BotEC: Walking to the Center of the Earth part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question: The earth's interior is composed of three main concentric zones: the crust, the mantle, and the core. The outermost layer, the crust, averages 40 km thick on the continents and is thinner (averaging ...

BotEC: The Magnitude of Geologic Time part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question The oldest rock yet to be found on the earth is from Canada and is radiometrically dated at 3.8 billion years old. Various lines of evidence suggest that the earth is about 4.5 to 5 billion years old. A ...

Three Point Problems in Ground Water part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Construct surface and ground-water flow at field site then go to lab and estimate the surface strike and direction of ground-water flow.

Environmental Footprint part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
This activity has students do a web-based environmental footprint quiz and integrate their results into a class mean. The students compare their results by creating a bar graph and do some simple calculations to see how much of the Earth just the population of the US requires.

Measuring specific gravity to answer questions about subduction. part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Use a quadruple beam balance to measure the specific gravity of the minerals and rocks that are common in oceanic and continental lithosphere. The results of the calculations are tied to numerous concepts described in previous lectures.

Floods over time: death vs. destruction part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
This exercise looks at the dollar losses and deaths caused by flooding in the US, and at the causes of, and relationships between the two trends.

Determining Dinosaur Speeds part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Introduce students to concepts of dimensinal analysis by determining how fast a dinosaur was moving based on the tracks it made.

Population growth part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: big numbers, exponential growth and decay by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Jump down to: Resource Use | Exponential Growth | Prediction | ...

by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
What is scientific notation? The concept of very large or very small numbers is something that is difficult for many students to comprehend. In general, students have difficulty with two things when dealing with ...

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. ...