SIMIODE

2020

1. Tech Tools to Increase Engagement

   Entry #174

   03 Mar 2020

   1:02 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   Tech Tools to Increase Engagement From the Teaching Entrepreneurship web site and community we find the enlightening piece on Tech Tools to Increase Engagement. Here is the opening grabber material from the site: It’s no question: technology is shaping how or students engage (or...

2. A Vision for Projects Across the Mathematics Curriculum

   Entry #173

   03 Mar 2020

   12:46 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   A Vision for Projects Across the Mathematics Curriculum - PRIMUS article In the current issue of PRIMUS - see  https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upri20/current - there is a remarkable paper by five talented and accomplished faculty with the title "A Vision for Projects Across...

3. Mathematics + Cancer: An Undergraduate Bridge Course in Applied Mathematics

   Entry #172

   27 Feb 2020

   2:31 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   We take this opportunity (every opportunity actually!) to share with you this remarkable article in SIAM Review. We suggest you get a copy and let it flow over you with wonderful ideas for modeling to bring to your students. The full citation is, Stepien, Tracy L., Eric J. Kostelich, and Yang...

4. Stay curious, tackle projects, and learn by doing

   Entry #170

   25 Feb 2020

   12:00 am

   Brian Winkel

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   A colleague of mine* teaches entrepreneurship at John Carroll University in Cleveland Heights OH USA and in a recent FaceBook post he said, "Our entire approach to education – `stocking up' students with knowledge for them to use later – isn’t supported by the science...

5. Blogging more frequently as we have lots to offer . . . .. athletic quadcopters

   Entry #169

   21 Feb 2020

   12:00 am

   Brian Winkel

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   Egads!  We have not entered a blog entry since September 2019. What have we been doing? Well, we have been working with wonderful colleagues to bring resources for teachers who wish to use modeling to motivate teaching differential equations in many ways by maintaining...