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1-102C-CancerGrowth-ModelingScenario
This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and study treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are presented including exponential, power law, Bertalanffy, logistic, and...
optimization
cancer
logistic
exponential
prediction
tumor
growth
data fitting
power law
Bertanffy
Gompertz
Modeling Scenario
338
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343
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0
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1-102-CancerTumor-ModelingScenario
This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and optimize treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are studied, including exponential, power law, Bertalanffy, logistic, and...
optimization
logistic
prediction
data fitting
power law
Gompertz
cancer growth
eponential
Bertalanaffy
Modeling Scenario
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313
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0
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1-150-CancerTherapy-ModelingScenario
This activity builds upon elementary models on population growth. In particular, we compare two different treatment models of cancer therapy where in one, surgery happens before therapy and in the other, surgery happens after therapy.
population dynamics
phage therapy
exponential growth
cancer
water treatment
decay
surgery
Modeling Scenario
398
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92
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0
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6-017-OncolyticViruses-ModelingScenario
Students explore oncolytic virotherapy using systems of differential equations and numerical simulations.
cancer
cancer-immune dynamics
immune suppressor drug
oncolytic virus
virotherapy
Modeling Scenario
197
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644
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0
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1-124-WorldPopulation-ModelingScenario
We build models of world population using data to estimate growth rate.
population dynamics
human
growth rate
varying growth rate
Modeling Scenario
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1-038-Ebola-ModelingScenario
Students will use data published by the World Health Organization to model the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. We begin with a simple exponential growth model and move through the modeling process to the logistic growth model.
population dynamics
data analysis
exponential growth
Ebola
logistic
epidemic
Modeling Scenario
234
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246
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0
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1-081-TumorGrowth-ModelingScenario
Students will transform, solve, and interpret a tumor growth scenario using non-linear differential equation models. Two population growth models (Gompertz and logistic) are applied to model tumor growth.
logistic
population
tumor
Gompertz
Modeling Scenario
261
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1-170-CensusModeling-ModelingScenario
Students who have studied models for population are likely to be familiar with the exponential and the logistic population models. The goal here is to explore the role of modeling assumptions in choosing which model to use.
logistic growth
exponential
population
U.S. Census Data
assumption
Google Sheets
Unites States
Guatemala
Modeling Scenario
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118
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0
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1-118-SolowEconomicGrowth-ModelingScenario
Students construct and analyze the celebrated Solow-Swan model of economic growth theory. The project is divided into three sequential parts to teach students to understand, develop, and analyze a simple nonlinear model of economic dynamics.
optimization
economics
steady state
growth
Solow-Swan model
capital
production
labor
Golden Rule of Economic Growth
Modeling Scenario
277
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507
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0
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10-100-InsectOutbreaks-ModelingScenario
We use a system of difference equations that incorporates a temperature-dependent MPB population growth rate to model the outbreak and recovery cycle in mountain pine beetle-infested forests.
ecology
climate change
insect
insect outbreaks
insect outbreak
solitary wave
Modeling Scenario
229
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185
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0
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1-078-MonodGrowthModel-ModelingScenario
Students model growth of bacteria E. coli in a limiting nutrient environment using data from a historical study.
bacteria
nutrient cycles
growth
Monod
consumption
Modeling Scenario
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1-070-FisheryHarvest-ModelingScenario
Students model with logistic growth, harvesting, and diffusion in analyzing ocean fisheries of the Atlantic cod. We help students build models, ever more complex, to capture physical realities. At each stage we ask students to reflect on the model.
logistic
Diffusion
management
harvest
fishery
Modeling Scenario
320
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283
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0
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1-021-FeralCatControl-ModelingScenario
Students act as professional mathematical consultants and write a report analyzing the client's problem. The client company is a fictional organization which advocates for the use of trap-neuter-return (TNR) as a control method for feral cat...
population growth
control
feral cats
population control
neuter
trap-kill
trap-neuter-return
Modeling Scenario
223
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296
downloads
0
comments
1-062-BacteriaGrowth-ModelingScenario
We offer students a simulation experience or data from a simulation and ask them to model the simulation using several approaches: exponential growth fit, difference equation, differential equation, and parameter estimation using EXCEL spreadsheet.
bacteria
exponential
growth
Modeling Scenario
232
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192
downloads
0
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1-066-USCensusModeling-ModelingScenario
The United States Census, conducted every 10 years, gives data on the United States population, that can be modeled with the exponential, logistic, or Gompertz functions.
data
logistic
population
Gompertz
census
goodness of fit
Modeling Scenario
267
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127
downloads
0
comments
1-119-DairyFarming-ModelingScenario
A simple first order population growth model is presented. The challenge is to produce a final differential equation which is the result of the difference or ratio of birth and death rates. This ratio is not immediately intuitive.
population dynamics
dairy
farmers' markets
growth
cow
Modeling Scenario
620
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491
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0
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1-032-WordPropagation-ModelingScenario
This activity is a gentle introduction to modeling via differential equations. The students will learn about exponential growth by modeling the rate at which the word jumbo has propagated through English language texts over time.
Google
exponential growth
language
word problems
etymology
Ngram
propagation
Jumbo
Modeling Scenario
253
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149
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0
comments
5-023-FakingGause-ModelingScenario
We use a fake or toy data set to permit discovery of the parameters in a two population protozoan model used to study paramecium and yeast competition in the 1930's studies of G. F. Gause in the Soviet Union.
competition
logistic
yeast
Gause
paramecium
poplulation
Modeling Scenario
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223
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0
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6-029-TumorGrowth-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario guides a student familiar with single ordinary differential equation (ODE) models towards the development of a more complex system of two ODEs for describing the evolution of tumor growth over time.
Pop_Growth Pilot
logistic
comparment
tumor
synthetic data
sum of squares error
Modeling Scenario
339
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248
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0
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6-040-StruggleForExistence-ModelingScenario
We use historical data from the 1930's in the Soviet Union and model competition between two species of yeast after modeling each species separately and estimate parameters
competition
logistic
carrying capacity
paramecium
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