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Tracking Trout: Engaging Students in Modeling
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Alhammouri, Ahmad M.; Foley, Gregory D.; Dael, Kevin – Mathematics Teacher, 2018
In this article, the authors describe how a theoretical framework--the modeling cycle of Bliss, Fowler, and Galluzzo (2014)--came to life in their classroom as students struggled with an open-ended modeling task. The authors share their high school students' work--warts and all. They explain how they used their students' ideas and errors to help…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Problem Solving, Learner Engagement
A Blizzard of a Value
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Bostic, Jonathan D. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
"Who has been to Dairy Queen® and purchased a Blizzard?®" Ms. Bosetti asked her students. During the summer, Bosetti had seen many of her former and future students at the local Dairy Queen enjoying Blizzard desserts and wondered, "Which Blizzard size is the best value?" She used this context for a ratios and proportions task…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematical Models, Food
A New Undergraduate Curriculum on Mathematical Biology at the University of Dayton
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Usman, Muhammad; Singh, Amit – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2011
The beginning of modern science is marked by efforts of pioneers to understand the natural world using a quantitative approach. As Galileo wrote, "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics". The traditional undergraduate course curriculum is heavily focused on individual disciplines like biology, physics, chemistry,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Biology, Sciences
Interim Report on Panel One of a Longitudinal Study of Developing Career Expectations.
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Hotchkiss, Lawrence; Chiteji, Lisa – 1979
The first panel of a three-year longitudinal study was conducted to investigate the process by which youth form career expectations. The study was designed around a cross-sectional path model of career expectations drawn from the sociological literature on status attainment and is based on differential equations in which all expectation variables…
Descriptors: Career Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Sectional Studies, Decision Making
Improving the Economic Assumption Factors in the Cost-Benefit Study Formulas for Ohio Vocational Education, or A System for the Evaluation of Investment in Vocational Education in Ohio. [Final Report].
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1978
A localized system for the evaluation of investment in vocational education in Ohio is described in this four part manual. Following an instruction introduction to the manual, part II provides a description of the analytical framework for this system. Vocational education is analyzed as an investment and an explanation of the criteria used in the…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Factors, Evaluation Criteria
System for the Evaluation of Investment in Vocational Education in Ohio.
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1978
A system designed to evaluate investment in Ohio's vocational education programs is described in this monograph which also serves as the system manual. Major features emphasized are (1) the system enables calculation of rate of return and of present value of investment in the training of an individual in a vocational program, when education is…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Data Processing