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Current practices in quantitative literacy [electronic resource] / edited by Rick Gillman.
ISBN:
9780883859780
Title:
Current practices in quantitative literacy [electronic resource] / edited by Rick Gillman.
Author:
Gillman, Rick.
Publication Information:
[Washington, DC] : MAA, Mathematical Association of America, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustrations.
Series:
MAA notes ; no. 70
General Note:
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Mar 2012).
Contents:
""Cover ""; ""copyright page ""; ""Title page ""; ""Introduction""; ""Contents""; ""Part I: History and Context""; ""Some Historical Notes""; ""Introduction""; ""Early Movements by the MAA""; ""Connections with Influential Forces in School Mathematics""; ""Actions of the Early Eighties""; ""Calls for Change and Reform""; ""QL Terms Defined""; ""Content and Pedagogy""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Issues, Policies, and Activities in the Movement for Quantitative Literacy""; ""Introduction""; ""Defining QL and the Surrounding Issues""; ""The Academic and Political Realities of QL""

""Activities That Support QL""""References""; ""What Mathematics Should All College Students Know?""; ""Part II: Interdisciplinary and Interdepartmental Programs""; ""Quantitative Methods for Public Policy""; ""Introduction""; ""Program History""; ""Program Goals and Learning Objectives""; ""Student Placement into the Program""; ""Program Details""; ""The Workshops""; ""The Evening Class""; ""Program Assessment""; ""Cross-disciplinary Commitment and Participation""; ""Outreach and Dissemination""; ""The Quantitative Requirement at Juniata College""; ""Curriculum and Program History""

""""Quantitative Methods"" Course""""Examples of Other Courses Used to Satisfy Quantitative Requirements""; ""Chemistry-Biology Lab I and II (QS)""; ""Statistics for the Social Sciences (QS)""; ""Managerial Accounting (QM)""; ""Calculus I (QM)""; ""Assessment""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""Quantitative Literacy at Dominican University""; ""Introduction""; ""Background Information""; ""Curriculum Details""; ""College Algebra (MATH130)""; ""Mathematics for the Elementary School Teacher (MATH160)""; ""Finite Mathematics (MATH170)""; ""Contemporary Mathematics (MATH150)""

""Advising and Placement""""Program Assessment""; ""Outstanding Issues""; ""Advising""; ""Transfer Students""; ""Articulation""; ""Evening Classes""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""The Quantitative Reasoning Program at Hollins University""; ""Introduction""; ""Hollins� General Education Program""; ""The QR Requirements""; ""The QR Basic Skills Requirement.""; ""The QR Applied Skills Requirement.""; ""Faculty Development""; ""Six Applied QR Projects""; ""American Social History: Census of Families in Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1689.""

""Ancient Art (Prof. Christina Salowey): Quantitative Analysis of Doric Temples.""""Calculus I (Professor Trish Hammer): The McDonald�s Coffee Lawsuit � AKA Newton�s Law of Cooling.""; ""Ecology: Demography Life Tables, Survivorship Curves, and Patterns of Fecundity.""; ""France Since the Revolution: A Quantitative Analysis of Napoleon�s March to Moscow.""; ""Lighting Design: Creating Even Washes of Light on a Theatrical Stage.""; ""Pedagogy""; ""Assessment""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""A Decade of Quantitative Reasoning at Kalamazoo College""; ""Program History""
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Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
[Washington, DC] : MAA, Mathematical Association of America, ©2012.