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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
242
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101
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0
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1-067-ModelingWithSigmoidCurves-ModelingScenario
The assignment considers two well-known models of population growth, Verhulst-Pearl and Gompertz models, for which qualitative and quantitative analyses are provided. The graphs of the corresponding functions have a sigmoidal or S-shape.
logistic
Gompertz
sigmoid
Verhulst-Pearl
Modeling Scenario
227
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184
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0
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1-125-DiceyPopulation-ModelingScenario
We offer students an opportunity to generate data for their team on a death and immigration model using 12 and 20 sided dice and then pass on the data to another student team for analysis with a model they built. The key is to recover the...
simulation
immigration
death
dice
Modeling Scenario
212
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707
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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
277
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291
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0
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6-006-ZombieGameHvZ-ModelingScenario
Invented in 2005, Humans vs. Zombies, or HvZ, is a game of tag, predominantly played at US college campuses. In this activity, students use systems of non-linear differential equations to model the HvZ game.
zombies
SIR models
Game
Modeling Scenario
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4065
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0
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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
348
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121
downloads
0
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1-041-AirToTop-ModelingScenario
One common rule taught to SCUBA divers is to ascend no faster than thirty feet per minute. In this project we will examine safe variable ascent rates, time required for a safe ascent using variable ascent rates.
SCUBA
ascent
air management
breathing
diving
underwater
Modeling Scenario
394
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272
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0
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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
252
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266
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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
386
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398
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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
300
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580
downloads
0
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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
253
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218
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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
294
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581
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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
311
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37
downloads
0
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1-018-LogisticPopModel-ModelingScenario
We offer artificial (toy) and historical data on limited growth population situations in the study of protozoa and lead students through several approaches to estimating parameters and determining the validity of the logistic model in these...
data analysis
parameter estimation
logistic
Ciliate protozoa
population
limited growth
paramecia
Gause
Modeling Scenario
376
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329
downloads
0
comments
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
306
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148
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
286
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234
downloads
0
comments
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
1200
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1266
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0
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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
223
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255
downloads
0
comments
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
446
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357
downloads
0
comments
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
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