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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Math in the Middle Institute Partnership

Empowering Middle-Level Mathematics Teachers

MAT Exam Expository Papers

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts in Teaching with a Specialization in the Teaching of Middle Level Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Stacey Aldag

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Birthday Problem

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Julane Amen, Shauna Green, Anne Schmidt

Farey Sequences, Ford Circles and Pick's Theorem

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Delise Andrews

Conic Sections

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Darla Berks

Symmetry of Scale

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Myrna Bornemeier

Just What Do You "Mean"?

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Tricia Buchanan

Testing Naval Artillery and Other Things That Blow Up

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Virginia Clark

The Vigenére Cipher

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Dean Davis

The Game of Nim

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Gary Eisenhauer

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier

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Bryan Engelker

Area and Perimeter of Polygons

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Diana French

Perfect Numbers

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Jessica Fricke

Extending a Finite Sequence

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Doug Glasshoff

Taylor Polynomials

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Thomas J. Harrington

Evaluating Polynomials

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Kristin Johnson

Heron, Brahmagupta, Pythagoras, and the Law of Cosines

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Julie Kreizel

Comparing Infinite Sets

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Chad Larson

Ethnomathematics

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Stacie Lefler

Fractals and the Chaos Game

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Tiffany Lothrop

The Square Root of i

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Carmen Melliger

Spherical Geometry

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Linda Moore

How to Graphically Interpret the Complex Roots of a Quadratic Equation

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Shawn Mousel

The Exponential Function

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Jim Pfeiffer

Triangulation

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Kyle Poore

Taxicab Geometry

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Daniel Schaben

Experimentation with Two Formulas by Ramanujan

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Josh Severin

The Number Zero

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Christina Sheets

Hyperbolic Geometry

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Sandi Snyder

Fractals and the Collage Theorem

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Vicki Sorensen

The Art Gallery Question

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Cindy Steinkruger

The Volume of a Platonic Solid

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Shana Streeks

Simple Statements, Large Numbers

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Diane Swartzlander

Pythagorean Triples

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Lindsey Thompson

Perimeter and Area of Inscribed and Circumscribed Polygons

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Tina Thompson

The Four Numbers Game

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Janet Timoney

Distance, Rate, Time and Beyond

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Greg Vanderbeek

Order of Operations and RPN Expository Paper

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