Introduction to Quantitative Literacy

Students overall had greater ability in quantitative literacy than in quantitative interpretation of models or modelling.

There is a clear and concrete need for greater quantitative literacy in the biological and environmental sciences.

This paper argues for increased attention to quantitative literacy in undergraduate critical human geography curriculum.

Quantitative literacy is an important skill needed by individuals in solving problems with quantitative situations in daily life.

In mathematics education, there is general agreement regarding the significance of mathematical literacy (also quantitative literacy or numeracy) for informed citizenship, which often requires evaluating the use of numbers in public policy discourse.

In international perspective the State of Israel was ranked in the lowest places in quantitative literacy achievements in the years 2006-2018.

This study aimed to measure and analyze student quantitative literacy in environmental pollution concept based on six indicators quantitative literacy.

This study examines the academic outcomes for students at California State University Monterey Bay in a college credit level quantitative literacy (QL) mathematics course with optional corequisite support during the 2018-2019 academic year.

This research is part of the development of mathematical quantitative literacy instruments for elementary school students.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of quantitative literacy--for policy makers and the public at large.

A series of activities uses media coverage of a natural disaster to develop quantitative literacy.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of quantitative literacy--for policy makers and the public at large.

Quantitative literacy and statistics are just two of many disciplines required to understand the problem of gun violence in America.

The Numeracy Centre at the University of Cape Town has taught a one-semester quantitative literacy course for social sciences students since 1999.

We introduce the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy (PIQL) as a tool for measuring quantitative literacy (i.

, fail versus first-class pass), academic literacy and, to a lesser extent, quantitative literacy emerged as having greater relative importance than pre-university mathematics in explaining the variance in engineering mathematics scores.

The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the worst crisis the world has faced, so far, in this new century We haven’t seen a pandemic like this since the 1918 Flu at the beginning of the last century, and, as of this writing, there appears to be no end in sight What those of us who’re focused on quantitative methods have noticed, in addition to the many people dying, becoming ill, and losing their livelihoods, is the importance of quantitative literacy to an understanding of what’s going on That’s what this article is about Specifically, it’s about how the COVID-19 pandemic is illustrating the importance of understanding different aspects of probability theory, particularly conditional probability © 2021, National Numeracy Network All rights reserved.

comprehensive university was conducted to assess five general education competency skills (written, oral, quantitative literacy, critical thinking and information literacy).

Although research into the relationship between quantitative literacy (QL) and news reporting is sparse, the consensus among researchers is that journalists tend not to place QL very highly among their professional values and that journalism suffers as a consequence.

Informed by writer-identity theory explaining links between emotion and identity, this study explores college STEM students’ feelings of comfort pertaining to math literacy, quantitative literacy, writing in STEM, and writing in general.

Although explicitly targeted to social work students and professionals, the nine chapters here provide a good quantitative literacy education accessible to the general public and include a great many of the topics one would find in a "standard" quantitative literacy text written by a mathematician.

The first two contributions in the collection appeared last issue: Linda Sons on the making of what has come to be known as the 1994 Sons Report (Mathematics Association of America), and Dorothy Wallace on her path to the Quantitative Literacy Design Team for Mathematics and Democracy (2001), and the questions that bedeviled them then – and us now.

But it does not fit the mold of these or the other courses one typically sees at this level, including liberal arts mathematics and quantitative literacy courses.

Researchers and employers both herald the importance of quantitative literacy among undergraduates in business schools.

The authors describe working with partner disciplines during the process of updating mathematics courses for the general education quantitative literacy requirement.

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? (2) Should the QL movement promote any specific kind of pedagogy? (3) What organizational structure will best support QL? As the QL movement has progressed, these three questions continue to be difficult to answer.

A course in quantitative literacy is a unique opportunity to provide this quantitative understanding to a wide range of students in a general education context.

The present study explores undergraduate students’ productive struggles in a Quantitative Literacy (QL) course, when doing exercises on the statistical concept of confidence intervals (CIs) within the context of odds ratios (ORs) , embedded in everyday authentic contexts.

This Roots and Seeds article is a partial history of the quantitative literacy movement in the Mathematical Association of America in the first decade of the 21st century.

In addition, searching Google finds more than 30 adjective-literacy or noun-literacy collocations, including quantitative literacy, adult literacy, and document literacy, that do not have Wikipedia pages of their own but are mentioned on other Wikipedia pages.

Specifically, we must ensure that when students graduate, they are able to apply key cognitive skills such as effective communication, cultural sensitivity, ethics and values, information and technology literacy, relational skills, and quantitative literacy in their personal and professional lives.

In a previous article, we described our college’s new core curriculum, which included a Quantitative Literacy (QL) component for the first time.

Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education (Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America) 258 pp.

In this analysis, we examine how course assessment items were aligned with learning objectives in a quantitative literacy course at Michigan State University.

Quantitative literacy is a foundational component of success in STEM disciplines and in life.

This is a most revolutionary book, and I would love to teach a course using it! There is much interest in what is variously termed quantitative literacy (QL), quantitative reasoning (QR), and critical thinking (CT).

At Michigan State University, college-level courses in both Quantitative Literacy and College Algebra now directly enroll students who previously would have placed into Intermediate Algebra.

Shifting Concepts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education.

This manuscript describes a quantitative literacy course focusing on issues of economic and racial justice, developed for a summer bridge program.

In this paper, we present a serious game to improve quantitative literacy in children studying the third grade of primary school.

The Gini index is one of the most commonly used indicators of income inequality, and its computation and interpretation require a thorough understanding of various quantitative literacy concepts.

Students not only improve their quantitative literacy but also learn more generally about the scientific method and the production of research.

A course in Quantitative Literacy (QL) offers non-STEM students an alternative option to introductory algebra as a path to a degree.

This study, situated in the context of higher education, seeks to track the performance of students whose National Benchmark Tests performance is known in a Quantitative Literacy intervention course.

Quality generally declined over time, suggesting the quantitative literacy of PVA practitioners has not increased over time or that PVAs developed by unskilled users are being published in peer-reviewed journals.

By using an example, this chapter argues for the use of a research tutorial as a training strategy for tutor professional development (TPD) in an undergraduate Quantitative Literacy (QL) intervention course.

This study aims to measure how students' attitudes regarding numeracy affect their scientific literacy and whether students' quantitative literacy skills correlate with their scientific reasoning skills.