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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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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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Perspectives in Education, 2012 This article examines some aspects of the effectiveness of a first-year course in quantitative literacy for Humanities and Law students at a South African university.
Vera Frith
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Looking at the Multiple Meanings of Numeracy, Quantitative Literacy, and Quantitative Reasoning
Numeracy, 2014 The subject of this journal goes by a variety of names: numeracy, quantitative literacy, and quantitative reasoning. Some authors use the terms interchangeably. Others see distinctions between them. Study of psycholinguistic and ontological concepts laid
H.L. Vacher
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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
Dennis Gilliland +4 more
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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?
Mary Candace Raygoza +1 more
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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, Effie Maclellan
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The ability of quantitative literacy of pre-service biology students
JPBI (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2017 This research have purpose to know and describe quantitative literacy of pre-service biology students based on six indicators of quantitative literacy. Methods used is descriptive with study survey. This research carried out at Siliwangi University with
Ryan Ardiansyah, Dea Diella
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Looking Back at Quantitative Reasoning
Numeracy, 2021 A teacher looks back on three decades of teaching, pondering, and writing about quantitative reasoning (QR) and shares a few lessons learned. The skills that we teach in QR courses are more important than ever in providing students with a sense of civic ...
William Briggs
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