Exploring Discrete Mathematics with American Football

Tricia Muldoon Brown, Eric B. Kahn

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Abstract

Abstract: This paper presents an extended project that offers, through American football, an application of concepts from enumerative combinatorics and an introduction to proofs course. The questions in this paper and subsequent details concerning equivalence relations and counting techniques can be used to reinforce these new topics to students in such a transition-to-proofs-type course or to offer an application of known theoretical mathematics to students with more advanced understanding in the major.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)421-438
Number of pages18
JournalPRIMUS
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 28 2015

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Mathematics
  • Education

Keywords

  • Abstract algebra
  • discrete mathematics
  • enumerative combinatorics
  • football

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