Activity Description Experiment with a simple ecosystem consisting of grass, rabbits, and wolves, learning about probabilities, chaos, and simulation.

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Rabbits and Wolves

Place in mathematics curriculum:

• demonstrate randomness
• motivate the ideas of chaos

This activity allows the user to simulate how nature keeps its balance. This applet shows how wolves and rabbits would behave in their natural setting. This activity would work well in groups of two to four for about thirty minutes if you use the exploration questions and ten to fifteen minutes otherwise.

Preparations for this activity:

This activity can be used to:

• answer the question "Why does the bunny population grow so fast?"
• discuss randomness, chaos, and probability