Benjamin Bratton

Scaling sizes of sports field part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
This is a MATLAB live script that guides students to learn about the kinematics of thrown balls in various sports. It helps the students learn about simple numerical methods to solve differential equations, as well ...

Introduction to strings and DNA/protein sequence alignments part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This is problem set that helps solidify concepts of computational processing (accessing data, parsing data, visualizing data, using preconstructed tools) and sequence matching, specifically in the context of ...

Using MATLAB to understand distributions: Pokémon GO part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
This problem set will help teach students how to describe real world distributions. Data science skills that will be covered include measures of central tendency and spread, transformations of distributions, ...

Was that a vee or a nu? Challenges to collaborative learning in a virtual space part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Essays
An essay page from the Teaching Computation with MATLAB workshop series analyzing challenges in virtual collaborative learning, focusing on communication barriers and lack of shared physical spaces during remote instruction, particularly in integrated science education.

Students are not unit tests: providing assessment that is fair across students with different types of skills part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
An educational essay page from the 2018 MATLAB Workshop series discussing challenges in fairly assessing students' computational skills within interdisciplinary science courses, emphasizing non-boolean evaluation methods, partial credit strategies, collaborative problem-solving, and institutional constraints on in-class computational assessment.

Helping students tinker with the black box part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Benjamin Bratton, Molecular Biology, Princeton University The increasingly quantitative and interdisciplinary nature of biological research has led us to add a BioMath Bootcamp summer course for graduate students ...