Model Limitations part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Modeling
Prepared by Paul Quay (University of Washington) and Will Frangos (James Madison University). Since models only approximate natural phenomena, they are inherently inexact. The mathematical description can be ...

Measurement Error part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Understanding Uncertainty
Numbers presented to students in geoscience always have some error associated with them. Anytime data is presented in class, not only in an instrumentation course, it is important they understand the errors ...

Stress and Strain part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: trigonometry, graphing by Dr. Carol Ormand (University of Wisconsin - Madison) and Dr. Eric Baer (Highline Community College) Jump down to: Stress, strain, & structures | Conditions ...

Understanding Trends part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Related quantitative concepts: Basic graphing skills, Interpolation/Extrapolation, Functions', Graph Significance, Graphing confusion by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ...

How big was that quake? part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: probablility, recurrence intervals, logarithms by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Essential Concepts Generally there are several main concepts that our students ...

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 ...

Deep Time - the geologic time scale 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: Relative vs. Numerical age | Timescales | How do we know? | ...

Teaching quantitative concepts in floods and flooding part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: probability,recurrence intervals, rates by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Jump down to: Rating Curves | Inundation | Flood forecasts | Resources and activities ...

Teaching recurrence intervals part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: probability by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Jump down to:randomness | forecasting vs. recurrence | How to calculate | Teaching Examples and Resources ...