Math 7310: Mathematics for Better Science, Science for Better Mathematics

Instructor: Mr. Thomas F. Chubb
                   Dr. Alice Deanin
Format: Lecture with activities
Credits: 3 (graduate)
Schedule: 1 week summer course
Prerequisite: None.  However, this course is restricted to middle school math and science teachers. 
Course Description:

Links used in the course

    Syllabus

    Articles
        
Cognitive Aspects of Learning and Teaching Science

        Applications and Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education
        The Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
        Antibiotics in the News

    Handouts
        Weights of Common Substances

        Inverse Square Law experiment
        Asthma Bus

    References
        Periodic Chart
        Inverse Square Law Graph
        Inverse Square Law geometry

        Inverse Square Light Intensity
        Inverse Square Planets
        Inverse square data

        Inverse Square Radiation
        Populations-Crichton quote

    Books mentioned in the course
         The Assault on Equality (Peter Knapp, Jane C. Kronick, R. William Marks, and
             Miriam G. Vosburgh) 
  
        
The Bell Curve (Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray)
         The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen J. Gould)
        
Radical Equations-Civil Rights From  Mississippi to theAlgebra Project
             (Robert Moses and Charles Cobb)