Calculus, Biology and Medicine: A Case Study in Quantitative Literacy for Science Students

This paper describes a course designed to enhance the numeracy of biology and pre-medical students. The course introduces students with the background of one semester of calculus to systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations as they appear in the mathematical biology literature. Evaluation...

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Main Authors: Kim Rheinlander, Dorothy Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Numeracy Network 2011-01-01
Series:Numeracy
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.4.1.3