Mathematics is important in all aspects of scientific inquiry. Technology used to gather data enhances accuracy and allows scientists to analyze and quantify results of investigations. . Scientific explanations emphasize The scientific community accepts and evidence, have logically consistent uses such explanations until displaced by arguments, and use scientific better scientific ones. When such principles, models, and theories. X A OCR for page 170 Understanding . .
Scientists conduct investigations for a wide variety of reasons.
Elaboration Science advances through legitimate skepticism. Scientific investigations some- times result in new ideas and phenomena for study, generate new methods or procedures for an investigation, or develop new technologies to improve the collection of data. Asking questions and querying other scientists' explanations is part of scientific inquiry. All of these results can lead to new investigations. Elaboration Conceptual principles and knowledge guide scientific inquiries.