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  1. 2013-Brian_Winkel-Reflecting_On_Walls

    10 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Brian Winkel

    SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

    We reflect on our passion for teaching mathematics, useful mathematics, byconsidering our understandings of just what a wall is and what a wall means tous.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3776/?v=1

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

    23 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

    Tri-County Technical College

    Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=2

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

    09 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Paul Miller

    Everett Community College

    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...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3679/?v=1

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

    01 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

    Tri-County Technical College

    Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=1

  5. Exploring Interdisciplinary Professional Development Opportunities through the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges QB@CC Project

    19 Jul 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Irene Corriette1, Sheela Vemu2

    1. Santa Fe College 2. Waubonsee Community College - Tenure Track and Northern Illinois University

    The Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) project provides a platform for open education resource (OER) development. Biology and mathematics faculty collaborate, create, and publish...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3470/?v=1

  6. Using Grassy Narrows in a Live Classroom with Clicker Questions and Interactive Histogram: Sampling Distributions, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing

    24 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jonathan Andrew Akin

    Northwestern State University of Louisiana

    Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions, p-values, and hypothesis testing. Using both simulated and real data for methylmercury level in fish populations, students will...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3249/?v=1

  7. The Mathematics of Voting Systems: Plurality, Runoff and Ranked Choice

    11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Tess Hick

    Bates College

    In this five-day interdisciplinary math and social studies unit, students use math to create informed opinions about the three most common voting systems in the United States: plurality, runoff and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2916/?v=1

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

    03 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Irene Corriette1, Beatriz Gonzalez1, Daniela Kitanska2, Henriette Mozsolits2, Sheela Vemu3

    1. Santa Fe College 2. Passaic County Community College 3. Waubonsee Community College

    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...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2811/?v=1

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

    28 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Alida Janmaat1, Pete Kaslik2, Randall LaRue Moser Jr, Kevin David Simpson, Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo3

    1. University of the Fraser Valley 2. Pierce College 3. Alfred University

    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...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2434/?v=1

  10. LearnR Apps

    15 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Derek Edward Sollberger

    UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

    Presentation on using the LearnR software in teaching. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2471/?v=1

  11. Quantitative Reasoning: Peer Review 16(3), 2014

    25 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Shelly Johnson Carey

    In this issue of the journal Peer Review, the authors discuss the issues surrounding quantitative literacy.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/862/?v=1

  12. Linear Models and Linear Mixed Effects in R: Tutorial 1

    20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Bodo Winter

    University of California, Merced

    The first of two tutorials that introduce you to linear and linear mixed models.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/832/?v=1

  13. Introductory Science and Mathematics Education for 21st-Century Biologists

    20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By William Bialek1, David Botstein2

    1. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA., Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. 2. Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA., Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

    A unified introductory science curriculum that fully incorporates mathematics and quantitative thinking aimed to incorporate biology into the traditional quantitative cultures that have come to...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/830/?v=1

  14. Wellesley College Study Packet for the Quantitative Reasoning Assessment

    11 Sep 2018 | Teaching Materials

    This packet contains a set of 24 practice questions and 2 full-length practice assessments for the Quantitative Reasoning Assessment for Wellesley College.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/782/?v=1

  15. BSHS Calculus 2

    23 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Claudia Neuhauser

    University of Minnesota

    Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course introduces linear transformations, ordinary differential equations, basic...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/751/?v=1

  16. SUMS4Bio - Video tutorials in math and stats for biology students

    22 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jeremy M Wojdak1, Caleb Adams1, Dan Metz1

    Radford University

    Links to videos and pdf tutorials for core mathematical and statistical concepts used in biology

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/747/?v=1

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

    02 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sam S Donovan1, Carrie Diaz Eaton2, Tom Gower3, Kristin Jenkins4, Drew LaMar5, DorothyBelle Poli6, Bob Sheehy7, Jeremy M Wojdak7

    1. University of Pittsburgh 2. Unity College 3. North Carolina State University 4. BioQUEST 5. College of William and Mary 6. Roanoke College 7. Radford University

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

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/226/?v=1