- Year 2024
- NSF Noyce Award # 2243334
- First Name Thomas
- Last Name Clark
- Institution Dordt University
- Role/Position Co-PI
- Proposal Type Lightning Talk
- Workshop Category Track 1: Scholarships and Stipends
- Workshop Disciplines Audience Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, STEM Education (general)
- Target Audience Noyce Master Teachers, Noyce Teaching Fellows, Undergraduate and/or Graduate Noyce Scholars
- Topics Becoming a Master Teacher, STEM content and/or convergent skills development
Proposal
In this session we explore a novel modeling problem regarding the phenomenon of draining water tanks. This setting is rich enough to draw out the curiosity of students while being flexible enough to be useful at many different levels, from basic level thinking about data, tables, and graphs, to more algebraic modeling, to higher level thinking about parameter estimation, calculus, and physics. We will also demonstrate pedagogical moves that assist in cultivating that curiosity. We also demonstrate using Desmos as a tool to engage the problem visually and quantitatively.
