SIMIODE

Mar 2019

1. High School Does Not Have to Be Boring

   Entry #148

   31 Mar 2019

   1:28 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   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...

2. Deferential Equations

   Entry #147

   28 Mar 2019

   10:16 am

   Brian Winkel

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3. Differential Equation Modeling Opportunities All Around - Measles Vaccination Issues

   Entry #146

   26 Mar 2019

   3:06 pm

   Brian Winkel

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   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...

4. Trust, Modeling, Curiosity, and Learning

   Entry #145

   03 Mar 2019

   8:12 am

   Brian Winkel

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   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...