University of Calgary

Without changing course content, delivery, or assessments, how we make an impact on undergraduate student learning?Dr. Junkins proposes taking advantage of the frequent and varied interactions between students and teaching assistants, by targeting...

Over 2000 student participants from grades 4, 5 and 6 are expected.

Approximately 300 grades 7, 8 and 9 students will participate.

PIMS is involved in judging and contributing $250 and $100 prize money for projects making major use of mathematics.

Thursday May 2, is the Alberta College Mathematics Conference. The main items discussed have to do with mathematical education at all levels in the province of Alberta, and elsewhere. Friday May 3, is the North-South Dialogue, which focuses on...

Calgary Elementary School Mathematics Contest (CESMC) invites students to enter in a pilot-project contest. The contest will primarily be for Grade 4, 5, and 6 students attending elementary school in Calgary and surrounding areas. Grade 6 students...

This is a 90-minute mathematics contest which takes place every spring.The exam is primarily for Grade 9 students. However, all junior high students attending schools in Calgary and surrounding districts are eligible. The exam is written by...

The electrophysiology in a cardiac cell can be modelled as a system of ordinary differential equations. The efficient solution of these systems is important because they must be solved billions of times as sub-problems of organ-level simulations. The...

In many applications, ranging from engineering to economics and applied mathematics, it is often desired to locate an extremum of a functional that captures the performance of the system. Typically, such an extremum has to be found subject to a set...

Humankind's fascination with the mathematical constant pi goes well beyond practical need. In fact, even though over five trillion decimal places of pi has been calculated, a mere four decimal places are sufficient for the design of the world's...