PCMI Undergraduate Faculty Program (UFP 2004)

PCMI Undergraduate Faculty Program

July 11-31, 2004
at the Park City Mathematics Institute

Thursday night PCMI Pizza and Problem-Solving Set #1.
Thursday night PCMI Pizza and Problem-Solving Set #2.
Problem-Solving Seminar References and Resources, prepared by my colleague Andrew Bernoff, who co-coaches the Putnam Seminar with me at Harvey Mudd College.
Some sample problem sets from our Putnam Classic and Putnam TNG Seminars.

Sample outreach lectures and course modules developed by participants:

This is Like That: Counting Using Catalan Numbers,
(Jayawant, Schaal, Seibert, Sidman, Woods),
Module for a Discrete Math or Combinatorics Course.
Integer Lattices in a Linear Algebra Course
(Jayawant, Schaal, Seibert, Sidman, Woods),
Module for a Linear Algebra course
Convex Combinations
(Haas, Zullo, Halleck, Roby, Treloar),
Module for a Linear Algebra course
Tropical Problems for an Abstract Algebra Course
(Haas, Halleck, Roby, Treloar, Zullo),
Module for an Abstract Algebra Course
Tropical Arithmetic in Mathematics Courses for Liberal Arts Students or Elementary Education Majors
(Allgaier, Perkinson, Stewart, Thurber)
Module for Liberal Arts Students or Elementary Education Majors
Homology of Simplicial Complexes
(Allgaier, Perkinson, Stewart, Thurber),
Module for a Linear Algebra Course
Discovering Euler's Rule for Polytopes
(Jayawant, Schaal, Seibert, Sidman, Woods),
Outreach Lecture for Elementary School Students
Tilings, a hands-on outreach presentation
(Haas, Zullo, Halleck, Roby, Treloar),
Outreach Lecture for High School Students
Outreach Lecture: Polytopes
(Allgaier, Perkinson, Stewart, Thurber),
Outreach Lecture for High School Students