Modelling harvesting animal population at high school with spreadsheets – the case of Moby Dick

The paper gives the results of an experiment in which harvesting the world population of the Sperm whale was modelled and analyzed with 27 high school students of age 18-19 by using the Euler method of solving differential equations in Excel. A questionnaire survey was carried out to find out the op...

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Main Authors: Benacka, Jan, Ceretkova, Sona
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: ePublications@bond 2014
Subjects:
differential equation
Euler method
Excel
harvesting model
species extinction
Mathematics
Biology
Sperm whale
Online Access:http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol7/iss3/3
http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1170&context=ejsie
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Summary:The paper gives the results of an experiment in which harvesting the world population of the Sperm whale was modelled and analyzed with 27 high school students of age 18-19 by using the Euler method of solving differential equations in Excel. A questionnaire survey was carried out to find out the opinion of the students of the lesson. The results are discussed.

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