| Abstract | Dartmouth's "Calculus with Applications in Biology and Medicine" course is designed to integrate undergraduate research into the introductory mathematics curriculum, within six weeks. Students progress from remembering simple exponential growth models in week one to reading research papers with multiple ordinary differential equations, reading these critically, testing hypotheses by altering equations or designing new ones, and using the computer to draw conclusions about real world problems. In order to achieve these results, Wallace has developed a highly interactive teaching strategy that quickly puts students in charge of developing their own models, evaluating them critically, and posing their own research questions. |
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