Regression: Tree Rings and Measuring Things

Students develop scatter plots of growth rings by tree diameters and determine the equation of their best fit line.

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Pain Medication Treatment Modeling Project

This classroom modeling project applies mathematical techniques to solve a problem related to drug dosage patterns. Suitable for high school or undergraduate students. Prerequisite: Calculus I.

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Why does Blood Flow Change? Investigating the Math of Blood Flow Dynamics

This collection of activities explores the relationship between blood flow, pressure, and the factors of resistance through graphs and modeling direct and inverse variation.

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Circle Train Math Modeling Task

This math modeling task is appropriate for high school Precalculus students. The students use their knowledge of transformations of trigonometric functions to create models for horizontal and vertical positions of a toy train moving on a circular track.

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Math and Stats in the Biology Classroom with HHMI BioInteractive

Conquer basic math and statistics used in biology while exploring classroom-ready resources. Concepts include central tendency and variation, spreadsheet skills, graphing, and data analysis with Chi-Square and T-Tests

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Mathematics for Biologists Problem Workbook

This is a workbook of solved problems created by Dr. Juergen Gerlach at Radford University

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Coral Reefs in Hot Water

Students analyze sea surface temperature (SST) data from NOAA to predict coral bleaching at four locations in the Bahamas. They then compare their predictions to authentic research collected about coral mortality and temperature fluctuations

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The Chi-Square Test

This module introduces how to determine whether observation is significantly different from expectation in the context of understanding Chi-square Test. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

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Basic Statistics

The students will practice identifying the appropriate basic statistical tests when given a scenario and learn how to run and interpret those statistical tests in R.

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Infectious Chocolate Joy with a Side of Poissonian Statistics: An activity connecting life science students with subtle physics concepts

Lesson on what it means for biological processes to be Poissonian, published in CourseSource

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Chi-squared test of independence between two categorical variables

In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to work through a chi-squared test of independence between two categorical variables.

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Teaching biostatistics using the Rule of Four

A guide to helping intro bio students develop a deeper understanding of key statistical concepts by translating among numeric, graphical, verbal, and symbolic representations.

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Choosing healthy data for healthy relationships: how to use 5-point summaries, box and whisker plots, and correlation to understand global health trends.

This module utilizes a user-friendly database exploring data selection, box-and-whisker plot, and correlation analysis. It also guides students on how to make a poster of their data and conclusions.

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Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: The Central Limit Theorem and a t-test

Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions and hypothesis testing using a simulation applet, elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish population for methylmercury levels (using real and hypothetical data) against real-world mercury standards.

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Math and Stats in the Biology Classroom with HHMI BioInteractive

Conquer basic math and statistics used in biology while exploring classroom-ready resources. Concepts include central tendency and variation, spreadsheet skills, graphing, and data analysis with Chi-Square and T-Tests

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Linear Regression (Excel) and Cellular Respiration for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics

Students typically find linear regression analysis of data sets in a biology classroom challenging. These activities could be used in a Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Statistics course. The collection provides student activity files with Excel instructions and Instructor Activity files with Excel instructions and solutions to problems. Students will be able to perform linear regression analysis, find correlation coefficient, create a scatter plot and find the r-square using MS Excel 365. Students will be able to interpret data sets, describe the relationship between biological variables, and predict the value of an output variable based on the input of an predictor variable.

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Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

Students are introduced to concepts of hypothesis testing using elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish population for methylmercury levels (using real and hypothetical data) against real-world mercury standards.

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

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.

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statsTeachR

statsTeachR is an open-access, online repository of modular lesson plans, a.k.a. "modules", for teaching statistics using R at the undergraduate and graduate level.

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Modernizing Statistics Education via Biology Applications

Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

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