Undergraduate mathematics for the life sciences
Subtitle: models, processes, and directions
By: edited by Glenn Ledder, Jenna P. Carpenter, and Timothy D. Comar
Series: MAA notes -- #81; MAA notes -- no. 81.
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780883851913; 9781614443162
Subjects: Biomathematics; Study and teaching (Higher); Life sciences; Mathematics; Universities and colleges; Curricula; Planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Models. BioCalc at Illinois / J. Jerry Uhl and Judy Holdener ; Biocalculus at Benedictine University / Timothy D. Comar ; Implementation of first year biomath courses at the Ohio State University / Laura Kubatko, Janet Best, Tony Nance, and Yuan Lou ; Teaching calculus, probability, and statistics to undergraduate life science majors : a unified approach / Frederick R. Adler ; The first year of calculus and statistics at Macalester College / Dan Flath, Tom Halverson, Danny Kaplan, and Karen Saxe ; Biology in mathematics at the University of Richmond / Lester Caudill ; A terminal post-Calculus-I mathematics course for biology students / Glenn Ledder ; Modeling nature and the nature of modeling : an integrative modeling approach / Claudia Neuhauser ; Mathematical biology and computational algebra at the sophomore level / Rohan Attele and Dan Hrozencik ; An interdisciplinary research course in theoretical ecology for young undergraduates / Glenn Ledder, Brigitte Tenhumberg, and G. Travis Adams ; An interdisciplinary course, textbook, and laboratory manual in biomathematics with emphasis on current biomedical research / Raina Robeva, Robin Davies, and Michael L. Johnson ; Teaching bioinformatics in a mathematics department / Steven Deckelman ; SYMBIOSIS : an integration of biology, math and statistics at the freshman level : walking together instead of on opposite sides of the street / Karl H. Joplin, Edith Seier, Anant Godbole, Michel Helfgott, Istvan Karsai, Darrell Moore, and Hugh A. Miller, III; title: Processes. Science One : integrating mathematical biology into a first-year program / Mark Mac Lean ; Planning for the long term / Meredith L. Greer ; Some lessons from fifteen years of educational initiatives at the interface between mathematics and biology : the entry-level course / Louis J. Gross ; A "wet-lab" calculus for the life sciences / James L. Cornette, Gail B. Johnston, Ralph A. Ackerman, and Brin A. Keller ; Creating an interdisciplinary research course in mathematical biology / Glenn Ledder and Brigitte Tenhumberg ; Bioinformatics : an example of a cooperative learning course / Namyong Lee and Ernest Boyd ; Integrating statistics and General Biology I in a learning community / William Ardis and Sukanya Subramanian ; Constructing an undergraduate biomath curriculum at a large university : developing first year biomath courses at the Ohio State University / Tony Nance and Laura Kubatko ; Initial steps towards an integration of qualitative thinking into the teaching of biology at a large public university / Carole L. Hom, Eric V. Leaver, and Martin Wilson; title: Directions. Integrating statistics into college algebra to meet the needs of biology students / Sheldon P. Gordon and Florence Gordon ; Motivating calculus with biology / Sebastian J. Schreiber ; Computational systems biology : discrete models of gene regulation networks / Ana Martins, Paola Vera-Licona, and Reinhard Laubenbacher ; Creating quantitative biologists : the immediate future of SYMBIOSIS / Darrell Moore, Karl H. Joplin, Istvan Karsai, and Hugh A. Miller, III.