Metacognition part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Metacognition
Developed by participants at the 2005 Workshop 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 ...

Student Frame of Reference and Experience part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Back of the Envelope Calculations
Students' Frame of Reference Students are personally familiar with and can easily visualize: Time periods in seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years (decades to centuries) Horizontal distances ranging from a ...

Precision and Accuracy part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Understanding Uncertainty
Precision and accuracy are often used synonymously but they are in fact different things. It is possible to have very precise measurements that are not at all accurate. Here's a good example to share with ...

Teaching With Equations part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Equations
What does that equation mean? Jennifer Wenner, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Anthony Hansen, St. Cloud State University Increase students' comfort ...

Examples part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC
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Teaching With Equations part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Equations
What does that equation mean? Jennifer Wenner, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Anthony Hansen, St. Cloud State University in conjunction with the 2004 ...

Graphical Representation part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Equations
One technique for helping students understand the role of variables and parameters in an equation is to explore graphical representations. Several computer programs are commercially available for this purpose ...

Appropriate Representation of Numbers part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Understanding Uncertainty
Everyone agrees it is Africa's most populous nation. But what is its population? The United Nations says 114 million; the State Department, 120 million. The World Bank says 126.9 million, while the Central ...

Mathematical and Statistical Models Exampels part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Mathematical and Statistical Models
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Browse Examples part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching with Data
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