{"id":69776,"date":"2015-04-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=aad78713281aee3925c6ea0999f9f855"},"modified":"2015-04-01T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"bringing-partial-differential-equations-to-life-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=69776","title":{"rendered":"Bringing partial differential equations to life for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching partial differential equations (PDEs) carries inherent difficulties that an interactive<br \/>\nvisualization might help overcome in an active learning process. However, the generation of this<br \/>\nkind of teaching material implies serious difficulties, mainly in terms of coding efforts. This work<br \/>\ndescribes how to use an authoring tool, Easy Java Simulations, to build interactive simulations<br \/>\nusing FreeFem++ (Hecht F 2012 J. Numer. Math. 20 [http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1515\/jnum-2012-0013] 251 ) as<br \/>\na PDE solver engine. It makes possible to build simulations where students can change parameters,<br \/>\nthe geometry and the equations themselves getting an immediate feedback. But it is also possible for<br \/>\nthem to edit the simulations to set deeper changes. The process is ilustrated with some basic<br \/>\nexamples. These simulations show PDEs in a pedagogic manner and can be tuned by no experts in the<br \/>\nfield, teachers or students. Finally, we report a classroom experience and a survey fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching partial differential equations (PDEs) carries inherent difficulties that an interactive<br \/>\nvisualization might help overcome in an active learning process. However, the generation of this<br \/>\nkind of teaching material implies serious difficulties, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}