Teaching & Reference Material (1-13 of 13)

1. Training In-Service Teachers to Think Deeply About Modeling in the Common Core Movement

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   11 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Talitha Washington

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/242Over the years, I have conducted in-service teacher training sessions and workshops organized by the Capstone Institute at Howard University. My role has been to enhance teacher content...

2. A Framework for Modeling to Encourage Interdisciplinary Conversations

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   11 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Carrie Diaz Eaton

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/209Here we present a framework for thinking about what models and modeling are, particularly to other disciplines. We encourage that differing disciplinary approaches are seen as part of a...

3. A Framework for Teaching Modeling to Biologists

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   10 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Drew LaMar

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/210What are the modeling skills and metacognitive strategies of importance for the life sciences? In this talk, we describe a teaching and learning framework around modeling...

4. Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models

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   26 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: William Wimsatt, Jeff Schank

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/346Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.

5. Sting, Carry and Stock: How Corpse Availability Can Regulate De-Centralized Task Allocation in a Ponerine Ant Colony

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   20 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Istvan Karsai, Thomas Schmickl

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/844We develop a model to produce plausible patterns of task partitioning in the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum based on the availability of living prey and prey corpses. The...

6. SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

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   20 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel

   SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations  is about teaching differential equations using modeling and technology upfront and throughout the learning process. You can learn more at our dynamic website, www.simiode.org, where we...

7. Dairy Farm Mathematics

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   09 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Richard Francisco, Katie Gilbert

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/783From the website:We based our instructional unit on the premise that many people have, that one does not need mathematics if the they do not plan on attending...

8. Disease Spread Simulation with M&M's and Information on the wider SIMIODE community

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   03 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/358This is a Student Version of a Modeling Scenario from the community, SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations at...

9. ModelSim Population Biology Unit

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   18 May 2015 |

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/902This resource provides rich student modeling activities and materials, teacher resources, and much more, in the realm of agent based models applied to population biology....

10. Ecology and Epidemiology in R

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    09 May 2015 |

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/837

11. Numbers Count!: Calculus 2 course

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    28 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Claudia Neuhauser

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/751Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course  introduces linear transformations,...

12. Tools: New tools for new science

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    06 Feb 2015 |

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/891A collection of computational, modeling and data analysis tools developed at Microsoft Research Labs.

13. Project MOSAIC

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    23 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Daniel Kaplan, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Horton, Eric Marland, Randall Pruim

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/825From the project website: Project MOSAIC is a community of educators working to develop a new way to introduce mathematics, statistics, computation and modeling...