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    Stress and Strain part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: trigonometry, graphing by Dr. Carol Ormand (University of Wisconsin - Madison) and Dr. Eric Baer (Highline Community College) Jump down to: Stress, strain, & structures | Conditions ...

    Understanding Trends part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Related quantitative concepts: Basic graphing skills, Interpolation/Extrapolation, Functions', Graph Significance, Graphing confusion by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ...

    How big was that quake? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: probablility, recurrence intervals, logarithms by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Essential Concepts Generally there are several main concepts that our students ...

    Population growth part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: big numbers, exponential growth and decay by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Jump down to: Resource Use | Exponential Growth | Prediction | ...

    by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    What is scientific notation? The concept of very large or very small numbers is something that is difficult for many students to comprehend. In general, students have difficulty with two things when dealing with ...

    Deep Time - the geologic time scale part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: big numbers, exponential growth and decay by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Jump down to: Relative vs. Numerical age | Timescales | How do we know? | ...

    Teaching quantitative concepts in floods and flooding part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: probability,recurrence intervals, rates by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Jump down to: Rating Curves | Inundation | Flood forecasts | Resources and activities ...

    Teaching recurrence intervals part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: probability by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Jump down to:randomness | forecasting vs. recurrence | How to calculate | Teaching Examples and Resources ...

    Cumulative percent graphs: Teaching the hypsometric curve and more part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Quantitative concepts: Graph Reading, Basic Graphing Skills, Why do geologists use graphs? by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Jump down to: How to read | What the graph shows | Why is ...

    Basic Graphing Skills part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
    Related quantitative concepts: Understanding trends, Interpolation/Extrapolation, Functions, Graph Significance, Graphing confusion Related quantitative concepts: Understanding trends, Interpola or skills we ...