Math Anxiety Questions and Tips part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
Questions Students don't panic in the grocery store or when they play electronic games, so why do they panic in class? The issue may not be anxiety or inability, but the motivation to use math appropriately. ...

Characteristics of Well-designed Activities part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2005
1. ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT The more students are actively engaged with their own learning, the more they learn. Students learn better when they are presented with problems that interest them and when they are provided ...

News and Events part of Quantitative Skills:Community
Current News and Events Jump down to Past Events. Upcoming Virtual EDDIE Workshop at AGU: Building Quantitative Literacy Through Science, Education, and Art Are you excited to support your students in developing ...

A Workshop: Developing Quantitative Activities for Upper Division Geoscience Students part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2005
Annual workshop bringing together mathematicians and geoscientists in order to examine various approaches to quantitative reasoning. Resulted in a peer-reviewed online publication.

Metacognition part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2005
As you read some expository text, you may reach a point at which your understanding becomes fuzzy; you decide to either reread the text or stop and work out some illustrative examples to make sure you've ...

Community part of Quantitative Skills:Community
There is an extensive community of educators and researchers concerned with how we teach and learn quantitative skills. News and Events See all the current news and events related to teaching quantitative ...

Preparations part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2004
We are very excited about having you here in Northfield July 14-17 to work on materials for teaching quantitative skills. This page provides some additional information about both travel plans and the materials ...

Browse Activity Submissions part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
These activities are currently under development by workshop participants. Tested versions will be available soon. Prework for Rivers and Streams Lab (Intro Geology) from Rachel Teasdale, California State ...

Using Google Earth to Teach Geosciences Quantitatively part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
See Peter Selkin's pagethat came out of the workshop. Participant Peter Selkin conducted a very informative session about the Google Earth application and how it can be used in geoscience classes both ...

GIS part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
Rob Benson (participant) has been ESRI Instructor for years. No need for a GIS degree - it has gotten integrated - he is trying to get GIS components into each course. GIS has gotten easier to use, 2 ½ week ...