Foreword: Looking Backward and Moving Forward in Undergraduate Life Science Quantitative Education

pp vii-viii

Foreword: An Invitation to BIO SIGMAA

pp ix-x

Contents

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

General Introduction

pp xvii-xviii

I - Models

pp 1-4

1 - BioCalc at Illinois

pp 5-16

2 - Biocalculus at Benedictine University

pp 17-24

3 - Implementation of First Year Biomath Courses at the Ohio State University

pp 25-32

4 - Teaching Calculus, Probability, and Statistics to Undergraduate Life Science Majors: A Unified Approach

pp 33-38

5 - The First Year of Calculus and Statistics at Macalester College

pp 39-44

6 - Biology in Mathematics at the University of Richmond

pp 45-50

7 - A Terminal Post-Calculus-I Mathematics Course for Biology Students

pp 51-60

8 - Modeling Nature and the Nature of Modeling—an Integrative Modeling Approach

pp 61-64

9 - Mathematical Biology and Computational Algebra at the Sophomore Level

pp 65-68

10 - An Interdisciplinary Research Course in Theoretical Ecology for Young Undergraduates

pp 69-82

11 - An Interdisciplinary Course, Textbook, and Laboratory Manual in Biomathematics with Emphasis on Current Biomedical Research

pp 83-88

12 - Teaching Bioinformatics in a Mathematics Department

pp 89-96

13 - SYMBIOSIS: An Integration of Biology, Math and Statistics at the Freshman Level: Walking Together Instead of on Opposite Sides of the Street

pp 97-104

II - Processes

pp 105-108

14 - Science One: Integrating Mathematical Biology into a First-Year Program

pp 109-114

15 - Planning for the Long Term

pp 115-120

16 - Some Lessons from Fifteen Years of Educational Initiatives at the Interface between Mathematics and Biology: The Entry-Level Course

pp 121-126

17 - A “Wet-Lab” Calculus for the Life Sciences

pp 127-132

18 - Creating an Interdisciplinary Research Course in Mathematical Biology

pp 133-138

19 - Bioinformatics: An Example of a Cooperative Learning Course

pp 139-142

20 - Integrating Statistics and General Biology I in a Learning Community

pp 143-148

21 - Constructing an Undergraduate BioMath Curriculum at a Large University: Developing First Year Biomath Courses at The Ohio State University

pp 149-154

22 - Initial Steps Towards an Integration of Qualitative Thinking into the Teaching of Biology at a Large Public University

pp 155-164