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It's a Connected World: The Beauty of Network Science
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Jenkinson, Garrett Goutsias, John Frennesson, Susan Jenkinson, Debbie Stuart |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. An illustrative example shows how a random process can be used to represent the spread of an infectious disease, such as the flu, on a social network of students, and demonstrates how scientists and engineers use mathematics and computers to model and simulate random processes on complex networks for the purposes of learning more about our world and creating solutions to improve our health, happiness and safety. Students learn about complex networks and how to use graphs to represent them. They also learn that graph theory is a useful part of mathematics for studying complex networks in diverse applications of science and engineering, including neural networks in the brain, biochemical reaction networks in cells, communication networks, such as the internet, and social networks. Students are also introduced to random processes on networks. An illustrative example shows how a random process can be used to represent the spread of an infectious disease, such as the flu, on a social network of students, and demonstrates how scientists and engineers use mathematics and computers to model and simulate random processes on complex networks for the purposes of learning more about our world and creating solutions to improve our health, happiness and safety. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado The Johns Hopkins University |
| Subject Keyword | Biology Life Science Problem Solving Science and Technology Disease Probability Simulation Facebook Neuron Randomness Complex Networks Brain Network Social Network Spread of Disease Interaction Internet |
| Content Type | Text |
| Education Level | Class VII Class VIII Class IX Class X |
| Resource Type | Syllabus |
| Subject | Biology Technical |
