Quantitative Reasoning Information
From Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy (see MAA QR/QL Web Site): There is a consensus that the mathematical skills necessary to be quantitatively literate include elementary logic, the basic mathematics of financial interest, descriptive statistics, finite probability, an elementary understanding of change, the ability to model problems with linear and exponential models, estimation and approximation, and general problem solving. It is clear that many of out sudents enter college with minimal mastery of these skills and their application.
Quantitative Reasoning is also known as Quantitative Literacy, and outside the United States as Mathematical Literacy.
The following represents a small collection of documents (in pdf files) about and links to the Quantitative Reasoning concept and programs.
- MAA QR Guidelines Document
- Two Page Overview of MAA QR Guidelines
- Numbers in Context - What is QL?
- QL Core Concepts
- Developing a QL Program
- Assessing a QR Program
- Selected QR/QL Programs in the U.S.
- QL and Geoscience
- QL and Social Science Surveys
- Grades 9-10
- Grades 11-12
- Final Report (March 2008)
- MAA QR/QL Web Site
- MAA Guidelines for Quantitative Reasoning (1994)
- MAA Feature Article: Why Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges
- Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy (on-line book by L. Steen).
- Definitional Position Paper on Quantitative Literacy (L. Steen)
- "Everything I Needed to Know about Averages ... I Learned in College" (L. Steen)
- Informational Web Site for QR/QL at Colorado University - Denver
- Wellesely College QR Program Web Site
- Trinity College Quantitative Literacy Program
- CUPM Subcommittee on Quantitative Literacy
- Dartmouth QL Course
- QL and Civil Rights Project
- Evergreen College QL and Transition to College
- Beyond Crossroads Project