Undergraduate MME participants register for MAT192 for 3 units of credit (P/NP). (Students who don't have upperclass status register for MAT92.) The course is a weekly seminar, meeting at 12:10-1:00 on Fridays.

Undergraduates will be broken down into groups of 2-3 people. Each group will be assigned a Graduate Student Instructional Advisor with whom they will meet as a group once a week outside of class. This meeting will be used to work on and discuss course projects and upcoming Saturday High School Lessons.

Each group and their Graduate Student Instructional Advisor will be responsible for creating and presenting one of the Saturday High School Lessons. Over the quarter, students will complete 8 Projects. Two of these projects will be on topics presented by Guest Faculty, Dr. Guy. These UCD researchers will join our class bringing a problem from their field for you to investigate. During one week, our class will study mathematical preliminaries and other ideas necessary to understand our guest's problem, and during the following week you will discuss your math modeling and problem-solving ideas with the guest.

Students will also give a short group presentation of their work at the Math Department's Graduate Student-Run Seminar. (This is excellent practice for giving a talk or a poster presentation at one of the many venues for undergraduate research that you will find out about during the course.)

On Saturday mornings during the fall, high school students come to the UC Davis campus to learn about math modeling. MAT192 students will sign up to mentor these bright, inquisitive students on 4 Saturdays during the fall and will have the chance to help design and teach the high school lessons! The math modeling topics we discuss with the high school students will echo those we've been studying in MAT192. Teaching these new ideas to the younger students is a sure-fire way to check your own understanding!