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    Building the Best Playground (Grades 3-5)
    The classroom lesson presents students with the task of developing an optimal design for a school playground.

    Keywords: ratesmoneyunit conversions

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    Accelerated Reader (Grades 3-5)
    This classroom lesson presents students with the task of designing a reading schedule to help them reach an overall (total word) reading goal for the year.

    Keywords: rates

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    All About Cod For Grades 3-5
    This activity uses background from The Cod's Tale by Mark Kurlansky and then uses a simple story to engage students in solving problems using several operations and algebraic thinking math standards.

    Keywords: fishNIMBiosword problemsfractionsfish harvestinggrades 3-5simple data plots

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    2017-CW_Groetsch-Hammer and Feather - Some Calculus of Mass and Fall Time
    Does a heavy object fall faster than a lighter one? In 1971 NASA astronaut Dave Scott, Commander of the Apollo 15 lunar mission, used a hammer and a falcon feather on the surface of the moon to...

    Keywords: gravityfree falllinear resistancequadratic resistancehammerfeatherMoon resistanceGalileo

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    3-017-StackedCoffeeFiltersFalling-ModelingScenario
    Data on free falling 2, 4, 6, and 8 stacked coffee filters is offered. Students form a model using a resistance term proportional to velocity, velocity squared, or velocity to some general power....

    Keywords: dataresistancefalling bodycoffee filterstacked

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    The RIOS Institute Strategic Plan
    The Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education (RIOS Institute) is a virtual synthesis center led by a diverse set of individuals at the interface of open education, STEM...
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    2008-Padir-EtAl-Teaching Differential Equations in a Diverse Classroom
    The interesting portion of this paper are the descriptions of student projects offered: Vibrations of a 3-Story Building in an Earthquake, Triple Pendulum, Nonlinear Circuit. Phase portraits were...

    Keywords: circuitearthquakevibrationpendulumbuikldingtriple pendumlumnonlinear circuit

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    What Moves You?
    Using various bone segments to create joints that will explain planar movement and then develop a mechanical model of different joint types that will allow certain movement in a robotic unit.
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    1-128-RocketFlight-ModelingScenario
    We offer an opportunity to build a mathematical model using Newton's Second Law of Motion and a Free Body Diagram to analyze the forces acting on the rocket of changing mass in its upward flight...

    Keywords: resistanceFlightRocketrymassNewton's Second Law of MotionthrustFree Body Diagramapexrocket

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    3-102-SpringMassDamped-ModelingScenario
    Students build a model based on their perceptions of what the solution should look like for a simple spring mass system with damping.

    Keywords: frequencymassoscillationstiffnessspring constantspring\dampedSingle Degree of Freedom Systemcoefficient

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    Lesson II - Databases
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson II introduces the principal databases for microbial...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Ethics in Synthetic Biology
    This collection of five activities provide students with an introduction to thinking about ethical concerns in human genome synthesis, gene editing, metabolic engineering, and synthetic genomes.

    Keywords: biostatisticsstatistical analysisavian malariaSummer Workshop 2018

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    Exploring Functions for Common Phage Proteins
    This resource is designed to help students better understand the functions of common structural and enzymatic phage proteins, and to relate these functions to phage structure using electron...
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    2004-Charalampos_Toumasis-A mathematical diet model
    This article describes an application of simple differential equations in the field of dietetics as it may be presented to a calculus class or a high school mathematics club.

    Keywords: dietdietetics

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    1990-Winkel_Brian-First-year_calculus_students_as_in-class_consultants
    We demonstrate how we use traditional text book calculus problems to involve first year calculus students as consultants. Students are asked to solve a “real world” problem after interviewing a...

    Keywords: optimizationcalculusConsultantprinterclient

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    3-101-SpringMassFirstTry-NoResistance-ModelingScenario
    Students build a model based on their perceptions of what the solution should look like for a simple spring mass system with no damping.

    Keywords: frequencymassoscillationundampedspring constantspring\Single Degree of Freedom System

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    Quantitative Reasoning: Peer Review 16(3), 2014
    In this issue of the journal Peer Review, the authors discuss the issues surrounding quantitative literacy.

    Keywords: mathematicseducationquantitativemathQuantitative reasoningquantResources @ AACUproceedingsResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Spreadsheet Tutorial 3 - Column Graphs, Error Bars, and Standard Error of the Mean
    Generate a column or bar graph with standard error bars.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific MethodologyHigh School

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    3-052-OptimalProjectileFiring-ModelingScenario
    We offer the opportunity to model a projectile's trajectory in several cases, all without resistance.

    Keywords: projectile motionprojectilelaunch anglemaximum range

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    SIMIODE Spring 2024 Webinars - Ethics Modeling
    A Practical Guide for Incorporating Ethical Reasoning into Mathematics Courses through Modeling Problems

    Keywords: modelinginterdisciplinaryguideethicsgroup workethical reasoning

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