What's going on in high school science and mathematics classrooms? Entry #164 08 Sep 2019 11:30 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments David Bressoud, Macalaster College, St. Paul MN USA. and former President of the Mathematical Association of America in his MAA Blog Launchings for 1 September 2019, highlights the report, National Survey of Science & Mathematics Education (NSSME), which describes results from the...
ReDesigning High School Entry #163 29 Aug 2019 12:47 am Brian Winkel 0 comments ReDesigning High School? Really? Really!! Check it out at http://redesigningschool.org/ Hawken School in Cleveland Ohio USA is offering some bold ideas on the redesign of high school with active (we mean very active) and engaged in community learning efforts. A group of ...
Workshops offer many possibilities for Summer 2019 Entry #161 16 Aug 2019 11:39 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments DEMARC and MINDE Workshops We have been busy at SIMIODE with hosting two National Science Foundation funded workshops in July for (1) Developers of materials to be published in SIMIODE - DEMARC for Differential Equations Model and Resource Creators, and (2) Practitioners who wish to...
SCUDEM Participants Increase Self-Efficacy in Mathematical Modeling Entry #160 13 Jul 2019 12:13 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments In a just published article, "Building mathematics self-efficacy of STEM undergraduates through mathematical modelling," in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Jennifer Czocher and her colleagues, Kathleen Melhuish and Sindura Subanemy...
Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then Entry #158 09 Jun 2019 11:58 am Brian Winkel 0 comments We were in a "saloon" restaurant in Grand Marais MI USA recently when the juke box started to play a song whose refrain and title were "Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then." It was sung by the country western singer-songwriter Toby Keith. The song refers to...
Just saying . . . thoughts . . . uplifts. . . . . sharing Entry #157 26 May 2019 11:51 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments
Special issue of PRIMUS - The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework Assignments Entry #156 25 May 2019 9:31 am Brian Winkel 0 comments In the current Special issue of PRIMUS - The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework Assignment (Part I - so there is more to follow) these two talented guest editors, Sarah J. Greenwald (Appalachian State University) and Judy A. Holdener (Kenyon College), have assembled some...
SIMIODE Colleague, Chris McCarthy, Receives Distinguished Teaching Award at Borough of Manhattan Community College Entry #155 25 Apr 2019 10:42 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments The annual Distinguished Teaching Awards at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) celebrate faculty for their scholarship and research, their leadership and inspiration to their peers, and their innovative pedagogy that yields clear evidence of student learning gains. The...
Women abound in mathematics . . no bounds Entry #154 20 Apr 2019 1:58 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments Years ago in the mid 1970's I had a remarkable young woman in my calculus class. There were not that many women in calculus classes then. She told me that she chose mathematics because, “No one expected anything of me.” She was a breath of fresh air, arriving on the first day...
2019 MERLOT Mathematics Classics Award for SIMIODE Entry #153 14 Apr 2019 11:51 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments We were pleased to get notice that SIMIODE was the winner of the 2019 MERLOT Mathematics Classics Award. The MERLOT Mathematics Editorial Board has this to say about the Learning Material: SIMIODE has a vast collection of materials in differential equations including reading materials, videos,...
Special Issue of the CODEE Journal, "Linking Differential Equations to Social Justice and Environmental Concerns" Entry #152 10 Apr 2019 11:58 am Brian Winkel 0 comments From the Foreward, by Karen Allen Keene, to Special Issue of the CODEE Journal, "Linking Differential Equations to Social Justice and Environmental Concerns," a Special Issue of the CODEE Online Journal Volume 12, Issue 1, 2019 In honor of its founder, Professor Robert...
Teachers are designers of meaningful experiences for their students (and themselves!) Entry #151 08 Apr 2019 12:23 am Brian Winkel 0 comments My son, Doan Winkel, who teachers entrepreneurship t John Carroll University in Cleveland Heights OH US posted this recently, "'There’s so much research in education right now that talks about how students won’t understand something unless they can place it within the...
Leveraging the Mathematical Contest in Modeling to Enhance the Undergraduate STEM Experience Entry #150 02 Apr 2019 2:50 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments "Leveraging the Mathematical Contest in Modeling to Enhance the Undergraduate STEM Experience," by Kamila Larripa and Borbala Mazzag, Humboldt State University, Arcata CA USA, is an article which will be appearing in a forthcoming issue of the journal PRIMUS - Problems, Resources, and...
Remaking Education - Long View, but Starting Now Entry #149 01 Apr 2019 12:34 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments Norman’s Notes On 1 April 2019 Norman L. Fortenberry, ASEE Executive Director (ASEE is American Society for Engineering Education) sent out under his title "Norman's Notes" the following message. I highlight sections I believe are particularly pertinent to our work in...
High School Does Not Have to Be Boring Entry #148 31 Mar 2019 1:28 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments In a 30 March 2019 New York Times Opinion piece entitled, "High School Does Not Have to Be Boring," Jal Mehta, an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Sarah Fine, who runs a teacher preparation program at the High Tech High Graduate School of...
Differential Equation Modeling Opportunities All Around - Measles Vaccination Issues Entry #146 26 Mar 2019 3:06 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments If we but look around us we will see material on which to build a Modeling Scenario for our students to see the role of modeling with differential equation scan play. In the 26 March 2019 New York Times reporter Michael Gold writes under the title, "New York Suburb to Declare Measles...
Trust, Modeling, Curiosity, and Learning Entry #145 03 Mar 2019 8:12 am Brian Winkel 0 comments In the current issue of The New Yorker (4 Mar 2019 on page 57) there is a cartoon of a man and a woman looking down at their baby who is sound asleep in a crib. They say to each other "Should we wake her before she wakes us?" They have trust that the child will awake. Indeed, they are...
Time lag in journal publication Entry #144 28 Feb 2019 10:46 am Brian Winkel 0 comments Just a short thought or should I say a long thought in a short form or should I say a short thought in a short form or should I stop this and just say! A recent correspondence with a colleague pointed out the 2 to 3 year lag from submission to publication of an article in a very good MAA...
Marches . . . Napolean to and from Moscow . . . . Students to Calculus Entry #143 26 Feb 2019 4:54 pm Brian Winkel 1 comments In a recent video conference call involving me and my colleague, Corban Harwood, Mathematics, George Fox University, Newberg OR USA, and others, I noted he had a copy of Charle Minard's marvelous map of Napoleon's Russian campaign hanging on his wall. I too have a copy framed and...