Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations & Opportunities with Differential Equations — SIMIODE

QUICK Way to Find SIMIODE Teaching Resources

You can look here for Modeling Scenarios and Technique Narratives which are peer reviewed and classroom ready for differential equations modeling activities and topics, OR download our Resource Guide or Table of Contents, written in the fashion of a traditional differential equations text's Table of Contents, with short descriptions and links. Check out our Starter Kit for sure-fire, never-fail Modeling Scenarios for teaching.

We now offer our revolutionary modeling-first Second Edition textbook, Differential Equations: A Toolbox for Modeling the World, by Kurt Bryan,  in HTML format with interactive SAGE code FREE to purchasers of our First Edition pdf. Please purchase your First Edition pdf copy and then use these instructions to obtain your FREE Second Edition HTML copy. See sample Chapter One, Appendices, and Bibliography.

Happening Now

• Director Brian Winkel is giving a talk, Modeling Makes Mathematics Fun and Real - For Real!,  at the Fall 2024 FYMSiC (First-Year Math & Stats in Canada) Online Teaching Meetup, 24 September 2024. Here are the slides for the talk. 

• SCUDEM IX 2024 Registration is open now through 19 October 2024. Join in and bring students to a wonderfully rich opportunity to build their own models and share their video for international judging and rich feedback.

• Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN USA, posted comments about the joy her students had in learning to model logistic growth with m&m pieces using the  1-017-DiseaseSpread-ModelingScenario. Check it out and please leave Comments on your use of SIMIODE materials for others to see and learn. 

• We invite you to join us in Seattle at Joint Mathematics Meetings, 8 - 11 January 2025, and to consider giving a talk in our AMS-SIMIODE Special Session on Modeling Matters in Teaching and Learning Differential Equations. Submit abstract.

• Three FREE SIMIODE Webinars. Slides and Videos. 9 April 2024 - Using WikiModel to Rapidly Create, Simulate, Fit and Share Mathematical Models - VIDEO;  17 April 2024 - Using Insightmaker to Enhance Understanding in a First ODE Course - VIDEO; and 1 May 2024 -  A Practical Guide for Incorporating Ethical Reasoning into Mathematics Courses through Modeling Problems (Complete Resources and Materials) - VIDEO.

• Slides and videos from SIMIODE EXPO 2024, an online international conference with over 65 presenters, are now available.

• We are pleased to announce the Special SIMIODE Issue on Using Modelling to Motivate and Teach Differential Equations of International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 396 page rich issue of 24 articles. Check for it at IJMEST Journal site. This journal is FREE to Mathematical Association of America members.

• SCUDEM VIII 2023 Outstanding Awards Team Videos are available for viewing at SIMIODE YouTube Channel.

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Who We Are

SIMIODE is a 501(c)3 non-profit,  open community of teachers and learners using modeling first to teach and learn differential equations in an original way.

What We Do

SIMIODE is a Community of Practice. SIMIODE activities include:

• Peer reviewed, classroom ready Modeling Scenarios and Technique Narratives for differential equations modeling activities and topics, Resource Guide or Table of Contents.
• A yearly, international EXPO for people interested in using modeling to motivate, teach, and learn differential equations,
• A textbook — Differential Equations: A Toolbox for Modeling the World by author Kurt Bryan, and
• SCUDEM — a 3-student team modeling challenge.