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### Educational Outreach Activities: ### Playing OR Games!

Paul Harper, Vincent Knight, Louise Orpin

### Overview 1. ORiS 2. Prisoner's Dilemma 3. Epidemiology

### OR Society **stretch** goal `"Every secondary school student to know what Operational Research is."`

### Education Officer

### LearnaboutOR.co.uk - [Website](http://learnaboutor.co.uk/) - [G+: learnaboutor](https://plus.google.com/112753487922556467700/posts) - [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2VzJB3RCb_V5fBIlH017A) - [Twitter: @learnaboutor](https://twitter.com/LearnAboutOR)

### [learnaboutor.co.uk](http://learnaboutor.co.uk)

### [G+: +learnaboutor](http://plus.google.com/112753487922556467700)

### [Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS2VzJB3RCb_V5fBIlH017A)

### [@LearnAboutOR](https://twitter.com/LearnAboutOR)

### Two examples 1. Game Theory using the Prisoner's Dilemma 2. Epidemiology using dice

### Dominant strategies ![](./images/dominatedstrategies.gif)

### Some data ![](./images/somedata.png)

### Golden Balls ![](images/goldenballs.png)

### Golden Balls

### Prisoner's Dilemma Tournament ![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XCqaQWckHx8/TyG4nKcg1LI/AAAAAAAAJyU/IaEvwGk38Yw/s320/IMG_0864.jpg)

### Coalition ![](./images/coalition.jpg)

### Coalition

### Epidemiology ![](./images/contagion.jpg)

### Epidemiology

### 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.

### Gloucester ![](./images/gloucester.png)

### Gloucester

### Theoretical explanation _S ’ = - bSI_ _I ’ = bSI - rI_ _R ’ = rI_

### Results [

](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aud1Zok_OeUOdF9vRHE2T3JhRG9JMl9sQnFuMmZKaXc#gid=0)

### Spreadsheet Tool

### OR Ambassadors in Schools

### Conclusions - [learnaboutor.co.uk](http://learnaboutor.co.uk/) - Results from 2/3rds of the average game - Epidemiology exercise - ORAiS

### Questions?

[+Paul Harper](https://plus.google.com/u/0/103137876942082024919/posts) [+Vincent Knight](https://plus.google.com/u/0/110464871801965858778/posts) [+Louise Oprin](https://plus.google.com/u/0/117482832260700056568/posts)