Seminar

Fri, June 23, 4:00 – 5:30 pm:  "An Extra Sense"
Over the past 20 years, a growing number of biology education consortia and national societies have advocated for a more quantitative curriculum to match the increasingly mathematical, statistical, and computational nature of modern biological and biomedical research.  At the same time, biology instructors frequently report that their students seem less mathematically prepared than in previous years.  In this session, we will discuss some of the main challenges facing the integration of quantitative reasoning into the biology curriculum, draft sample learning objectives (both broad and narrower in scope), and introduce an assortment of pedagogical strategies, free software tools, and sample curricula.