Cops, robber, and pre-calculus skills
| dc.contributor.author | Halliday, Felicia | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | MacGillivray, Gary | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Butterfield, Jane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-03T00:11:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-03T00:11:10Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2019 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-01-02 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science M.Sc. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is partitioned into three parts: improving pre-calculus skills of students in an introductory calculus course, the game of Cops and Robber on oriented graphs, and the generalized game of Cops and Robber. In the first part, we study the effect of review modules on student performance using an Educational Action Research framework. In addition to the study, we report what instructors at various institutions say they were doing to improve pre- calculus skills. In the second part, we introduce the game of Cops and Robber on oriented graphs using a two-part article that will appear in the problem-solving journal for high school students and undergraduates, Crux Mathematicorum. Next, we present a survey of previous results and provide family of counterexamples to a conjecture that was recently shown to be false. In the last part of the thesis, we consider general Cops and Robber games. We give a survey of previous results and conclude with a new characterization of graphs in which the Cops have a winning strategy. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11439 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | Cops, robber, and pre-calculus skills | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |