Parts of the Whole: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning in the Predator-Prey Model

The classical predator-prey equations are in nearly every differential equations text and mathematical biology text. Usually they are presented fait accompli, leaving the student to analyze them or play with a computer program. Here we show that the process of fully understanding where these equatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorothy Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Numeracy Network 2016-01-01
Series:Numeracy
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol9/iss1/art10/