Math Your Students Need Survey

Thank you for agreeing to help us with the development of this project. We would like feedback on the types of modules that would be most useful to faculty and instructors teaching introductory geoscience courses with a quantitative component. Thank you again for your time!

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Possible Module topics

We have compiled a list of quantitative topics topics that we feel might come up in introductory geoscience courses.

From the list below, please select any topics that have relevance to your introductory geoscience course. You may select more than one.

Adding and subtracting time/degree measurements
Approximation and Estimation
Basics of graphs
Big numbers
Cumulative Percent graphs
Density
Error calculation
Field Diagrams (e.g., metamorphic facies)
Graphs with more than one concept illustrated (e.g., basalt melting curves)
Histograms
Hypsometric Curve
Linear (simple x-y) plots
Math of Fractions and Ratios
Mean, Median, Mode
Powers of ten
Precision and accuracy
Probability
Propagation of Error
Radiometric Dating
Rates/time
Ratios and percentages
Reading a table/mineral ID
Rearranging equations
Recurrence interval
Residence Time
Scale/scaling
Significant Figures
Slopes/Gradients
Trigonometry
Unit conversions
Units and Unitless numbers
Other
If you checked "Other", please use this space to elaborate on the skill(s) we missed in our list!

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Would you be interested in helping us to test these modules in your courses?
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