Timeline for Topics for undergraduate seminar for mathematics educators
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| Mar 23, 2020 at 13:58 | comment | added | Xander Henderson♦ | @DaveLRenfro In the precalculus curriculum that a colleague and I have been developing over the last several years, these kinds of scaling relations (the square-cube law in biology, inverse square laws in physics, etc) are a major part of the class. Unfortunately, in 60 minutes, there is only so much that I can talk about, and my preference is to get to sexy fractals as quickly as I can. ;) That said, I love the idea of building a math-bio talk around why Kaiju don't work. | |
| Mar 23, 2020 at 9:00 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | You didn't mention it, but my way (haven't given such a talk, however) would be to work in the square-cube law somewhere early, with applications to biology (insects don't need blood vessels but we do), engineering (has to be accounted for in scale models, when scaling things up), economics, etc. I learned about this several decades ago (I think it was something written by Isaac Asimov), where the principle was used to explain why the giant monsters in the 1950s movies couldn't exist. | |
| Mar 22, 2020 at 17:04 | history | answered | Xander Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |