Reimagining the Introductory Math Curriculum for Life Sciences Students.

ABSTRACT: Calculus is typically one of the first college courses encountered by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. Calculus often presents major challenges affecting STEM student persistence, particularly for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. For life sciences majors, calculus courses may not offer content that is relevant to biological systems or connect with students' interests in biology. We developed a transformative approach to teaching college-level math, using a dynamical systems perspective that focuses first on demonstrating why students need math to understand living systems, followed by providing quantitative and computational skills, including concepts from calculus, that students need to build and analyze mathematical models repres

SUBMITTER: O'Leary ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8715777 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature