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Yan, Xiaoeheng; Jungic, Veselin – PRIMUS, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic provided students a rare opportunity to use their mathematical knowledge to make sense of a top-of-mind crisis. Based on a report in a major regional newspaper, we designed tasks that require an understanding of infection rates and an interpretation of a misleading claim made in the newspaper. Our analysis of 91 undergraduate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Incidence, Calculus