NIMBioS/BioQUEST Tutorial

Biology by Numbers: Bringing Math to the High School Biology Classroom

Dates: July 23-25, 2014

Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Organizers:

• Kristin Jenkins, Executive Director, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
• Andrew Hasley, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
• John Jungck, Director, Interdisciplinary Science Learning Laboratories, Affiliate of the Bioinformatics Program, Univ. of Delaware
• Tony Weisstein, Biology, Truman State Univ.

This tutorial/workshop focused on getting comfortable with the quantitative side of biology.

The program featured hands-on experience with inquiry activities that used real data, tools for graphing, modeling, and much more. The University of Tennessee's popular Biology in a Box supplied some of the activities integrating math and science. Participants worked collaboratively to add or enrich the quantitative aspects of their favorite biology lab.

The tutorial/workshop was led by the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, a 25-year biology education reform community that focuses on helping faculty develop and implement innovative curricula.

Click here for a playlist of presentation videos available online.

Descriptive flyer (pdf)

If you have questions, please contact: Kristin Jenkins, Executive Director, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium at kristin.jenkins@bioquest.org.

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.