UID:
almafu_9959233520302883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 207 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-61444-316-5
Series Statement:
Notes ; v.81
Content:
There is a gap between the extensive mathematics background that is beneficial to biologists and the minimal mathematics background biology students acquire in their courses. The result is an undergraduate education in biology with very little quantitative content. New mathematics courses must be devised with the needs of biology students in mind. In this volume, authors from a variety of institutions address some of the problems involved in reforming mathematics curricula for biology students. The problems are sorted into three themes: Models, Processes, and Directions. It is difficult for mathematicians to generate curriculum ideas for the training of biologists so a number of the curriculum models that have been introduced at various institutions comprise the Models section. Processes deals with taking that great course and making sure it is institutionalized in both the biology department (as a requirement) and in the mathematics department (as a course that will live on even if the creator of the course is no longer on the faculty). Directions looks to the future, with each paper laying out a case for pedagogical developments that the authors would like to see.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Models. BioCalc at Illinois / J. Jerry Uhl and Judy Holdener ; Biocalculus at Benedictine University / Timothy D. Comar ; Implementation of first year biomath courses at the Ohio State University / Laura Kubatko, Janet Best, Tony Nance, and Yuan Lou ; Teaching calculus, probability, and statistics to undergraduate life science majors : a unified approach / Frederick R. Adler ; The first year of calculus and statistics at Macalester College / Dan Flath, Tom Halverson, Danny Kaplan, and Karen Saxe ; Biology in mathematics at the University of Richmond / Lester Caudill ; A terminal post-Calculus-I mathematics course for biology students / Glenn Ledder ; Modeling nature and the nature of modeling : an integrative modeling approach / Claudia Neuhauser ; Mathematical biology and computational algebra at the sophomore level / Rohan Attele and Dan Hrozencik ; An interdisciplinary research course in theoretical ecology for young undergraduates / Glenn Ledder, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and G. Travis Adams ; An interdisciplinary course, textbook, and laboratory manual in biomathematics with emphasis on current biomedical research / Raina Robeva, Robin Davies, and Michael L. Johnson ; Teaching bioinformatics in a mathematics department / Steven Deckelman ; SYMBIOSIS : an integration of biology, math and statistics at the freshman level : walking together instead of on opposite sides of the street / Karl H. Joplin, Edith Seier, Anant Godbole, Michel Helfgott, Istvan Karsai, Darrell Moore, and Hugh A. Miller, III -- Processes. Science One : integrating mathematical biology into a first-year program / Mark Mac Lean ; Planning for the long term / Meredith L. Greer ; Some lessons from fifteen years of educational initiatives at the interface between mathematics and biology : the entry-level course / Louis J. Gross ; A "wet-lab" calculus for the life sciences / James L. Cornette, Gail B. Johnston, Ralph A. Ackerman, and Brin A. Keller ; Creating an interdisciplinary research course in mathematical biology / Glenn Ledder and Brigitte Tenhumberg ; Bioinformatics : an example of a cooperative learning course / Namyong Lee and Ernest Boyd ; Integrating statistics and General Biology I in a learning community / William Ardis and Sukanya Subramanian ; Constructing an undergraduate biomath curriculum at a large university : developing first year biomath courses at the Ohio State University / Tony Nance and Laura Kubatko ; Initial steps towards an integration of qualitative thinking into the teaching of biology at a large public university / Carole L. Hom, Eric V. Leaver, and Martin Wilson -- Directions. Integrating statistics into college algebra to meet the needs of biology students / Sheldon P. Gordon and Florence Gordon ; Motivating calculus with biology / Sebastian J. Schreiber ; Computational systems biology : discrete models of gene regulation networks / Ana Martins, Paola Vera-Licona, and Reinhard Laubenbacher ; Creating quantitative biologists : the immediate future of SYMBIOSIS / Darrell Moore, Karl H. Joplin, Istvan Karsai, and Hugh A. Miller, III.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-88385-191-1
Language:
English
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