Whether called numeracy, quantitative literacy (QL), or quantitative reasoning (QR), the infusion of quantitative materials throughout the curriculum is an imperative of higher education. This website is intended to provide a repository of resources and information for faculty from across the disciplines who are seeking to infuse numeracy into their course instruction.  (From CUNY)

The report discusses incorporating more math, physics, chemistry, engineering and computer science into classes and laboratory work and emphasizing independent research will help undergraduate education reflect real-world science. Schools, professional societies and funding agencies should develop new teaching materials and facilitate faculty collaboration.

The recommendations discussed in this report include the following action items aimed at ensuring that the vision of the conference becomes an agenda for change:

A fantastic tool to allow students to explore interesting statistical data about the world.  Allows students to ask questions, compare graphs and easily try different graphical representations.  

"Spurious Correlations was a project I (Tyler Vigen) put together as a fun way to look at correlations and to think about data. Empirical research is interesting, and I love to wonder about how variables work together. The charts on this site aren't meant to imply causation nor are they meant to create a distrust for research or even correlative data. Rather, I hope this project fosters interest in statistics and numerical research."

From the BIOMAAP project, this collection helps students identify characteristics of graphs and practice interpreting graphs in a low stakes, fun environment.

On our Data Nugget website we have a Resources page where we collect all of the great education resources that have come to our attention over the years. We'll be sure to update it with all the suggestions you share here! 

The resources are organized by the science or math concepts addressed, and we have a list of other great educational program websites.

Topics include measures of average (mean, median, and mode), variability (range and standard deviation), uncertainty (standard error and 95% confidence interval), Chi-square analysis, student t-test, Hardy-Weinberg equation, frequency calculations, and more. 

These modules introduce students (and anyone else who's interested) to the mathematical underpinnings of what they learn in introductory biology courses. But unlike a textbook, the modules are not full of equations and proofs. Instead, we try to bring math to life using intuitive approaches, everyday situations, and even humor. The modules contain hundreds of interactive activities, games, and questions. They range from the relatively simple (what to do with division) to the relatively abstruse (discrete diffusion models).

On our Data Nugget website we have a Resources page where we collect all of the great education resources that have come to our attention over the years. We'll be sure to update it with all the suggestions you share here! 

The resources are organized by the science or math concepts addressed, and we have a list of other great educational program websites.

Math hurts - if you have anxiety about it.

This is the primary lit article from the Science Daily summary Kaci posted.  

Nice article that ends with a call for growth mindset, rather than math anxiety.

The BIOMAAP program is an NSF funded project to develop materials and interventions to address math anxiety in our biology students.

Maps and data sets for use as part of the Island Biogeography module, and an Excel workbook for use as part of the SIR Build-It module.

By Kiersten Newtoff

Montgomery College

Students decipher a published graph with little supplemental information and are given more details in pieces before producing a new graph that displays the data more effectively and is easier to digest.

There are a variety of relevant education and science education journals out there. On Monday we talked about how it was nice to see methods we already implemented to be recognized as formal methods (POE, data puzzle, etc) or to read about a method that did a better job emphasizing something we already kind of did.  

Two journals from the National Science Teachers Association may be of interest: 

• The Science Teacher: the main audience is high school, but lots of relevant articles.  The Kasterns et al. paper we read this week is from this journal. 
• The Journal of College Science Teaching: specifically focused on undergraduate science teaching.  

FMN modifications of HHMI resources

Multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactives, and virtual labs for the classroom. Scientists at Work, Data Points, Case Study based activities

These three resources use large data sets from Dryad to teach ecological concepts: 1) Evolutionary trade-offs in plant structural adaptations, 2) Survivorship curves, 3) Life history traits and extinction risk. The modules are easily modified to a wide range of statistical platforms. Kaitlin and Kristine got their QUBES start in an FMN on adapting these resources. The public QUBES page has some additional resources related to these modules. 

These modules can also be run through Radiant, a web application for RStudio, through the QUBES dryadlabclass page.

By Aylin Marz, Jennifer Buntz, and Susan Meiers

Discussion questions to help guide students examining a graph of number of mitoses vs time for planaria injured or had amputations of their tails.

By Tamar Goulet and Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

Understanding the cascading effects of the transfer of maternal microbiome during a vaginal birth (vs. a c-section) to the well-being of a newborn.

By Jennifer Carmichael

San Diego Mesa College

Students learn about bottleneck events, population demographics and growth, ecological niches and competition, food chains/webs and ecological disturbances through past and current data on Gorongosa National Park.