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    BioNumbers: The Database of Useful Biological Numbers
    A database of biological numbers that you can search and browse.
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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Faculty Math Anxiety Overview
    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minute-1 hour presentation to introduce faculty or other instructors to the idea of math anxiety and some strategies they can use in their own...

    Keywords: math attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Design a Zoo (Grades 6-8)
    This classroom lesson presents students with the job of designing a zoo, which could include modeling tasks ranging from choosing and locating the exhibits to setting the right admission prices.
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    Design a Zoo (Grades 3-5)
    This classroom lesson presents students with the job of designing a zoo, which could include modeling tasks ranging from choosing and locating the exhibits to setting the right admission prices.

    Keywords: unit costbudgetsdistance

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    Use of PeerWise - an open digital question authoring tool
    Session on PeerWise presented at BioQUEST Workshop 2018

    Keywords: Summer Workshop 2018

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    Intro to DNA Subway Blue Line
    This is a classroom tested introductory lesson & activity to introduce DNA Barcoding and DNA Subway Blue Line. It is for novices and will fit into a 1 hr 50 min lecture or lab class period.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsNIBLSEDNA BarcodingDNA sequenceBLASTmultiple sequence alignment

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    5-015-RunnersSynchronize-ModelingScenario
    In this modeling scenario we practice finding and classifying equilibria of a one-variable differential equation. We do this in the context of a phase model which is often a simpler way of studying...

    Keywords: predatorAutonomous equationsoscillationcoupled oscillatorsynchronyrunnerpreyKuramato model

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    3-045-RampBounce-ModelingScenario
    Students build two projectile motion models (1) a one-dimensional model for a vertically falling ball from a fixed distance until it hits an inclined ramp and (2) a two-dimensional projectile...

    Keywords: projectile motioninclined rampcoefficient of restitutionoptimal anglebounce

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    1-012-Sublimation-Modeling Scenario
    We offer data on the sublimation of dry ice (carbon dioxide) collected in a classroom setting so that students can model the rate of change in the mass of a small solid carbon dioxide block with a...

    Keywords: sublimationdry ice

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    2001-Edwards-Buckmire-A differential equation model of North American cinematic box-office dynamics
    A new mathematical model is presented for the box-office dynamics of a motion picture released in North America.

    Keywords: cinemamoviesbox-office

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    2009-Brian_Winkel-Modelling_Growth_Of_an_OilSlick
    An oil-slick spreads at sea. From time to time, but irregularly, a helicopter is dispatched. On each trip, it arrives over the slick, the pilot takes a picture, waits 10 minutes, takes another, and...

    Keywords: differential equationssimulationparameter estimationdifference equation

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    6-004-VillageEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    Students are offered data from a plague epidemic that occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in Eyam, a small English village. With only two assumptions offered to students they...

    Keywords: SIR modelsepidemicsusceptibleinfectiveremovedEyamEnglish village

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    5-005-StiffDifferentialEquations-TechniqueNarrative
    This material introduces the topic of ``stiffness'' for a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE's), through a series of examples. Stiffness is a property that a system of ODE's may...

    Keywords: Euler's methodexplicit methodsimplicit methodsstiffsitffnessstiff differential equationinstability

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    1-055-WaterFallingInCone-ModelingScenario
    We offer an opportunity to model the height of a falling body of water in a right circular cone (funnel) and to estimate an appropriate parameter based on data collected from a video of the...

    Keywords: Torricelli's Lawdischarge coefficientconecontraction coefficient

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    1-059-ContainerShapeFallingWater-ModelingScenario
    We examine many different physical situations to determine the time it takes a fixed volume of water to flow out of different shape containers through the same size exit hole at the bottom of the...

    Keywords: containersTorricelli's Lawshapedischarge coefficient

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    1-077-RLMSimSeriesCircuit-ModelingScenario
    In this validation setup, the first order linear ordinary differential equation governing a small signal RL series AC circuit is solved analytically and the results are compared with the data...

    Keywords: MeasurementcircuitvoltagecurrentvalidationSPICERL circuitMultilsim

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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.

    Keywords: simulationchessElo's methodchess rating

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    1-140-LeakyBucket-ModelingScenario
    We seek to model the height of water in a cylindrical tank (bucket) in which water flows out the bottom of the tank through a small bore hole while we are pouring water into the tank at the top...

    Keywords: flowTorricelli's Lawleaky bucket

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    3-011-EulerBallThrowing-ModelingScenario
    If a tennis ball is thrown through the air it will hit the ground due to gravity. Using Euler's method, write a short script (Python, Matlab, R, etc.) to find the trajectory of the ball which will...

    Keywords: codingdragonVectorsEuler's methodball

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    3-040-FirstPassageTime-ModelingScenario
    We apply the notions of dampedness to second order, linear, constant coefficient, homogeneous differential equations used to model a spring mass dashpot system and introduce the notion of first...

    Keywords: oscillatordampedunderdampedfirst passagefirst passage timespring mash dashpot

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