In addition, it has special pedagogical value in that it can provide a natural and concrete setting for a student to begin thinking about the modern concepts of "operator" and "functional". Most undergraduate textbooks, however, merely define the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Concepts