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