References

Developing Analytical and Communication Skills in a Mock-Trial Course Based on the Famous Woburn, Massachusetts Case part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article discusses a mock trial in which undergraduates serve as expert witnesses and law students serve as their attorneys. The article identifies the trial as an effective vehicle for ...

Reinforcing quantitative skills with applied research on tombstone-weathering rates part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This Journal of Geoscience Education article describes a tombstone weathering exercise that reinforces quantitative skills with applied research. The article describes an exercise designed and ...

Shaping the Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (NSF 96-139) part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This report provides guidelines for more effective use of the investments made by individuals, organizations, and agencies seeking to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, ...

Using and Understanding Mathematics - A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, Second Edition part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Aimed at students majoring in nonmathematical fields--particularly those who feel some anxiety about math--this textbook focuses on the practical applications of mathematics in college, career, and ...

Numeracy: Imperatives of a Forgotten Goal part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The author describes three different situations in which we use our quantitative skills: 1) Computational Situations-where a number is the desired result, 2) Decision-making Situations-where ...

Integrating the Teaching of Quantitative Skills Across the Geology Curriculum in a Department part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Abstract: One approach to teaching quantitative skills to all students in a department is to construct a matrix of the desired quantitative skills versus courses in the departmental curriculum. ...

Building the Quantitative Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This issue of the Journal of Geoscience Education was devoted to articles bearing on the teaching of Quantitative Skills in Undergraduate Geoscience Classes.

Building the Quantitative Skill of Non-Majors and Majors in Geoscience Courses part of SERC Print Resource Collection

Building the Quantitative Skills of Non-Majors and Majors in Earth and Planetary Science Courses part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This workshop explored the issue of quantitative skills in introductory geoscience curricula in terms of the needs and perspectives of a variety of institutions. Its aims included spotlighting models ...

Reports from the Curriculum Foundations Project, from workshops conducted by The CUPM subcommittee on Calculus Reform and the First Two Years (CRAFTY) part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) subcommittee Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years (CRAFTY) has gathered input from partner disciplines through a series of ...