PBS has developed a number of websites for educators, and their PBS Teachers site has received a number of accolades and high praise from diverse quarters. First-time visitors to the site may wish to first use the...

Created by David Smith for the Connected Curriculum Project, the purpose of this module is to develop the Lotka-Volterra model for predator-prey interactions and a two-populaton version of Euler's Method for solving a...

Production functions, such as the Cobb-Douglas and CES, underly cost schedules used to model firms in micro-economics. The models illustrate this link and show the relation between long and short run cost schedules. Uses...

Created by William Barker and David Smith for the Connected Curriculum Project, this module develops a mathematical model for decay of radioactive substances, and a technique for deciding whether quantitative data fits...

Created for the Connected Curriculum Project, the purpose of this module is to study differential equations that model falling objects subject to air resistance -- for example, raindrops -- and to develop Euler's Method,...