Introduction to ODEs w/Climate Change Models: Linking 2nd Year Math Students to the Climate Crisis
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Rebecca Tyson, University of British Columbia - Okanagan, Kelowna BC CANADA
Sarah Wyse, University of British Columbia - Okanagan, Kelowna BC CANADA
https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/simiode/expo
Abstract: Climate change is the most pressing problem of our time, and in order to address the crisis we need `all hands on deck’, including mathematics students. Standard second year courses in ODEs generally contain little to no real climate change content, but, as it is a first course in modelling, we decided that meaningful climate-ODEs content could be created. We created a series of group work projects that related climate change models the course content in a standard second-year Introduction to ODEs course. In this talk, we present the learning goals for the new content, and outline the group work projects we developed. In addition, we discuss challenges encountered in introducing the content, and student responses to the group work projects. We close with some thoughts for future implementation of climate change content in second year ODEs.