Activities

"Hot Shot"

airdate:
May 19, 2006

episode #: 224-37

• Sinks & Sources

  topic: Directed Graphs

• A Stab in the Dark

  topic: Histograms, Relative Frequency and Probability

• Parabolic Food Flight

  topic: Parabolas and Curve Fitting

• Clearing All Obstacles

  topic: Parabolic Equations

"Undercurrents"

airdate:
May 12, 2006

episode #: 223-36

• Where's the Source?

  topic: Vector Fields

• Numb3rs of the I Ching

  topic: Counting, Symbolism and Encoding

• Narrowing the Search

  topic: Length of an N-Dimensional Vector

• Riding the Waves

  topic: Vector Fields

"Backscatter"

airdate:
May 5, 2006

episode #: 222-35

• What Are You Implying?

  topic: Explicit and Implicit Functions

• Chains and Pyramids

  topic: Geometric Progressions and Exponential Growth

• Creating Codes

  topic: Codes

• The Graph Tells The Story

  topic: Interpreting Graphs

"Rampage"

airdate:
April 28, 2006

episode #: 221-34

• Circling Around

  topic: Venn Diagrams, Intersecting Circles and Intersecting Spheres

• Tesseract

  topic: Tesseracts and Hypercubes

• I...It...Itera...Iteration

  topic: Iterative Processes

"Guns and Roses"

airdate:
April 21, 2006

episode #: 220-33

• Seeing in the Dark

  topic: Using Sound Waves to Measure Distance

• Bat Sonar

  topic: Echolocation in Bats

• Settling the Score

  topic: Multiple-Scale Scoring Systems

• DNA Sequence Alignment

  topic: Biomathematics - DNA Sequence Alignment

"All's Fair"

airdate:
March 31, 2006

episode #: 218-31

• Sudoku Puzzles

  topic: Sudoku Puzzles

• Logging Witnesses

  topic: Probability and Logistic Regression

• Guess My Type or Lose

  topic: Game Theory With Unknown Types

"Mind Games"

airdate:
March 10, 2006

episode #: 217-30

• Right or Wrong

  topic: The Binomial Theorem

• Walkabout

  topic: Random Walks & pi

• Thumbs Up!

  topic: Using Simluations to Understand Variability

"Protest"

airdate:
March 3, 2006

episode #: 216-29

• A Party of Six

  topic: Graph Theory and Ramsey Numbers

• A Recursion Excursion

  topic: Sequences Defined Recursively

"Soft Target"

airdate:
February 24, 2006 (original airdate: November 4, 2005)

episode #: 206-19

• Percolation Theory

  topic: Percolation Theory

"Convergence"

airdate:
February 17, 2006 (original airdate: November 11, 2005)

episode #: 207-20

• Two-Dimensional Trilateration

  topic: Locating GPS Receivers

"Obsession"

airdate:
February 10, 2006
(original airdate: October 7, 2005)

episode #: 204-17

• The Art Gallery Problem

  topic: Securing Art Galleries

"The Running Man"

airdate:
February 3, 2006

episode #: 215-28

• An Irrational Approach to Music

  topic: Simple Continued Fractions

• We're Number 1!

  topic: Benford's Law

• The Eyes Have It

  topic: Probability

"Harvest"

airdate:
January 27, 2006

episode #: 214-27

• Markov Chain Links

  topic: Markov Chains

• Getting In Focus

  topic: Ellipses

• Waxing Elliptical

  topic: Ellipses

• Meltdown

  topic: Direct Variation With the Square

"Double Down"

airdate:
January 13, 2006

episode #: 213-26

• Perfect Out-Shuffles

  topic: Card Shuffling

• A Bit of Basic Blackjack

  topic: Probability Involving Sampling Without Replacement and Dependent Trials

• How Much Can They Win?

  topic: Time Series Analysis

• That's So Random

  topic: Randomization

"The O.G."

airdate:
January 6, 2006

episode #: 212-25

• Is it Really Rare?

  topic: Poisson Distribution

• It's All Connected

  topic: Social Network Analysis

"Scorched"

airdate:
December 16, 2005

episode #: 211-24

• Making "Fireprints"

  topic: Modeling the Spread of Fire

• The Power of Powers

  topic: Counting Techniques

• Mapping Fireprints

  topic: 3-Dimensional Graphing

"Bones of Contention"

airdate:
December 9, 2005

episode #: 210-23

• How to Get a Date

  topic: Exponential Decay

• Location! Location! Location!

  topic: Voronoi Diagrams

"Toxin"

airdate:
December 9, 2005

episode #: 209-22

• Message of the Bottle

  topic: Code Breaking

• How Hard Can It Be?

  topic: Entropy

• The Koenigsberg Bridge Problem

  topic: Graph Theory

• Slippery Paths

  topic: Steiner Paths and Trees

"In Plain Sight"

airdate:
November 18, 2005

episode #: 208-21

• Follow the Flock

  topic: Introduction to Flock Behavior

• Now You See It, Now You Don't

  topic: Steganography

• Error Correction

  topic: Matrices: Error Correction Codes

"Convergence"

airdate:
November 11, 2005

episode #: 207-20

• 1+1=2

  topic: A Little Group Theory

• The Dating Game

  topic: Algorithms for Calculating Dates

• Air Hockey

  topic: Matrices: Meaning and Operations

• Where is the Bullet?

  topic: Projectile Motion

"Soft Target"

airdate:
November 4, 2005

episode #: 206-19

• Is This Seat Taken?

  topic: The Math of Arranging Objects

• Escape

  topic: Percolation Theory

• Are You Sure?

  topic: Mathematical Prediction

"Assassin"

airdate:
October 21, 2005

episode #: 201

• The Escape Game

  topic: Game Theory

• Code Crackers

  topic: Simple Codes

• Experimenting With Paper Airplanes

  topic: Experimenting With Paper Airplanes

"Calculated Risk"

airdate:
October 14, 2005

episode #: 205-18

• How Reliable is the Test?

  topic: Conditional Probability Trees

• A Mathematics Sampler

  topic: Conditional Probability: Sampling Without Replacement

• Financial Futures

  topic: Compounding Interest

"Obsession"

airdate:
October 7, 2005

episode #: 204-17

• Telling Time With the Sun

  topic: Uses of Trigonometry

• Guarding the Goods I

  topic: The Art Gallery Problem

• Guarding the Goods II

  topic: Securing Art Galleries

"Better or Worse"

airdate:
September 30, 2005

episode #: 203

• Creating "Random" Numbers

  topic: Pseudo-Random Numbers

• Shifting Cells

  topic: Finding Patterns Using Cellular Automata

"Judgement Day"

airdate:
September 23, 2005

episode #: 202

• Filtering Suspects

  topic: Conditional Probability Leading to Bayesian Filtering

• How Tall is the Criminal?

  topic: Scatterplots