Intro to BIOMAAP - Faculty Math Anxiety Overview

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4GB04

This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minute-1 hour presentation to introduce faculty or other instructors to the idea of math anxiety and some strategies they can use in their own courses.

Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4BH91

This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.

Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Introduction

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q49X3K

This presentation is intended as a short, in-class introduction to the program and some of the research behind it, in hopes of generating ‘buy in’ for a course-long use of BIOMAAP materials.

Math anxiety and attitudes in biology undergraduate students

19 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4211P

Session presentation for BIOMAAP at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

Introduction to Growth Mindset

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q46T5C

This module introduces students to the research supporting ‘growth mindset,’ the idea that you can increase your brainpower and ability through effort

Figure of the Day

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4M13D

Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.

Assessment

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4QT4N

This can be given at the beginning and end of the BIOMAAP program, in order to measure student changes in math anxiety.

Answer Checking

03 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4VH9P

This activity provides students with a set of strategies they can use to check their own answers in their biology and other courses. Students practice the answer checking strategies on a series of simple examples.

Phenotypic plasticity and predation

24 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Justin Touchon | doi:10.25334/Q4GX34

Students predict changes to tadpole morphology and coloration after considering characteristics of the predator species and the prey themselves then test their own hypotheses (typically with t-tests or ANOVA) by collecting novel data via image...

Dendroclimatology

24 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, R. S. Maxwell | doi:10.25334/Q40T5H

Dendroclimatologists can reconstruct climate records further into the past than written records, by examining tree rings. Students "reverse-engineer" this process by considering growth rates of a tree species in response to various...

3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction

24 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Kerri-Ann Norton | doi:10.25334/Q4899B

This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.

Leaf cutter ant foraging

24 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Justin Touchon, Myra Hughey | doi:10.25334/Q4RB0M

This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.

2014 QUBES Minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Jeremy M Wojdak, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Sam S Donovan, Kristin Jenkins, Tom Gower | doi:10.25334/Q4JM3N

Collection of presentations that were part of a minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research in 2014.

AIMS- Analyzing Images to learn Mathematics and Statistics - studying leaf cutter ants to learn linear regression

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q44H48

This is a teaching resource that uses fascinating images and videos of leaf cutter ants foraging in Panama to provide an engaging context for students to learn about mathematics and statistics.

Essay to students about the fallacy of fixed math ability

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4D10D

Essay written in 2014 for freshmen in an intro bio course on the fallacy of fixed math ability

Using gross parasites to sneak even grosser equations into the introductory biology classroom

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4F09S

This was an oral presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists in Omaha, NE.

A collaborative approach to quantitative biology course reform: It's better than doing it all by yourself

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4PH3V

This is the abstract of an oral presentation given at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA in 2015.

Two themes, one talk: Distributing quantitative faculty expertise to classrooms that need it in real-time & measuring professional contributions to undergraduate education

02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins | doi:10.25334/Q4G093

Presentation given at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA. Discussing quantitative biology education.

QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology

02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4H09D

This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.

QUBES: Supporting faculty in the teaching of mathematical biology

22 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4HX09

Abstract for a presentation that was part of a minisymposium at SMB 2015.

Faculty Mentoring Networks: A model for professional development in undergraduate quantitative biology education

20 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Melissa Aikens, Sam S Donovan, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Alison N Hale, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Kristin Jenkins, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4MX07

Presentation given at ESA 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks.

Faculty Mentoring Networks: A Model for Promoting Teaching Scholarship in Quantitative Biology Education

20 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Jeremy M Wojdak, Kristin Jenkins | doi:10.25334/Q4D96F

Presentation given at NABT 2016 on Faculty Mentoring Networks and teaching scholarship in quantitative biology education.

QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education

14 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Jeremy M Wojdak, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q44T0V

QUBES is designed to improve communication among educators, assist faculty in understanding and implementing novel content and teaching strategies in their classrooms, and create an academic reward system that emphasizes teaching as well as research.

Analyzing interesting images motivates mathematics and statistics learning

15 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4Z66C

Presentation by Jeremy Wojdak made as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017, Portland Oregon