Computational Modeling in the History Classroom
A colleague in the chemistry department, Bob Gotwals, has been teaching me and my students how to build computational models of epidemics like HIV (in my African studies class) and smallpox (in my Latin American studies class) based on the Kermack-McKendrick Algorithm. Our next project is to collaborate on a model of the Protestant Reformation based on virus math. Below is the powerpoint of the presentation that I just gave at the 2010 National Consortium for Secondary Schools of Science, Mathematics and Technology on epidemic modeling in the history classroom. PICTURE: A virus model we built in class using STELLA modeling software.
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File Type: | pptx |