Discover how math influences everyday life. Join our engaging finite math course that connects fun topics like Angry Birds and March Madness!
This course shows you the exciting side of finite math, linking it to popular topics like games and sports, making learning fun and relevant!
Computer fonts, Angry Birds, March Madness, and Google - sound like fun? Indeed, math influences the world around us.
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Computer fonts, Angry Birds, March Madness, and Google — sound like fun? Indeed, finite math is engaging and influences the world around us.
Equations of lines can allow computers to create fonts, store them quite compactly, and render them at essentially any desired resolution. Plotting the graph of a polynomial can affect how you play Angry Birds as you strive to dislodge the pesky pigs. Linear systems model the performance of sports teams and influence which college football teams play in the new year bowl games. You can create your own linear equations to help you create a bracket for March Madness. Finally, probability and simulation lies at the core of the mathematical algorithm that catapulted Google as a leader in search engines.
You benefit from applications of finite math every day. Through this course, you can better understand how you benefit from applications of finite math in your every day life. Along the way, you will likely learn new mathematical ideas, too.
Understand how you can benefit from applications of math in your every day life.
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Tim Chartier is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College. He is a recipient of a national teaching award from the Mathematical Association of America. Published by Princeton University Press, Tim coauthored Numerical Methods: Design, Analysis, and Computer Implementation of Algorithms with Anne Greenbaum. As a researcher, Tim has worked with both Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories...
The examples quoted were good. Rise and Run can be used to explain y-axis and x-axis to middle school graders.
Minuscule but fun glimpse into a few applications of Math in the 'real world'. Would use to motivate some elementary / high school students in their studies.
Many good examples for the usefulness of mathematics in daily life. May be - for deeper understanding and self-control - some additional homework can be added.
Very interesting examples of applications of Mathematics in the real world, and very good teaching skills.
A great intro course. Great to see how the applications of Math concepts in real life.
An article suggested I need this for data science, although I still do not see how, but still I enjoyed it very much.
Thank you Tim.
I came to know lots of application where finite math is used. Really a superb session which I can use in my classes.Thanks a lot
I liked the course, but at one point with matrix's, it was over my head.
very poor. lots of talking with no real information introduced. could be shortened into a single article or single short video.
I wish there were more information presented. Certainly a good instructor.
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Robertas S.
amazing