A Systematic Approach to Teaching Abstraction and Mathematical Modeling Svetlana V. Drachova, Jason O. Hallstrom Joseph E. Hollingsworth, David P. Jacobs, Joan Krone, and Murali Sitaraman Technical Report RSRG-11-02 School of Computing 100 McAdams Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-0974 USA September 2011 Copyright © 2011 by the authors. All rights reserved.