Teaching biology through statistics: application of statistical methods in genetics and zoology courses.

ABSTRACT: Incorporation of mathematics into biology curricula is critical to underscore for undergraduate students the relevance of mathematics to most fields of biology and the usefulness of developing quantitative process skills demanded in modern biology. At our institution, we have made significant changes to better integrate mathematics into the undergraduate biology curriculum. The curricular revision included changes in the suggested course sequence, addition of statistics and precalculus as prerequisites to core science courses, and incorporating interdisciplinary (math-biology) learning activities in genetics and zoology courses. In this article, we describe the activities developed for these two courses and the assessment tools used to measure the learning that took place with respect to b

SUBMITTER: Colon-Berlingeri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3164565 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature