{"id":1204,"date":"2012-05-31T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:09:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:09:59","slug":"new-education-module-on-mathematics-of-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/31\/new-education-module-on-mathematics-of-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"New Education Module on Mathematics of Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1207\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/230px-Plasmodium.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1207\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1207\" title=\"230px-Plasmodium\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/230px-Plasmodium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A thin-film Giemsa stained micrograph of ring-forms, and gametocytes of Plasmodium falciparum (cause of malaria) in human blood. (Shared through Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mathematics helps scientists fight disease &#8211;that&#8217;s the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/education\/disease_math_module\" target=\"_blank\">new NIMBioS education module<\/a> recently posted on our website.\u00a0 In the module, students use manipulatives (beans in a cup) to simulate a disease outbreak and to help develop an understanding of how mathematical disease models are created. In a second activity, students use real world health data and a computer data visualization tool to discover trends about malaria. This activity was developed with NIMBioS collaborator <a href=\"http:\/\/handsonclassrooms.org\/\">Hands On<\/a>, and tested with <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/06\/high-school-scholars-visit-nimbios\/\" target=\"_blank\">high school students and teachers visiting NIMBioS<\/a> for the 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/jshs-tn.utk.edu\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Junior Science and Humanities Symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more education modules that bring together math and biology, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/education\/modules\" target=\"_blank\">NIMBioS education module page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematics helps scientists fight disease &#8211;that&#8217;s the subject of a new NIMBioS education module recently posted on our website.\u00a0 In the module, students use manipulatives (beans in a cup) to simulate a disease outbreak and to help develop an understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/31\/new-education-module-on-mathematics-of-disease\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,14,30],"tags":[16,102,101,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}