Professor Kate Poirier | D772 | Spring 2023

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Assignment: Black history month profile!

Due Monday, February 20, 11:59pm

Animated gif that looks like writing on a chalkboard that says "Black history is happening now"

It’s Black History Month! For this assignment, you will write a short profile or biography of a Black mathematician or math educator (or someone else in the Black-in-math community). You will submit your profile as a comment on this post. You have lots of choices for where to find this information and you can use whatever resources you like. Here are two suggestions:

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Project #1: Applications of first-order differential equations

Summary

For Project #1, you will see how the techniques you’ve learned in Chapter 2 for solving first-order differential equations apply to certain real-world examples. In groups, you will put together a full lesson for your classmates on these applications. Project #1 has two parts:

  1. In pairs, you will complete an assigned homework problem from the text and post a video describing your full solution on the OpenLab.
  2. As a group, you will submit a single OpenLab post with
    1. a short lesson to your topic,
    2. links to the pairs’ posts from Part 1 as examples ,
    3. one new question that everyone else in the class should complete.
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