### Now Spring 2022

Current teaching
MATH 103 – The Nature of Mathematics
MATH 232 – Calculus with Functions II
MATH 297 – Undergraduate Research in Knot Theory

Current collaborations
Spatial graphs, Celtic knots, karst modeling, wave function collapse design

New this fall!
Haynes Scholars Residential Learning Community

Stuff I’m making
Catalan snaps, volume nets, knots and graphs, knitting machine punch cards, secret project involving squares

### Recent Recent publications and events

##### 2021 AMS Calendar

Perko Morph is Mr. March!

### Recent Publications Recent peer-reviewed published articles

##### Modeling Dynamical Systems for 3D Printing

Stephen Lucas, Evelyn Sander, and Laura Taalman
Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 67, No.11, p. 1692-1705, 2020

##### Wallpaper Patterns for Lattice Designs

Laura Taalman and Carolyn Yackel
Proceedings of Bridges Aalto, p. 223-230, 2020

##### Optimizing Morton’s Tritangentless Knots for Rolling

Abigail Eget, Stephen Lucas, and Laura Taalman
Proceedings of Bridges Aalto, p. 367-370, 2020

##### Opportunity costs in the game of best choice

Madeline Crews, Brant Jones, Kaitlyn Myers, Laura Taalman, Michael Urbanski, and Breeann Wilson
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 26, Issue #1, 2019

### Selected Courses Classes taught at James Madison University

##### Calculus with Functions I

MATH 231
*now online!*
STEM Calculus I with Precalculus

##### Discrete Mathematics and Introduction to Proof

MATH 245
Bridge course for the major

### HACKTASTIC A blog about design, math, and failure

#### REMOTE LEARNING DRAFT POST

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Ended up getting LearnPress (which is free): https://wordpress.org/plugins/learnpress/ Via the theme Eduma (which is not free; about $70): https://themeforest.net/item/education-wordpress-theme-education-wp/14058034, and started with one of the Demos And this gradebook (about$20): https://thimpress.com/product/gradebook-add-on-for-learnpress/ Set up Zoom integration as described in part 5 of this: https://docspress.thimpress.com/eduma/#zoom-integration Set up MathJax for doing LaTeX:…

#### 3D Printed Conformations of Spatial Graphs

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#### sample blanket

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could even use different size squares and pieces and rectangles maybe   crochet seams of knitted samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9MkWJ6aveA

#### Space-Filling Terrazzo – Getting Started

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This is the first in a series of posts about a space-filling riff on Tinna’s Terrazzo Afghan. Our design is going to start off looking like one of Tinna’s Terazzo squares, but it’s going to continue as a larger and larger square, with lots of different but “space-filling” patterns along the way. It won’t be ONE space-filling curve (sorry, math geeks), but it will fill space efficiently as we build the pattern out from the center.

#### Electoral State Stackers

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I haven’t been stress-printing before the election, YOU have. Well, maybe you will after this post, at least. Fire up your 3D printer(s) because there are dozens of things you need to print before Tuesday, including each of the 50 states (and DC, which has 3 electoral votes), sized to each have approximately the same area, with heights determined by number of electoral votes.

### STRUCTURE Mathematical surface design for everyone

REINHARDT - Repeating stars and squares based on a Reinhardt tessellation of irregular pentagons
GRADIENT - Concentric squares with a continuous gradient illusion created by just six color values

### Taking Sudoku Seriously The math behind the world’s most popular pencil puzzle

This book uses the popular Sudoku craze as the starting point for a fun-filled introduction to higher mathematics

### Taalman/Kohn Calculus Flexible, modular textbooks for any classroom

A streamlined, structured exposition of calculus that combines the clarity of classic textbooks with a modern perspective and uncluttered design