Site Guide: Quantitative Skills, Thinking, and Reasoning

Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences: This website provides information on the issues involved in teaching quantitative skills and methods and activities for doing so as well as additional resources and a community of other faculty who are all attempting this challenging task.
Carleton's Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (QuIRK) Inititative - QuIRK is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary effort at Carleton College to address quantitative issues across the curriculum. The initiative runs campus events and makes resources available to the campus community as well as the broader public.
Teaching with Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum - Teaching with Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum uses modules with short PowerPoint presentations to guide students to build spreadsheets to solve one or more mathematical problems in the context of their courses. The students determine the cell equations that produce the calculated numbers shown on the spreadsheets. Examples are provided.
Quantitative Writing - This module is part of Starting Point and provides information, tutorials, and examples that aid in using quantitative writing in the classroom. Quantitative writing tasks students with analyzing and interpreting numbers and data through writing to bring meaning to the data.
Mathematics and Statistical Models - This module provides basic information about mathematical and statistical models, how they can be used in the classroom, and provides activity examples that utilize both.
Making and Testing Conjectures - This site, part of the CAUSE project, provides basic information about conjectures and why/how they can be utilized in the classroom as an effective way to engage students and to develop their reasoning skills. Example activities, mainly related to statistics, are also provided.
National Numeracy Network - This organization offers its members a network of individuals, institutions, and corporations united by the common goal of quantitative literacy for all citizens. Through national meetings, faculty workshops, research initiatives, and information sharing, the National Numeracy Network aims to strengthen the capacity of our country in the quantitative areas of business, industry, education, and research across all disciplines. This site includes access to the NNN journal, teaching resources, and other information about NNN.
Keyah Math - The Keyah Math Project has developed a series of versatile online activities in mathematical geoscience, using the natural and cultural landscapes of the Southwest United States as context and setting. These place-based exercises are available to enhance any undergraduate geoscience course, and may be of particular interest to students and teachers with cultural ties to the Southwest, including American Indian and Hispanic students and teachers.
Math You Need - The Math You Need, When You Need It modules cover quantitative topics that are important in introductory geoscience courses. Each topic includes a page for the instructor, quantitative information for the students, a set of practice problems and culminates in an on-line quiz that is automatically graded and submitted to the instructor. The project is designed to give students the quantitative knowledgethat they need, just before they need to use it in their concurrent geoscience course. This program includes pre- and post-testing and self-paced modules.
DataCounts! Exploring Society by the Numbers - DataCounts! is an interactive website designed to help integrate social statistics into the classroom setting. The site provides access to several collections of data and houses a collection of teaching modules that have been created by teachers across the country to integrate social science data into their classes.