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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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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 ...
Mary Candace Raygoza
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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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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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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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Exploring the Relationship between Quantitative Reasoning Skills and News Habits
Numeracy, 2023 Because people are constantly confronted with numbers and mathematical concepts in the news, we have embarked on a project to create journalism that can support news users’ number skills.
Bennett Attaway +8 more
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Surveying the Landscape of Numbers in U.S. News
Numeracy, 2021 The news arguably serves to inform the quantitative reasoning (QR) of news audiences. Before one can contemplate how well the news serves this function, we first need to determine how much QR typical news stories require from readers. This paper assesses
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