Educational_Outreach_Activities-Playing_OR_Games

Educational Outreach Activities:

Playing OR Games!

Paul Harper, Vincent Knight, Louise Orpin

Overview

OR Society stretch goal

"Every secondary school student to know what Operational Research is."

Education Officer

Two examples

Dominant strategies

Some data

Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament

Rules of the game

• If the combined score of the 2 dice is greater than 10 (i.e. equals 11 or 12), then the susceptible student becomes infected (i.e. the disease has just been transmitted!) and stands behind their chair.
• This is repeated until the one initial infected student has rolled dice with all the students.
• If the total of 2 rolls is 5, then the student recovers and moves to the side of the room and plays no further part in the game.

Theoretical explanation

S ’ = - bSI

I ’ = bSI - rI

R ’ = rI

OR Ambassadors in Schools

Conclusions

• learnaboutor.co.uk
• Results from 2/3rds of the average game
• Epidemiology exercise
• ORAiS

Questions?

+Paul Harper

+Vincent Knight

+Louise Oprin