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AIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 6

August 2, 2020

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AIM/MCRN Summer School: Week 5

July 26, 2020

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Professor Christopher K.R.T. Jones — Recipient of the 2020 MPE Prize


Professor Chris Jones is the Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professor in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN). The 2020 MPE Prize recognizes Professor Jones for his many significant contributions to climate science and the mathematics of planet Earth.

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Teach Networks to Teenagers

Biodiversity / Biology / Disease Modeling / Ecology / Epidemiology / General / Ocean / Public Health / Social Systems / Transportation

This is an article about outreach efforts to teach networks to students of age 13-16 in England. Supplementary teaching materials are available, too.
Link to the abstract and article
Download supplementary materials (.zip file)

AMSI MPE Schools Resources

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The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has a number of self-contained classroom resources based on topical issues and current events. For each there is a brief background and some mathematical questions for students.

Link to the AMSI MPE Resources

Publications de l’ADIREM

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Liste des publications de l’ADIREM.

NASA SpaceMath – Problems in Earth Science

Atmosphere / Climate / Climate Change / Energy / Geophysics / Meteorology / Natural Disasters / Ocean

SpaceMath@NASA has created a number of individual math problems for grades 5-12 that feature Earth science themes. This webpage is the archive of these problems – each is given by its title, content, grade level and math skill, and consists of a single Student page and a teacher Answer key in a compact PDF file.
Link to the NASA problems in earth science, Link to the full SpaceMath@NASA collection

NASA Remote Sensing Math

Atmosphere / Climate / Climate Change / Energy / Geophysics / Inverse Problems

With 103 problems designed for middle and high school students, this book covers many topics in remote sensing, satellite imaging, image analysis and interpretation. Examples are culled from NASA earth science and astronomy missions. Students learn about instrument resolution and sensitivity as well as how to calibrate a common digital camera, and how to design a satellite imaging system.
Download Remote Sensing Math (pdf, 18 MB, 226 pages)

NASA Earth Math

Atmosphere / Climate / Climate Change / Energy / Ocean

With 46 problems tailored for grades 5-9, students explore the simple mathematics behind global climate change through analyzing graphical data, data from NASA satellites, and by performing simple calculations of carbon usage using home electric bills and national and international energy consumption.
Download Earth Math (pdf, 6.8 MB, 1066 pages)

AMS-ASA-MAA-SIAM Math Awareness Month

Atmosphere / Biology / Celestial Mechanics / Climate / Climate Change / General / Geophysics / Ocean / Political Systems / Social Systems

April is Math Awareness Month in the US! Check out the essays, posters and related materials for 2013 and previous years‘ themes, including:

  • 2013 – Mathematical and Sustainability
  • 2011 – Unraveling Complex Systems
  • 2009 – Mathematics and Climate
  • 2008 – Math and Voting
  • 2005 – Mathematics and the Cosmos
  • 2004 – The Mathematics of Networks
  • 2002 – Mathematics and the Genome
  • 2001 – Mathematics and the Ocean
  • 1996 – Mathematics and Decision Making

Jointly organized by the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

NCTM Curriculum resources for Elementary level, Middle School and High School

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