Monday, July 7, 2008
Day 15- Starting week 4
Today I started in the CBP with a bit more stress than usual. I have realized how close to an end we are with our time at ASU, but I am still struggling with the concepts of my research and how to apply this in the classroom. Today's lecture was given by Dr. Arjan van der Vaart. He gave us a deeper understanding of molecular dynamics and the reason for doing this rather than lab research. Some of the benefits include cost, rarity of certain materials, prevention of exposure to dangerous chemicals, and more detail into changes that happen over such a short period of time that they would not be readily observed in an experiment. We have started to form groups and will decide on researchers tomorrow, which gives me hope for completing our project in a way that it will truly help my students to understand the practical applications of geometry and algebra in the fields of science, primarily physics and biology.
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Hi Meghan
You've had quite a number of eye opening talks about the importantce of geometric considerations throughout the time in BP.
I'm glad the mentor teachers are also starting to share visualization of the concept of rigidity vs flexibility of these structures and what that means.
See you later
Janet
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