Even after having taken an introductory statistics class, many students continue to struggle with the concepts of sampling distributions, sampling error, and statistical inference. As a first step in identifying ways of more effectively approaching these topics, the poster will examine methods currently used in popular text books and propose an alternative based on using binomial and Poisson di...

Even in introductory textbooks on mathematical proof, intermediate proof steps are generally skipped when this seems appropriate. This gives rise to different granularities of proofs, depending on the intended audience and the context in which the proof is presented. We have developed a mechanism to classify whether proof steps of different sizes are appropriate in a tutoring context. The neces...

1 Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin Parkside, 900 Wood Road, P.O. Box 2000, Kenosha, WI 53141-2000 [mccann at uwp.edu] Abstract Division is the most intellectually challenging of the basic operators of relational algebra. Although its utility is unquestioned, its presentation by many textbooks, and therefore by many instructors, leaves much to be desired. This paper examines ...

Literature There are many mathematics textbooks at intermediate level: e.g. [Boas, 1966]. A good book that we use, is Greenberg’s [Greenberg, 1998]. It is a bit expensive, but a good investment. By now the internet is also a good resource (with the usual caveats) http: //mathworld.wolfram.com contains an encyclopedia of mathematics. A good introductory book in neural computation is Trappenberg’...

Neuroscience has enjoyed tremendous growth over the past 20 years, including a substantial increase in the number of neuroscience departments, programs, and courses at the undergraduate level. To meet the need of new neuroscience courses, there has also been growth in the number of introductory neuroscience textbooks designed for undergraduates. However, textbooks typically trail current knowle...

Abstract This introductory article presents the contributions to a thematic issue about visual analysis of history textbooks and other educational media. It provides brief historical overview use pictures in discusses how developments studies can help move study such beyond questions representation, toward considering different ways which they exercise an agency their own. argues that we need d...

The ability to acquire, observe, and analyze neuronal activity in conjunction with behavior in awake, behaving organisms was a great leap forward for the field of neuroscience in the 20th century. While some of the early experiments are relayed in introductory textbooks, rarely are undergraduate students introduced to tractable primary literature that illustrates the genesis of modern technique...

A student studying introductory biology at the college level faces the challenges of both mastering a large new vocabulary and integrating diverse, core concepts across different levels of biological organization. This task is made even more difficult due to the metaphoric language that is typical of introductory biology textbooks. In this paper, we report our achievements in creating conceptua...