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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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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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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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Quantitative Literacy: A Tool for Survival
Numeracy, 2020 In the context of a global pandemic, the need for quantitative literacy has become more urgent. QL and QL-adjacent habits of mind, such as awareness of the limitations of data and modeling, are vital tools of survival that can help people understand today's fast-changing world and make decisions about next actions, in particular in relation to the ...
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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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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