Japan Journal of Mathematics Education and Related Fields
Online ISSN : 2434-8899
Print ISSN : 1349-7332
Change in the number of individuals of Japanese crane and a logistic curve
From interdisciplinary colaborative education with a theme of "Environment"
Yoshio Umeno
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2009 Volume 50 Issue 1-2 Pages 5-13

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In our college, some subjects teach it by the theme of enviornment at the same time, which we say "Interdisciplinary Colaborative Education". In the class of mathematics, we analyzed the change in the number of individuals of the Japanese crane by the difference equation, and we confirmed that the change applied to the logistic curve. Moreover, we illustrated that the logistic curve appeared in the various scenes, and we developed it into chaos phenomena. A lot of students were surprised that mathematics was effective for such a natural world, in the following questionnaires. In this paper, we shall consider the mathematics knowledge needed in this teaching material, and the meaning of taking up such real data in the class.
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© 2009 Mathematics Education Society of Japan
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