Student Work
This collection contains works by undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Events from 2026
AI in Insurance Industry: Using Machine Learning to Improve Insurance Risk Predictions, Simbarashe Ngonyamo
Effect of Biaxial Strain on Electronic Properties of Fe2CoGe: First-Principles Study, Gabby Buhrow and Gavin Reyes
Events from 2025
Artificial Intelligence's Potential in Assessments of Math Learning, Casandra Tounjian Poster Presentation
Building Countably Many Disjoint Stat Sets in ω1, Jordan Mills Open Access Poster Presentation
Duality of Quadrilaterals via Quaternions, Parker Sjomeling Open Access Poster Presentation
Enhancing Math Inclusion for Students With Disabilities in General Education Classrooms, Kimberly Walljasperq, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Tuning the Magnetic Properties of CrI3 using Ni Thin Film Deposition, Connor Cunningham Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Submissions from 2024
An Analysis of Artificial Intelligence's Potential in Assessments of Math Learning, Casandra Tounjian, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
An Analysis of Crash Factors on Total Property Damage, Erica Peters, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Connecting the Dots: Analysis of Teachers' Questions during Dot and Number Talks, Raider Taylor, Megan Carlson, Kimberly Conner, Candace Joswick, and Brandon McMillan Poster Presentation
Exploration of Affine Functions, Katelyn Jo Stirling, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematical Conjectures in Grades Three through Five Relating to Fractions and Decimals, Lauren Elizabeth Bork, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Proportional Reasoning: Understanding Student Thinking with Direct and Inverse Proportions, Emma Marshall, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2023
Admittance Processes in Gifted Education and Their Influence on Equity, Rachel Wohlgemuth, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Connecting the Dots: Analysis of Teachers' Questions During Dot and Number Talks, Megan Carlson, Raider Taylor, Kimberly Conner, Candace Joswick, and Brandon McMillan Poster Presentation (UNI Access Only)
Geometric Curves from p-Circles, Isaiah Dempsey and Bill Wood Open Access Poster Presentation
Submissions from 2022
Assessing and meeting the mental health needs of student athletes - A case study of the University of Northern Iowa, Samantha Bennett, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Exploring high school students' perceptions post a social justice mathematics lesson, Emily Terrones Moore, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Left-Separation of ω1, Lukas Stuelke and Adrienne Stanley Ph.D. Open Access Poster Presentation
Mindfulness in Education, Max Tensen
Rendezvous Numbers of Compact and Connected Spaces, Kevin Demler and Bill Wood Ph.D. Open Access Poster Presentation
Teaching Social Justice Issues Through Mathematics Curriculum, Lydia L. Butters Open Access Poster Presentation
Testing the efficiency of the NFL betting market, Ryan Earl Oswald, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Weather Effects on Mental Health, Brady Beyer
Submissions from 2021
Including English language learners in Algebra One instruction, Callie Irene Neighbor, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Using sentiment analysis to find the public's opinion on Iowa's three state schools, Alexa Ryan Bullock, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Visibility of Lattice Points, Sydney Hauser and Adrienne Stanley Ph.D. Poster Presentation (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
An exploration in Ramsey theory, Jake Weber, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
How to create a radically inclusive math classroom with regards to gender and sexual orientation, Alexa DeVore, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Life and death: Quantifying the risk of heart disease with machine learning, Jack Scott Glienke, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Maximizing Participation in an Online Mathematics Course, Lauren Falck and Douglas Shaw Open Access Presentation
On the zeta Kirchhoff index of several graph transformations, Danny Cheuk, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Events from 2019
Factors Impacting Students' Mathematical Performance and Beliefs, Lauren Falck, Alexis Steinlage, Elizabeth Hughes, and Olof Steinthorsdottir Open Access Poster Presentation
The effect of math tracking on students' growth mindsets, Amber Lawrence, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2018
An analysis of equity-linked insurance pricing, Clara C. Ortgies, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Exploration of counter examples of balanced sets, Jake Allen Weber, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Money matters: An analysis of campaign finance in United States House of Representatives elections, 2010-2016, Destiny Leitz, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Resale value of individual sets of Magic the Gathering, Nichole Bolas Mlodzik, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A survey of butterfly diagrams for knots and links, Mark Ronnenberg, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Investigating the role of the written curriculum on lesson planning for first-year elementary mathematics teachers, Anna Kron, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Properties of left-separated spaces and their unions, Eric Scheidecker, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Secondary mathematics educators and coaches' role in providing motivation, Reggie Schulte, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The programmatic manipulation of planar diagram codes to find an upper bound on the bridge index of prime knots, Genevieve R. Johnson, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Events from 2016
Bridge Numbers: A Knotty Journey, Julie Kirkpatrick and Tracy Wulfekuhle Poster Presentation (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Equitable discourse in middle school mathematics classrooms: With emphasis on girls and the mathematically gifted, Merci F. Day, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Lights out game with cellular automation, Naoya Uematsu, Department of Mathematics, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Proportional reasoning in middle level mathematics textbooks, Rebecca Holzrichter, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Some convergence properties of Minkowski functionals given by polytopes, Jesse Moeller, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Statistical modeling of earthquake damage, Allison Nicole Waters, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Tessellations: An artistic and mathematical look at the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher, Emily E. Bachmeier, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The effects of argumentation on student motivation in mathematics, Julie Kirkpatrick, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2015
A new system of first-order predicate logic based on Wittgenstein's single operation N, Benjamin Castle, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Solving Lights Out on parity graphs, Derek Hofland, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Submissions from 2014
Culturally relevant pedagogy: secondary mathematics in an urban classroom, Julia Glissmann North, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
