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Exploring the Relationship between Quantitative Reasoning Skills and News Habits

open access: yesNumeracy, 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

open access: yesNumeracy, 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
John Voiklis   +7 more
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Introducing The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

open access: yesNumeracy, 2020
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

open access: yes, 2022
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 ...
Iswati, Iswati   +2 more
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Bite-Sized Quantitative Reasoning Essays: A Review of Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World (2020), by Vaclav Smil

open access: yesNumeracy, 2023
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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The Problems of Contemporariness and Voice: Review of Literacy & Mathematics: A Contemporary Approach to Quantitative Literacy by Jay P. Abramson and Matthew A. Isom (2005)

open access: yesNumeracy, 2016
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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Review of Painting by Numbers: How to Sharpen Your BS Detector and Smoke Out the "Experts" by Jason Makansi

open access: yesNumeracy, 2018
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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Are We at a Watershed Moment for the Quantitative Literacy Movement?: Review of Shifting Context, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education, by Luke Tunstall, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds.

open access: yesNumeracy, 2019
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

open access: yes, 2023
Objective: This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of contextual phenomena-based learning to increase scientific literacy in three Basic Physics materials..
Sunarti, Titin   +2 more
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Development and Assessment of a Continuing Education Unit in Quantitative Literacy for High School STEM Teachers

open access: yesNumeracy, 2020
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
Craig McClure
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