Tech Tools to Increase Engagement Entry #174 03 Mar 2020 1:02 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments 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...
A Vision for Projects Across the Mathematics Curriculum Entry #173 03 Mar 2020 12:46 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments 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...
Mathematics + Cancer: An Undergraduate Bridge Course in Applied Mathematics Entry #172 27 Feb 2020 2:31 pm Brian Winkel 0 comments 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...
Stay curious, tackle projects, and learn by doing Entry #170 25 Feb 2020 12:00 am Brian Winkel 0 comments 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...
Blogging more frequently as we have lots to offer . . . .. athletic quadcopters Entry #169 21 Feb 2020 12:00 am Brian Winkel 0 comments 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...