as you know, when a course ends, students start to forget the material they have learned.

by Bridie Block 7 min read

As you know, when a course ends, students start to forget the material they have learned. One model (called the Ebbinghaus model) assumes that the rate at which a student forgets material is proportional to the difference between the material currently remembered and some positive constant, a

As you know, when a course ends, students start to forget the material they have learned. One model (called the Ebbinghaus model) assumes that the rate at which a student forgets material is proportional to the difference between the material currently remembered and some positive constant, a.

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As you know, when a course ends, students start to forget the material they have learned. One model (called the Ebbinghaus model) assumes that the rate at which a student forgets material is proportional to the difference between the material currently remembered and some positive constant, a.

Differential Equations

One of the things that makes calculus so cool is how much we can do with it! In this interesting little application, we will model our own forgetfulness. To do so we will stumble across a separable differential equation.

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