MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge, a program of SIAM, is a free contest for high school juniors and seniors in the U.S. and sixth form students in England and Wales. The Challenge is entirely Internet-based with no registration or participation fees. M3C offers resources for high school students and teachers, such as:
Handbooks
Videos
Technical computing advice
Practice problems and an archive of past problems and solutions
This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of figures, while optional coding extensions teach R skills.
data in the classroom, data interpretation, precipitation, stream discharge, Palmer Drought Severity Index, lidar, Ecological Disturbance, disturbance ecology, High School
The tutorial has two approaches for teaching about graph building and choosing the appropriate graph for different data types, a scaffolding approach and a exploration approach which can be utilized depending on how you wish to use the resource.
These two hands-on activities are based on a Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2013 Holiday Lectures on Science video (http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cancer-genetic-disease-video-highlights) featuring researcher Dr. Charles L. Sawyers.
genetics, Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractive, organismal biology, neuroscience, genomics, cancer, genetic basis of disease, biology of cells, High School
Cancer is typically attributed to hereditary and environmental factors, but these only explain a fraction of overall cancer risk. This activity explores a third factor.
Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractive, cancer, Scientific Process, Statistics and Math, Scientific Methodology, biology of cells, cell growth and division, High School
This is a classroom activity in which students use authentic data to assess the threat of coral bleaching around the world. It supports the 2014 Holiday Lectures on Science video featuring Dr. Stephen Palumbi.
ecology, Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractive, Biodiversity, climate, Scientific Process, Statistics and Math, ecosystems, earth and environment, human impacts, High School
ecology, Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractive, Video, Biodiversity, climate, Animals, Scientific Process, Scientific Methodology, earth and environment, human impacts, scientists at work, diversity of organisms, High School
This introduction to spreadsheet programs describes the basic organization of a worksheet, how to organize and format your data, how to perform simple mathematical calculations, how to use built-in mathematical functions, and how to select and...
