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Exploring the Relationship between Quantitative Reasoning Skills and News Habits
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.
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Surveying the Landscape of Numbers in U.S. News
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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Introducing The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
Spiegelhalter, David. 2019. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data (New York, NY: Basic Books) 448 pp. ISBN 978-1541618510. This short piece introduces readers to The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data, a new book by David Spiegelhalter. In
David Spiegelhalter
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Development Educational Game Model “Rekreasiku” to Improve Childhood Language Literacy
The purpose of this research is to develop a valid and effective Recreational Educational Game for increasing early childhood language literacy. Literacy is a good culture to develop, literacy is reading, listening, writing, and speaking, the basic ...
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In Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World (2020), Vaclav Smil draws on his interdisciplinary background in science, public policy, and history to provide readers with 71 short essays that help us better understand aspects of
Samuel Tunstall
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Jay P. Abramson and Matthew A. Isom. Literacy & Mathematics: A Contemporary Approach to Quantitative Literacy. (Dubuque IA: Kendell Hunt Publishing Co., 2005). 297 pp. ISBN 0-7575-2165-7.
Gizem Karaali
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Makansi, Jason. 2016. Painting By Numbers: How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out the "Experts". Tucson, AZ: Layla Dog Press. 196 pp. ISBN 978-0-9984259-0-0.
Denis Voytenko
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Luke Tunstall, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds. 2019. Shifting Concepts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education. Math Notes 88. (Mathematics Association of America, MAA Press). Print ISBN 978-0-88385-198-2.
Maura Mast
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Effectiveness of Contextual Phenomena-Based Learning to Improve Science Literacy
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of contextual phenomena-based learning to increase scientific literacy in three Basic Physics materials..
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Influencing the teaching of quantitative literacy at all levels of education can be difficult due to the many demands placed on educators. In a continuing education course, public high school science teachers participated in a pilot study of a program on
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