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Dame, L.; Aryal, B.; Huq, A.; Prat-Resina, X. – PRIMUS, 2019
Students entering health sciences programs may face challenges on their road to successful completion and possible entry to medical school in the area of preparedness in quantitative skills. At our institution, faculty analyzed evidence of these challenges including performance on the ACT Math Test, an in-house math placement test and quantitative…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Algebra
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Dray, Tevian; Gire, Elizabeth; Kustusch, Mary Bridget; Manogue, Corinne A.; Roundy, David – PRIMUS, 2019
Calculus, as commonly taught, describes certain operations on explicit functions, but science relies on experimental data, which is inherently discrete. In the face of this disparity, how can we help students transition from lower-division mathematics courses to upper-division coursework in other STEM disciplines? We discuss here our efforts to…
Descriptors: Calculus, Physics, Majors (Students), Science Instruction
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Yao, Guangming; Black, Kelly; Ramsdell, Michael; Skufca, Joseph – PRIMUS, 2020
Improving student success rates in introductory calculus and physics courses is critically important for our students' path in STEM fields. Many of the students who have an intuitive understanding of physics fail calculus and are pushed to delay or drop their majors in technical fields. One way of addressing this issue is by adopting a program…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Success, Mathematics Achievement
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Spayd, Kimberly; Puckett, James – PRIMUS, 2016
This article describes our modeling approach to teaching the one-dimensional heat (diffusion) equation in a one-semester undergraduate partial differential equations course. We constructed the apparatus for a demonstration of heat diffusion through a long, thin metal rod with prescribed temperatures at each end. The students observed the physical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Equations (Mathematics), Heat, Teaching Methods
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Karls, Michael A. – PRIMUS, 2011
After the success of a course on cryptography for a general audience, based on Simon Singh's "The Code Book" [49], I decided to try again and create a mathematics course for a general audience based on "The Physics of Star Trek" by Lawrence Krauss [32]. This article looks at the challenges of designing a physics-based mathematics course "from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Curriculum Development, Physics, Science Fiction
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White, James D.; Carpenter, Jenna P. – PRIMUS, 2008
Louisiana Tech University has an integrated science curriculum for its mathematics, chemistry, physics, computer science, biology-research track and secondary mathematics and science education majors. The curriculum focuses on the calculus sequence and introductory labs in biology, physics, and chemistry. In the introductory biology laboratory…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Safety, Physics
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Armstead, Donald C.; Karls, Michael A. – PRIMUS, 2006
The wave equation is a classic partial differential equation that one encounters in an introductory course on boundary value problems or mathematical physics, which can be used to describe the vertical displacement of a vibrating string. Using a video camera and Wave-in-Motion software to record displacement data from a vibrating string or spring,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Photography, Computer Uses in Education, Video Technology
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Simoson, Andrew J. – PRIMUS, 2004
We describe a project for calculus and differential equations students involving trajectories of a spacecraft whose propulsion system depends solely on muting gravitational effects of heavenly bodies. In particular, we consider the spacecraft imagined by H. G. Wells, and focus on getting his spacecraft from the Moon to the Earth. Cavorite, angular…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Motion, Calculus, Mathematics Instruction