D-spaces in infinite products of ordinals, Duncan Wright, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
In defense of defense: a statistical look at roster construction, coaching strategy, and team defense in the National Basketball Association, Luke Ronald Peterson, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Manipulatives in secondary mathematics, Elizabeth Rae Johnson, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The gender behind the math in the 21st century, Paige Hageman, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Tribal and commercial casinos in the midwestern United States: effect on county unemployment, Amber Irlmeier, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2013
Developing crochet patterns for surfaces of non-constant curvature, Katherine Lea Pearce, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Einstein metrics on piecewise-linear three-spheres, Kyle Pitzen, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Equivalences of dessins d'enfants, Rachel M. Volkert, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2011
A Statistical Analysis of the Factors Affecting University Endowments, Lisa M. Stoecken, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Individual Batting Factors Influencing a Team's Probability of Winning, David Matthew Rygh, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Variables Affecting Crime Rate, Jaime Zeigler, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2009
Ambigrams: The Art and the Math, Callie Kronlage, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Cedar Rapids Flood of 2008: Manmade or Statistical Anomaly?, Beth Kolsrud, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Managing Risk in Life Insurance With Your Genetic Information: The Issues, the Options, and the Speed of Progress, Michelle Gogerty, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2008
A Fundamental Region on Two Copies of the Hyperbolic Plane, Alyssa Jesse Soenksen, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Integrating music into math classroom: Implications for educators, Rebecca Thayer, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Risk Classification and Ratemaking in Insurance, Erin Conrad, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
UNI elementary education majors' beliefs toward mathematics education, David Frederick Wirtz, Department of Mathematics, Honors Program Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Submissions from 2007
Crippling America, Health Care Fraud Incentives, Colby Goetsch, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematics and Spanish: A Comparative Approach of Teaching Methods, Emily R. Borcherding, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Mathematics Education: An International Perspective, Lisa Roose, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Submissions from 2006
A Brief Study of Real-Valued Continuous Functions on Various Spaces, Dusty Ross, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Asbestos Litigation and Indemnification, Paul Grammens, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
Insurance: A Consumer's Perspective, Elizabeth Ann Nanke, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Honors Program Thesis
The Range of Angles in the Euler-Gergonne-Soddy Triangle, David J. Gisch, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Repeating Decimals and Cyclotomic Polynomials, David H. Chapman, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Submissions from 1999
Math wars: The politics of curriculum, Raymond Johnson Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Modeling of catastrophic events with applications to insurance, Mary Noga Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1998
The effects of a student-centered thinking strategies approach to learning basic facts, Amber L. Grotjohn Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Fuzzy logic: An analysis of logical connectives and their characterizations, John F. Hamman, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis 1998 Award
Incorporating the TI-92 into a high school classroom, Heather Golliher Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1996
Selected problems involving the probability of ruin for an insurance company, Andrew J. Schafer Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Technology in the mathematics classroom: "Glorified toys" or educational tools?, Jason W. Perry Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1995
Multiquadric interpolation: Surface fitting in three-dimensional space, Michelle Ruse Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
A partial "squeezing theorem" for a particular class of many-valued logics, Stephen Michael Walk, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis 1995 Award
Linear codes and error-correction, Karen Brown Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1993
Mathematics anxiety: A study of its causes as proclaimed by educational research, Jennifer Rupp Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1992
Introduction to fractal geometry: Definition, concept, and applications, Mary Bond Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
K dimension continued fractions and k dimension golden ratios, Tascha Gwyn Yoder Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Submissions from 1991
Implementing a neural network in the Smalltalk graphical environment, John M. Damgaard Open Access Presidential Scholars Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
A Diagnostic-Prescriptive Procedure for Teaching Adolescent Dyscalculics, Constance Ellingson Byrnes, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Worksheets and Manipulative Games Used in Seventh-Grade Mathematics as Methods of Drill on the Four Basic Operations With Whole Numbers and Fractions, Richard Lee Capps, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
A Description and an Analysis of the Results of Using Cadet Teaching as a Method of Improving the Multiplication Proficiency of a Selected Sample of Fourth and Seventh Grade Students, Richard Mark Anderson, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
A Study of the Use of Laboratory Methods to Promote Student Discovery in Tenth-Grade Geometry, Russell Franklin Hein, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
A Comparison of Modern and Traditional Approaches to Problem-Solving in Two Sections of Ninth-Grade General Mathematics, Mary Edith Crist, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
Linear Programming in High School Mathematics, Vernon Earl Cotter, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
A Comparative Study of Two Approaches to the Teaching of Area in the Junior High School, Margaret Patricia Green, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Applications of Eighth Grade Mathematics to the Ninth Grade General Shop Program in Iowa, Robert Vern Echelbarger, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
A Proposal for Emphasizing Modern Mathematics in Elementary Algebra, Betty Sayre Grubb, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
A Study in Predicting Success in Algebra, Leslie Milton Graham, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
A Comparative Investigation of the Use and Non-Use of Manipulative Devices in Teaching Seventh Grade Mathematics, George E. Immerzeel, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
The Preparation of a Suggested Unit Using Applications From Physics in the Teaching of Trigonometric Functions in High School Trigonometry, Oliver Warren Eason, Department of Mathematics, Open Access Thesis
