Trigonometry and Angles part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
What's so hard about angles and trigonometry? An understanding of angles and the ability to manipulate trigonometric expressions is essential for the introductory geoscience student. Geoscientists use both of ...

Schoenfeld's Schema part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods
Based on the research on learning in mathematics, Alan Schoenfeld presents the following theoretical frame characterizing competencies in problem-solving domains: I. The knowledge base II. Problem solving ...

GEO-Logic: Stream Discharge Rates - Rappahannock River Station part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Students are asked to convert measurements in cubic feet per hour (cfh) to cubic feet per second (cfs) and then match up the names of the researchers measuring the flows at the river station with the correct flow rate and the year in which it was taken. There is also a second part in which students must graph the different flow rates with time and then answer questions by interpreting the information in the graph.

GEOLogic: Dinosaur Trackways part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Students must associate different dinosaur trackways with their locations and the rock formations containing the trackways based on clues given from various points of view.

GEO-Logic: How Much of the State is Wet part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
students are asked to match up students with their home state, and their states with the area and percentage of area of surface water that they contain, as well as where each of the states rank nationally in terms of water area.

GEOLogic: Museums and their Dinosaur Displays part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Students are asked to match up five top Museums with 2 fossils that they have on display based on clues presented from various points of view.

Teaching logarithms (logs) by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Logarithms are the inverse of the exponential function. Originally developed as a way to convert multiplication and division problems to addition and subtraction problems before the invention of calculators, ...

Modeling Earth's Temperature part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Students use the STELLA program to create hierarchies of models of increasing complexity to understand the absorption of solar energy by the Earth and its radiation of that energy back to space.

Understanding odds and probability in the geosciences by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Probability is the study of the chance that a particular event or series of events will occur. Typically, the chance of an event or series of events will occur is expressed on a scale from 0 (impossible) to 1 ...

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Age of the Earth part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. Let's try to get a perspective on how long that really is. Suppose that you decided to count to 4.6 billion and that you counted 1 number every second. How ...