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White, David – PRIMUS, 2019
In an increasingly data-driven world, facility with statistics is more important than ever for our students. At institutions without a statistician, it often falls to the mathematics faculty to teach statistics courses. This paper presents a model that a mathematician asked to teach statistics can follow. This model entails connecting with faculty…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Student Projects, Teaching Methods
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McMurran, Shawnee L. – PRIMUS, 2010
This module was initially developed for a course in applications of mathematics in biology. The objective of this lesson is to investigate how the allele and genotypic frequencies associated with a particular gene might evolve over successive generations. The lesson will discuss how the Hardy-Weinberg model provides a basis for comparison when…
Descriptors: Population Trends, Mathematics Instruction, Biology, Genetics