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1-001c-S-PopulationDecayThenSome
18 Jun 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Dina Yagodich
This is an adaption of Modeling Scenario 1-001-S-MandMDeathAndImmigration in which death and immigration of m&m's is replaced by check outs and arrivals in a hotel and makes specific use of MatLab coding.
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1-125-S-DiceyPopulations
04 Mar 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
We offer students an opportunity to generate unique data for their team on a death and immigration model using 12 and 20 sided dice and then pass on the data to another student team for analysis with a model they built. The key is to recover the parameters and try to explain how the simulation...
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2018-Karls, Michael - Presentation - Incorporating a Modeling First Approach into a Traditional ODE Course
18 Jan 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Michael Karls
Incorporating a Modeling First Approach into a Traditional ODE Course by Mike Karls. Ball State University.A talk given at the AMS Special Session on Modeling in Differential Equations - High School, Two-Year College, Four-Year Institution at Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego CA, 9-13...
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1-001B-S-MAndM-DeathImmigrationMystery
27 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
We describe a classroom activity in which students use M&M candies to simulate death and immigration. Each student conducts an experiment with an immigration rate unique to that student - of that student's choice. Collected data on generation or iteration and population is then...
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1-001pgf-S-BirthDeathImmigration
09 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Chris McCarthy
We develop a mathematical model of a death and immigration process using m&m's as a stochastic process with the help of probability generating functions.
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2015-Thoo, John - User Comments on SIMIODE 1-1-M&M - Death and Immigration Modeling Scenario
21 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: John Thoo
John Thoo, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Yuba College, offers detailed narrative review on his use of this material
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2009-Winkel, Brian - Population Modeling with M and M's
30 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
From Population modelling with M&M's, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 40(4): 554 — 558. (2009)Several activities in which population dynamics can be modeled by tossing M&M’s® candy are presented. Physical activities...
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1-004-S-MicroorganismImmigration
30 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
We present a modeling opportunity for population death with non-constant immigration and suggest the use of both discrete and continuous models with a comparison of results.
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1-001-S-MandMDeathAndImmigration
30 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
We describe a classroom activity in which students use M&M candies to simulate death and immigration. Students build a mathematical model, collect data, estimate parameters, and compare their model prediction with their actual data. There is a video of one run of the main simulation in...