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evidence suggests incorporating quantitative reasoning exercises existent curricular frameworks within science technology engineering mathematics stem disciplines essential novices development conceptual understanding process skills domains despite case studies acknowledge students often experience difficulty applying mathematics context scientific problems address concern present study sought explore impact active demonstrations critical reading exercises novices comprehension basic statistical concepts including hypothesis testing experimental design interpretation research findings students first engaged highly interactive height activity served intuitively illustrate normal distribution mean standard deviation sample selection criteria enforce practical applications standard deviation pvalue student teams subsequently assigned figure peerreviewed primary research article instructed evaluate trustworthiness data conclusion exercise students presented evaluations class open discussion commentary quantitative assessment pre postmodule survey data indicated statistically significant increase students scientific reasoning process skills selfreported confidence understanding statistical concepts presented module furthermore data indicated majority students 85 found module interesting helpful nature future studies seek develop additional novel exercises within area evaluate impact modules across variety stem nonstem contexts