And So It Grows: Using a Computer-Based Simulation of a Population Growth Model to Integrate Biology &amp; Mathematics

Garrett M. Street; Timothy A. Laubach

doi:10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.9

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And So It Grows: Using a Computer-Based Simulation of a Population Growth Model to Integrate Biology & Mathematics

Garrett M. Street, Timothy A. Laubach

The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 75 No. 4, April 2013; (pp. 274-279) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.9

GARRETT M. STREET is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1; e-mail: gstreet@uoguelph.ca.

TIMOTHY A. LAUBACH is a former high school science teacher and current Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Oklahoma, 820 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK 73019; e-mail: laubach@ou.edu.

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We provide a 5E structured-inquiry lesson so that students can learn more of the mathematics behind the logistic model of population biology. By using models and mathematics, students understand how population dynamics can be influenced by relatively simple changes in the environment.

Simulation
logistic growth
model
integration
biology
mathematics

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And So It Grows: Using a Computer-Based Simulation of a Population Growth Model to Integrate Biology & Mathematics

Garrett M. Street, Timothy A. Laubach

The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 75 No. 4, April 2013; (pp. 274-279) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.9

GARRETT M. STREET is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1; e-mail: gstreet@uoguelph.ca.

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And So It Grows: Using a Computer-Based Simulation of a Population Growth Model to Integrate Biology & Mathematics

Garrett M. Street, Timothy A. Laubach

The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 75 No. 4, April 2013; (pp. 274-279) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.9

GARRETT M. STREET is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1; e-mail: gstreet@uoguelph.ca.