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Quantitative Map Literacy: A Cross between Map Literacy and Quantitative Literacy
Numeracy, 2018 We define quantitative map literacy (QML), a cross between map literacy and quantitative literacy (QL), as the concepts and skills required to accurately read, use, interpret, and understand the quantitative information embedded in a geospatial ...
Ming Xie +3 more
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Quantitative Literacy and Civic Virtue
Numeracy, 2018 Mathematics educators are occasionally called upon to justify the existence or the offering of quantitative literacy courses. This paper argues that effective quantitative literacy courses have different goals than algebra courses and are legitimate ...
William Briggs
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Quantitative Literacy and Guns
Numeracy, 2021 Briggs, William. 2017. How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis; (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press). 352 pp. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-8263-5813-4. E-book ISBN 978-0-8263-5814-1.
William Briggs
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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2016 Over the past four years I have worked with a project on quantitative literacy (QL) that Bob Orrill directed from the National Council on Education and the Disciplines (NCED) at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. In spring 2001 NCED published Mathematics and
F. Rivera-batiz, ed Bruno S. Frey
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Critical Quantitative Literacy: An Educational Foundation for Critical Quantitative Research
AERA Open, 2023 Education research has recently seen the emergence of two distinct frameworks guiding the application of quantitative methods through a more critical and equity-oriented lens. These two frameworks are critical quantitative (CritQuant) studies and quantitative critical race theory (QuantCrit).
Michael B. Frisby
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Incorporating an Interactive Statistics Workshop into an Introductory Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Enhances Students' Statistical Reasoning and Quantitative Literacy Skills. [PDF]
J Microbiol Biol Educ, 2018 Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) provide an avenue for student participation in authentic scientific opportunities. Within the context of such coursework, students are often expected to collect, analyze, and evaluate data obtained ...
Olimpo JT, Pevey RS, McCabe TM.
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Artificial Intelligence, Basic Skills, and Quantitative Literacy
Numeracy, 2023 The introduction in November 2022 of ChatGPT, a freely available language-based artificial intelligence, has led to concerns among some educators about the feasibility and benefits of teaching basic writing and critical thinking skills to students in the context of easily accessed, AI-based cheating mechanisms.
Gizem Karaali
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Numeracy, 2019 Tunstall, Samuel, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds. 2019. Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education (Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America) 258 pp. ISBN 978-1614443247.
Samuel Tunstall +2 more
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Three Formative Questions in the Quantitative Literacy Movement
Numeracy, 2019 In this essay we remember early discussions attempting to answer three questions that played a formative role in our understanding of and approach to numeracy, quantitative literacy, and quantitative reasoning: (1) What is numeracy?
Dorothy Wallace
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Number Sense: The Underpinning Understanding for Early Quantitative Literacy [PDF]
Numeracy, 2012 The fundamental meaning of Quantitative Literacy (QL) as the application of quantitative knowledge or reasoning in new/unfamiliar contexts is problematic because how we acquire knowledge, and transfer it to new situations, is not straightforward. This article argues that in the early development of QL, there is a specific corpus of numerical knowledge ...
MacLellan, Effie
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