Quantitative

Students analyze musical themes from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", first as a partnered homework assignment, then during a class discussion, and finally on their own as they passed by in the film. Introduction: This auxiliary unit...

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique. Activity: Intro to Data Science Lecture Goal/s: To allow both the student and the teaching...

This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout. Activity: Complex Stats, Simple Tech Goal/s: The goal of the activity was to get the students comfortable with...

Students provided feedback on the highlights of lecture (Roses) and confusing concepts (Thorns) through a weekly online form, providing students with time for reflection and instructors with the ability to address areas of confusion. Goals: to quickly...

Students develop a greenhouse gas inventory and reduction plan for a business, non-profit, government entity, or other institution by working with the organization to understand their sources of emissions and find practical methods of reducing them. Goals...

Goals: Have a good understanding of what the standard deviation is and what it means to diffuse in space. Class: PHYS170: Physics for the Life Sciences Procedure: Prior to the activity, s tudents have just seen in class the basics of probability theory...

In Systems Biology 201, in an effort to prevent paper regurgitation, students were pre-assigned to present "chalk talks" of the reading at each session. SB 201 is a graduate-level discussion seminar, and every class meeting began with a 12-15 minute...

EMR16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) is taught around real-life modules, and all major assignments apply statistical topics directly to the real-life topics. The modules are Romance, Finance, Medical, Elections, and Wine &...

Professor Joe Blitzstein uses Twitter to share articles and other tidbits with his students in Statistics 110. Joe uses @stat110 to share articles that touch on statistics and probability. Rather than email every link to the class, this is a way to...

In Statistics 110, Professor Joe Blitzstein provides students "strategic practice problems," arranged by topic which help then do the problem set. The idea for the strategic practice problems came from chess, where strategies are organized by topic. The...