High School Students Learn College-Level Applied Mathematics
51ÂÜÀòmath faculty members offer applied math workshop to 12 Mount Hope High School students over summer
BRISTOL, R.I. – For one week this summer at 51ÂÜÀò, a group of high school students learned how math can be used in the real world. Twelve students from Mount Hope High School participated in a 40-hour, intensive workshop taught by 51ÂÜÀòmath faculty members.
Sounds a little dry, right? But during that week, the students interacted with math through fun, hands-on lessons and used real data to apply math toward solving actual issues in biomedical, statistics and engineering. Working with computer programming and modeling software, they hypothesized and tested model safety braking systems for vehicles, examined how neurotransmitters in the brain fire in patients Parkinson’s disease, and compared the dynamics of competing populations and how they grow together.
At the conclusion of the Mathematical Biology, Engineering and Applied Statistics workshop, which was funded by a civic grant RWU’s Fund for Civic Activities, the 12 students presented their research to school administrators from Mount Hope High School and earned one college credit.