MAA MathFest, Denver CO USA 1-4 August 2018

Invitation to Contributed Paper Session on Using Modeling in Teaching Differential Equations

SIMIODE is sponsoring a Contributed Paper Session at MAA MathFest in Denver Colorado, 1-4 August 2018. We invite you to share your experiences and enthusiasm for using modeling to motivate and teach differential equations coursework.

To submit an abstract for MAA MathFest 2018, go to www.maa.org/mathfest/abstracts and follow the instructions found there. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30, 2018. Early submissions are encouraged.

Title:  Modeling-Based Teaching and Learning in Differential Equations Courses

Abstract: This session features talks centered around modeling-based teaching and learning in differential equations courses. Presentations may include descriptions of modeling-based scenarios developed for these courses as well as shared experiences of using modeling in a course, from a one-time project to redesigning an entire course. We welcome speakers who are just beginning to use this method along with those with more experience. We are particularly interested in talks which feature real data (either collected or taken from the literature) and a full modeling process for students, i.e. stating assumptions, making identifications, creating a differential equation model, developing solution strategies, performing parameter estimations, rendering model validation, iterating this process, and communicating the results. Some evidence of the success of individual approaches should be offered.

Organizers:
Brian Winkel, Director SIMIODE
Lisa Driskell, Associate Professor of Mathematics at Colorado Mesa University
Audrey Malagon, Batten Associate Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Wesleyan University

Invitation to Minocourse on Using Modeling in Teaching Differential Equations

Minicourse #1.  Initiating, Designing, Building, and Using Modeling Scenarios for Teaching Differential Equations

Part A.  Thursday, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Tower Court A

Part B.   Friday, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Tower Court A

Presenters:  Brian Winkel, SIMIODE; Lisa Driskell, Colorado Mesa University; and Audrey Malagon, Virginia Wesleyan University

Apply:  Register at https://www.maa.org/meetings/mathfest/mathematical-sessions/2018/minicourses for MAA MathFest 2018 and follow the instructions found there.

Description: This minicourse offers experienced guidance and hundreds of rich sources for initiating, designing, and building materials for teaching differential equations using mathematical models from a wide variety of cognate disciplines. We offer this minicourse in support of colleagues who wish to create teaching materials for teaching differential equations though modeling. The leadership team of accomplished authors will discuss how they prepare and produce modeling scenarios and then help participants focus on projects of their own creation. We will share many sources for constructing teaching materials, point to immediate possibilities available to participants, and help them gain confidence in their ability to compose their own modeling scenarios. Through active, hands-on, small group work participating faculty will experience using modeling to teach differential equations from day one as but one example of the kind of material they can produce.

Sponsor:  Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations (SIMIODE)

NSF Funded Workshops – Invitation to Apply

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The National Science Foundation and SIMIODE are sponsoring two, week-long workshops on using modeling in teaching differential equations and we invite you to consider joining us.    

SIMIODE – Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations is an NSF funded, supporting community at www.simiode.org with resources for teaching differential equations through modeling and real-world situations. SIMIODE advocates and supports an inductive approach to learning differential equations through context with the use of Modeling Scenarios.

We offer two types of workshops and invite you to consider joining us – MINDE for practitioners who are teaching and want to use modeling in their differential equations courses and DEMARC for colleagues who want to develop modeling materials for peer-reviewed, online publication at SIMIODE.

Application deadline, 1 May 2018, for both workshops and acceptance on first come, first served basis for MINDE.

MINDE — Model INstructors in Differential Equations Workshop,  22-28 July 2018 at Manhattan College, Riverdale NY USA. This is a Practitioner Workshop for applicants to participate in a challenging and invigorating faculty development opportunity to enhance their teaching of undergraduate differential equations in a modeling-first approach. Room and board is provided and there is a $300 registration fee. Those selected to participate will actively engage to enable them to incorporate curricular materials and pedagogies using modeling to motivate learning differential equations in context with their students after the workshop. Contact Director@simiode.org to register your interest and details will follow. The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Applicants must be US citizens. Apply with the information found at https://www.simiode.org/nsfpracworkshop .

DEMARC — Differential Equations Model And Resource Creators Workshop, 15-21 July 2018 at Manhattan College, Riverdale NY USA. We invite qualified applicants to participate in a challenging,  invigorating, supportive, and innovative  faculty development opportunity to create new curricular materials  that enhance the teaching and learning of undergraduate differential equations in a modeling-first approach. Those selected to participate will be “Differential Equations Model And Resource Creators,” or DEMARC Fellows and receive their transportation, room and board, and modest stipend.  During the workshop, DEMARC Fellows will create application modules and related documentation which they will submit to the double-blind, peer-reviewed process for publication in SIMIODE.   Applicants must be US citizens.  Apply with the information found at https://www.simiode.org/nsfdevworkshop .

Comparable workshops will be held in summer of 2019 and 2020, and beyond.

Bring a non-participant guest for New York City at only $48/night.  For both workshops single rooms with shared baths, in a modern air-conditioned dormitory, will provide a comfortable setting. Participants may elect to bring partner, spouse, or colleague as a non-participant for the second bed in the room for $48/night. The workshop will take a break on Wednesday afternoon and evening for afternoon and evening on the town! Located at the end of the 1 Line of the subway, Manhattan College is in a beautiful campus setting in the Bronx with ready access to all the cultural possibilities of the New York metropolitan area.

We look forward to hearing from you or your colleagues, for we ask you to pass along this message to those you believe might like to engage. If you have any questions you may direct them to Director@simiode.org.  Thank you.