Revision as of 11:54, 18 March 2013

The Math Squad

Helping students learn with tutorials, practice problems, and other useful math learning tools.

Meet the team

Mentor: Daniel Lee, Junior

• Alec McGail, Junior
• Kilian Cooley, Senior
• Joseph Ruan, Freshman
• Steve Mussmann
• Maliha Hossain

Math Tutorials

• Gradient, Divergence, and Curl in Cylindrical Coordinates, by Kilian Cooley
• The County Problem, by Alec McGail
• Counting Partitions or Subsets, by Steve Mussmann
  • examples of counting problems
  • practice problems
• Bayes' Theorem, by Maliha Hossain
  • Example 1: Quality Control
  • Example 2: False Positive Paradox
  • Example 3: Monty Hall Problem
• About Bases (in linear algebra), by Joseph Ruan
  • Supplementary Explanation of Basis
  • Basis Example Problems specifically with polynomials
  • Change of Basis

Help/Discussions

• How to get started writing a tutorial

Financial Support

The Spring 2013 Math Squad 2013 was supported by an anonymous gift to Project Rhea. If you enjoyed reading these tutorials, please help Rhea "help students learn" with a donation to this project. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.