Euler's method and examples of equations of change in biology! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.093/n #year5

Excited to be starting to make the case for broader expansion of our project! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.092/n #year5

#ChestertheCheetah 's final sprint: The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. Plus feedbacks in biological models. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.091/n #year5

Obviously we will make these colours colorblind-friendly but for now the xylophone rainbow delights me. Another look at this weekend's data on kleptokaryon decay over starvation time in #karmachamaeleon. #figaday 5.090/n #year5

Cleaned up from yesterday showing #karmachamaeleon progressive loss of nuclei and changes in plastid morphology with starvation. #figaday 5.089/n #year5

#ScopeSaturday. M. chamaeleon in an increasingly starved state. Properly processed images to come. #figaday 5.088/n #year5

Quietly measuring cells in the background... Three more sets of bacteria to go to complete this dataset. #figaday 5.087/n #year5

Year 5 carried out a water resistance investigation today to see which shape would have the most and which would have the least water resistance.
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One of my faves today. Building Chester the Cheetah's lunchtime sprint up from acceleration to distance... and understanding why we feel like the days are getting so short, so fast right now. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.086/n #year5

I know I've posted these data before, but today #wundergrad Will and I re-coded the analysis in a much more robust way, so that he can quickly re-generate the graph as he adds more data! #figaday 5.085/n #year5

One of my favourite weeks of class -- surface area : volume scaling rules, and the start of differentiation/integration, this year featuring Chester the Cheetah. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.084/n #year5

Gelation day! #figaday 5.083/n #year5

Not quite at true "figure" stage yet, but prepping #UExM samples for #wundergrad Will and you can see the declines in phycoerythrin over time with starvation, from left to right, in our fixed samples. #figaday 5.082/n #year5

Filling in some gaps for our 5-year fungal wiretapping project. #figaday 5.081/n #year5

One of my faves. We review a whole bunch of functions, their equations, their graphs, their intercepts and limits... and then students categorize figures from the literature and come up with explanations for why biology makes these shapes! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.080/n #year5

completely drowning in administrative work (mostly hoist by my own petard, as it were) so the best i can do today is this mildly aesthetic "proof of life" showing that i do, in fact, measure bacteria sometimes (while also watching MNF -- yes eagles also having rough week). #figaday 5.079/n #year5

Linear equations, how they work, treating them as measuring accumulation of rates (prep for calculus, the mathematics of change!), and when they fail biology. #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.078/n #year5

Forgot to post this yesterday, but we're delighted by our amazing, collaborative teaching space for calculus discussion sections! #LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.077/n #year5

How annoyed do we think the undergrads are as they wait for me to painfully slowly annotate bacterial images? #figaday 5.076/n #year5

Year 5 are looking at air resistance in Science. We have planned an investigation and prepared our parachutes. Next week we will test them to see what the optimal material, parachute size and string length is. We are really excited!
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