Resources (21-29 of 29)

1. 1-150-CancerTherapy-ModelingScenario

   22 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Iordanka Panayotova¹, Maila Hallare²

   1. Christopher Newport University 2. NSU Math

   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...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3195/?v=1

2. 1-190-IntroClass-ModelingScenario

   21 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By William (Bill) Skerbitz

   Wayzata High School, Plymouth MN USA

   Students go through development of ideas in mathematical modeling with differential equations. They encounter fundamental ideas of unlimited population growth, limited population growth and a...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3189/?v=1

3. 6-016-PandemicModeling-ModelingScenario

   17 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jue Wang

   The recent coronavirus outbreak has infected millions of people worldwide and spread to over 200 countries. How can we use differential equations to study the spread of coronavirus?

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3098/?v=1

4. 6-018-ExploringSIRModel-ModelingScenario

   17 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Stanley Florkowski, Ryan Miller¹

   United States Military Academy, West Point NY USA

   Students will transform, solve, and interpret Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) models using systems of differential equation models. The project is progressively divided into three parts to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3097/?v=1

5. Exploring global reef health and human population using correlation and simple linear regression

   10 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By David Sale

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between reef cover and human disturbance. Students will manipulate a large dataset and perform normality tests, data transformations,...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2341/?v=1

6. An introduction to population matrix models: a swirl lesson

   15 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jennifer Apple

   SUNY Geneseo

   Students will learn how to set up a population matrix model in R and use it for demographic analysis of a population, including projecting population growth, determining lambda and the stable age...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1926/?v=1

7. Cohort Life Tables

   12 Feb 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lou Gross¹, Monica Beals¹, Susan Harrell¹

   University of Tennessee Knoxville

   This module introduces cohort life tables in the context of understanding demographic processes and how they affect populations. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1054/?v=1

8. Population dynamics in simple two-species experimental microcosms

   22 Apr 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Christopher T. Ivey

   California State University, Chico

   A two-week exercise which includes homework calculations and teaching resources. Students establish brine shrimp and Platymonas algal cultures and predict final densities.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/507/?v=1

9. Exploring the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model using Two Species of Parasitoid Wasps

   05 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Christopher Beck¹, Judy Guinan², Lawrence Blumer³, Robert Matthews⁴

   1. Emory University 2. Radford University 3. Morehouse College 4. University of Georgia

   Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 2

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/270/?v=1