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Quantitative Literacy at Michigan State University, 2: Connection to Financial Literacy
Numeracy, 2011 The lack of capability of making financial decisions has been recently described for the adult United States population. A concerted effort to increase awareness of this crisis, to improve education in quantitative and financial literacy, and to simplify financial decision-making processes is critical to the solution.
Dennis Gilliland +4 more
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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 representation of data on a geographic background.
Xie, Ming +3 more
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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. Quantitative literacy and statistics are just two of many disciplines required to understand the problem of gun violence in America. However, it’s
William Briggs
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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 alternatives to algebra courses for non-STEM students. Furthermore, quantitative literacy courses affirm
William Briggs
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Incorporating Quantitative Literacy into a T32 Retreat: Lessons and Considerations from Experience. [PDF]
eNeuroHall AA, McGrath JR.
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Occasional Paper Series, 2019 As teachers strive to reimagine mathematics classrooms as interdisciplinary, problem-posing spaces that connect to students’ lives, communities, and the world, how can they prepare young people to develop as civic actors, to build quantitative civic literacy?
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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).
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A Quantitative Analysis of Indonesian Junior High School Science Textbooks for Scientific Literacy Themes [PDF]
, 2021 Adinda Regiliani Agustin +1 more
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Statistical literacy and quantitative reasoning: rethinking the curriculum
New Skills in the changing World of Statistics Education IASE Roundtable Conference, 2020 The importance of statistical literacy/quantitative reasoning has been highlighted for decades; today the need is even more compelling with data science emerging as foundational in many disciplines. Educated students should understand how to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty and how to interpret quantitative information presented to them in
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A LEAP Forward for Quantitative Literacy
Numeracy, 2011 The Association of American College and Universities’ Learning Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative has identified quantitative literacy (QL) as one of its Essential Learning Outcomes and classified it amongst five other Intellectual and Practical Skills such as inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, and written and oral ...
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