COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: The Math You Need, When You Need It: Modular Student Resources to Encourage Successful Incorporation of Quantitative Concepts in Introductory Geoscience

地质学（42）智力价值：“你需要的数学，当你需要它”计划正在创建一系列以学生为中心的基于网络的模块，可以定制，并同时运行，任何介绍地球科学课程。每个模块都为学生提供了他们需要的定量知识，就在他们需要它之前，在他们的并行地质课程。 这个独特的计划包括：1）学生的定量技能的预评估，2）模块化，自定进度，以学生为中心的教学准备不足的学生和3）后评估，以评估该计划的有效性。 我们正在利用基于数学教育最佳实践的创新教学技术，从而创建这些模块，以便在整个地质课程中提高学生对数学的知识和理解。 结合地球科学背景下的定量概念的课堂示例，该项目解决了美国STEM教育的许多问题，包括教授大量来自不同背景的学生的困难，课程适应学生现有知识，以及学生自我评估和监测。高等教育界认识到数量素养是其毕业生的一个重要目标，因为他们融入了我们日益以数字为导向的社会。这个项目通过提高美国大学生的量化素养，从而提高美国人口的数量，来实现这一目标。 模块化的性质和能力，量体裁衣的教学，以满足个别学生的需要，支持增加数量识字的学生与不同的背景和数学能力。 该项目正在影响地球科学教师，他们希望在课程中纳入地球科学的定量方面，只需付出很少的额外努力，并尽量减少对准备不足的学生的疏远。 此外，拟议的项目有可能被复制到其他学科和机构的定量技能的应用是一个障碍，以学生的成功。

Geology (42)Intellectual merit: "The Math You Need, When You Need It" program is creating a series of student-centered web-based modules that can be customized to, and run concurrently with, any introductory geoscience course. Each module gives students the quantitative knowledge that they need, just before they need it in their concurrent geology course. This unique program includes: 1) pre-assessment of students' quantitative skills, 2) modular, self-paced, student-centered instruction for under-prepared students and 3) post-assessment to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. We are utilizing innovative instructional techniques based in best practices in mathematical education and thereby creating these modules so that they advance students' knowledge and understanding of mathematics across the geology curriculum. Combined with classroom examples of quantitative concepts in a geoscience context, this project is addressing many concerns about the nation's STEM education, including difficulties with teaching large numbers of students from diverse backgrounds, course adaptation to students' preexisting knowledge, and student self-assessment and monitoring.Broader impacts: The higher education community recognizes quantitative literacy as an important goal for its graduates as they are integrated into our increasingly number-oriented society. This project is working toward that goal by increasing the quantitative literacy of American undergraduates and, as a result, the greater US population. The modular nature and capability of tailoring instruction to meet individual student needs is supporting increased quantitative literacy in students with diverse backgrounds and mathematical abilities. The project is impacting geoscience faculty who wish to embrace inclusion of quantitative aspects of geoscience in their courses with little extra effort and minimal alienation of under-prepared students. In addition, the proposed project has the potential to be replicated across other academic disciplines and institutions wherever the application of quantitative skills is a barrier to student success.