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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quantitative Literacy/Quantitative Reasoning part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
The definition of quantitative literacy is like greywacke - it's ambiguous. quantitative literacy and quantitative reasoning and numeracy are synonymous; numeracy is a British term that's probably been ...

Infusing Quantitative Literacy into Introductory Geoscience Courses Workshop part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
Workshop in which high school and college educators worked to understand the obstacles to the teaching of quantitative literacy and developed strategies for bringing quantitative literacy into introductory geoscience classes. Presentations, discussions, and findings from the workshop are all available online.

Participant Activities part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2004
Skip to search results Skip to search facet filtersSkip to paginationRefine the Results↓ SubjectBiology 1 match Environmental Science 4 matches Geoscience 9 matches Mathematical SkillsCalculus and ...

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 ...

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 ...