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1-095-RatingChessPlayers-ModelingScenarios
The goal of this activity is to have students build a mathematical model involving a system of first order difference equations from a verbal description of a scenario.
simulation
chess
Elo's method
chess rating
Modeling Scenario
223
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402
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0
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1-091-InvestigatingSlopeFields-ModelingScenario
Students will gain experience writing differential equations to model various population scenarios, they will create slope fields to view the solution curves using software, and they will discuss the behavior of the solution curves.
slope fields
population
Modeling Scenario
336
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1-005C-OilSlick-ModelingScenario
We describe a modeling activity for Calculus I students in which modeling with difference and differential equations is appropriate.
Problem Solving
oil slick
spread
fitting
line
assumptions
Modeling Scenario
385
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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
Article or Presentation
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430
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0
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2020-TeachingModule-ModelingNonlethalInfluenzaEpidemic
We discuss the modeling efforts and tools for success in modeling the spread of nonlethal influenza in an English boarding school
module
epidemic
boarding school
Teaching Module
Modeling Scenario
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229
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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
244
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224
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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
323
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227
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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
Modeling Scenario
253
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317
downloads
0
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1-037-CommonColdSpread-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario guides students to simulate and investigate the spread of the common cold in a residence hall. An example floor plan is given, but the reader is encouraged to use a more relevant example.
disease
common cold
residence hall
Modeling Scenario
270
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274
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0
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1-139-PlantsVsHerbivores-ModeliongScenario
In this activity, students will apply a variety of techniques for analyzing nonlinear systems (e.g., nullclines, linearization, and technologies for drawing phase portraits) to study plant-herbivore models.
ecology
nullclines
herbivore
plant-herbivore interactions
plant
linearization
Article or Presentation
597
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577
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0
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2020-TeachingModule-CarSuspension
The modeling activity on car suspensions assumes that students have grappled with second order linear homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients.
module
suspension
car suspension
second order
Teaching Module
Modeling Scenario
243
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129
downloads
0
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3-091-SpringModeling-ModelingScenario
In this lab students will collect data on their spring mass systems and compare their empirical models to their theoretical ones—giving them an opportunity to actually test a model against data.
data
laboratory
LoggerPro
Vernier
mass-spring system
model validation
empirical model
theoretical model
Modeling Scenario
224
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158
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0
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1-130-AspirinAbsorption-ModelingScenario
We model the amount of aspirin absorbed by the human body at a constant rate. This is a ``zero-order reaction'' in the language of pharmacokinetics -- the study of how drugs move in the body.
pharmacokinetics
drug
aspirin
Modeling Scenario
228
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199
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0
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1-135-FishHarvesting-ModelingScenario
This short activity will walk students through a guided list of questions to help them to understand how the stability of equilibrium changes with changes in a model parameter, in this case the rate of harvesting fish.
population dynamics
fish
stability
bifurcation
harvest
Modeling Scenario
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48
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0
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1-131-CaffeineElimination-ModelingScenario
We model the concentration of caffeine eliminated from the human body at a rate proportional to the concentration. This is a ``first-order reaction'' in the language of pharmacokinetics -- the study of how drugs move in the body.
caffeine
elimination
pharmacokinetics
drug
Potential Scenario
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37
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0
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2012-Lensyl-Urbano-The Draining of a Plastic Bottle-Integrating a Physics Experiment into Calculus
I punched a small hole (about 1mm radius) in a one gallon plastic bottle and had my students measure the rate at which water drained.
in-class activity
experiment
Torricelli's Law
cylinder of water
expderiment
Modeling Scenario
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110
downloads
0
comments
1-084-GoingViral-ModelingScenario
Students employ randomization in order to create a simulation of the spread of a viral disease in a population (the classroom). Students then use qualitative analysis of the expected behavior of the virus to devise a logistic differential equation.
simulation
logistic
random
fitting
partial fractions
Modeling Scenario
179
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125
downloads
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
363
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101
downloads
0
comments
6-067-LotkaVolterra-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario guides students through the process of fitting the Lotka-Volterra model of two differential equations to a real time series observational data. Students use the capabilities of R and R studio.
time series
data
competition
Lotka-Volterra
model fitting
prediction
gauseR
experimental
Modeling Scenario
476
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248
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0
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1-001a-MMDeathImmigration-Variation-ModelingScenario
We model exponential death with m&m's as well as death with immigration.
simulation
data
m&m
immigration
death
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