Publication Title

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

Mathematics

Publication Date

12-2012

Abstract

We describe a semester-long collaboration between a mathematics class and a biology class. Students worked together to understand and model the trajectory of the pandemic H1N1, pH1N1, outbreak across campus in fall 2009. Each course had about 30 students and was an upper-level elective for majors. Some mathematics students had taken no college-level biology, and some biology students had taken no college-level mathematics. All students had taken at least three quantitative courses, so they had some experience working with data. Our goals were to allow students to work with and model a real data set that affected them personally, to explore how the outbreak spread within our small campus, and for students to share their areas of expertise. This project created opportunities for synthesis and evaluation.

Comments

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v13i2.429

Copyright Note

This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Bates College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Required Publisher's Statement

Copyright © American Society for Microbiology. Reproduced with permission from American Society for Microbiology

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