2025 MAKO Presentations
“Bernoulli Numbers”
Dr. Songfeng Zheng, Missouri State University
“Where Cars Meet Combinatorics: A Presentation on Parking Functions”
Isaiah Holgerson, Evangel University
“The Impact of Prior Mathematics Experience on College Students' Mathematical Beliefs
and Anxiety”
Ethan Tritch, University of Central Arkansas
“Fostering Mathematical Creativity in Teachers: An Examination of Problem Posing and
its Impact on Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality”
Jewel Madison Fetterly, University of Central Arkansas
“VC-Dimension of Subsets of Hamming Graphs”
Chris Housholder, Missouri State University
“Spanning Trees in Chair-Free Graphs”
Serenity Biggs, University of Arkansas
“Alternating Sequences of Sum and Difference Dominated Sets”
Yorick Herrmann, University of California, Irvine, Merlin Phillips, University of
Minnesota, and Connor Hill, Shenandoah University
“Analyzing Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease Risks Among Diverse Populations with Type
2 Diabetes Using Compartmental Modeling and the NIH All of Us Database”
Jackson Deal, Southwest Baptist University
“A Reversed -Shaped Bifurcation Curve for a Class of Superlinear Boundary-Value Problems”
Loren Baker, University of Central Missouri
“An Alternative Proof of the Newton-Girard Formula for Non-Commutative Symmetric Polynomials”
Tim Fay, William Jewell College
“Mastermind”
Erin Hancock, Evangel University
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