Adding Math to Biology: Teaching the mathematical basis of evolutionary biology

Journal Article | March 2001

Without a mathematical understanding of evolutionary theory, we leave students defenseless against shallow arguments and pseudoscience. In this activity, students study normal variation in coral size, and to do the…

Explanatory Thinking Using Mobile Devices in a Nonscience Majors Biology Course

Journal Article | August 2019

This article describes a course redesign to enhance explanatory thinking, engagement in scientific modeling to explain phenomena, application to the real world, and the use of an Explain Everything application as a…

MathBench Biology Modules: Web-Based Math for All Biology Undergraduates

Journal Article | February 2009

Historically, biology has not been a heavily quantitative science, but this is changing rapidly (Ewing 2002; Gross 2000; Hastings and palmer 2003; Jungck 2005; Steen 2005). Quantitative approaches now constitute a key…

Biology Education Under the Microscope

Journal Article | September 2007

For many students, high school science is biology and our best—and sometimes only—opportunity to impact students’ knowledge of and interest in science generally will remain linked to the quality and nature of biology…

Problem Solving in Biology: A Methodology

Journal Article | February 2008

A methodology is described that teaches science process by combining informal logic and a heuristic for rating factual reliability. This system facilitates student hypothesis formation, testing, and evaluation of…

Information Literacy in Introductory Biology

Journal Article | April 2006

Incorporating information literacy exercises into the science curriculum will help students to navigate through the myriad of information available in different formats, and to become better scientific thinkers and…

Editor’s Corner: Model Biology

Journal Article | January 2011

Models are at the core of the scientific enterprise. They help us make predictions, understand complex systems, generate new ideas, and visualize both the very large and the very small. The generation of models is the…

Biological Clocks and Circadian Rhythms

Journal Article | January 2009

The study of biological clocks and circadian rhythms is an excellent way to address the inquiry strand in the National Science Education Standards (NSES) (NRC 1996). Students can study these everyday phenomena by…

A Biology Course for Art Majors

Journal Article | October 2003

Developing an eye for science.