Projects part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Projects Darcys Law (Acrobat (PDF) 246kB Jan20 04) for Multiple Levels in Math and Geoscience Courses, Steve Leonhardi, Cathy Summa Developing Regional Curves (Acrobat (PDF) 115kB Jan20 04) of Stream Hydraulic ...

Program guide part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Wednesday, July 24 1:00-5:00 p.m. Participants check in, Nourse Hall Lounge 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner, Alumni Guest House 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Opening Remarks:Cathy Manduca, Science Education Resource ...

July 26th Morning Discussion Notes part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
How can we best prepare geoscience students with the quantitative skills they need? What are the roles of math (skills?) and geology (application?)? How do we coordinate and not have gaps? Repetition and pervasive ...

7-26 AM Posters part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Rate of Change Strategies that Work: Use familiar concepts (e.g. speed, human growth) to start Emphasize proper units/magnitude Move from verbal to data table to plot to equation Move from linear to non-linear ...

Session Descriptions part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Session Descriptions Wednesday, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m., Opening Plenary Quantitative Skills in Multiple Contexts: Learning to Communicate Janet Andersen, Department of Mathematics, Hope College Abstract: Many students ...

Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Geoscience Context: A Workshop for Faculty Teaching Geosciences and Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
First annual workshop bringing together mathematicians and geoscientists in order to examine various approaches to quantitative reasoning.

Group Presentations part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Quantitative Problems with GPS Connect Field and Lab M. Jordan, B. Kerbert, V. Schielack Mapping: Calculations of length, scale, area resolution—geometry Surveying: trig problems = surveying Average ...

7/25 PM Presentations—Posters part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Geologic Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Shapiro, Ford, Capehart Linear algebra, radiation transfer, image processing, programming Deriving U and V components from radial doppler [relocates?] Pythagorean theorum, ...

A List of Mathematical Topics part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
These are the topics covered in a variety of geology courses and are organized by the math courses where students first experience them. This list may be surprising to some geoscientists as we often assume that ...

Summary of Discussion surrounding "A Geoscience versus a Mathematical Approach to Problem Solving" part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Small groups of geologists and mathematicians were given a map of Lake Erie with depths shown in different colors. Each group was asked to discuss ways to go about calculating the volume of the lake. Not ...