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Below are labs we’ve been developing that emphasize specific quantitative skills. Have some of your own to contribute? E-mail us!
The Nature of Science (manipulation and representation of data – graphs, tables). Based on an Allstate Insurance tongue-in-cheek press release.
Kepler’s Laws and the Galilean Moons (making measurements, graphing data, estimation, data interpretation, simple equations). Data here.
Solar System Scale Modeling (orders of magnitude, fractions and percentages, numerical comparisons)
Exoplanet Detection Methods (error, selection bias)