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ISSN 1936-4660 · National Numeracy Network · 366 artikel di indeks
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An Editorial Moment of Silence in Honor of H. Len Vacher
H. Len Vacher, co-founding editor of Numeracy and giant in our field, passed away April 21, 2025. A brief testament to his contributions to numeracy can be found in an editorial in the previous issue of this journal. Here, we take a moment of editorial silence in Len's honor.
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High Ability, Hidden Gaps: Building Quantitative Reasoning amongst Singapore’s Mathematically Literate
In Singapore, where primary and secondary students routinely top standardized worldwide mathematics examinations, a paradox emerges: when reaching university, many struggle to apply their skills critically in real-world contexts. This commentary examines the challenges and strategies involved in…
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The "N" Framework: A Teacher Knowledge Framework for Numeracy across the Curriculum
Governments and policymakers around the world are encouraging teachers to teach numeracy across the curriculum. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the knowledge required to teach numeracy across multiple disciplines. The concept of teacher knowledge is complex and consists of many…
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Bayes in the Brain: A review of Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World, (2024) by Tom Chivers.
Tom Chivers’ Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World, is an interesting and wide-ranging narrative on Bayesian thinking, its history, and its applicability to both our everyday lives and the pursuit of scientific truth. Although appropriate for the non-expert…
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Considering What Counts: The Limits of Proxy Measures
People working with data adopt proxy measures when they find it difficult to measure something directly. In the U.S., infanticide (fairly easy to count) is used as a proxy for physical child abuse. However, infanticide is harder to count cross-nationally, leading researchers to use sex ratios as a…
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Considering What Counts: Inside United States Child Maltreatment Statistics
The counting process which produces statistics is a human enterprise that reflects the needs and interests of the counters. This is clear in the case of the social problem of child abuse. Many different social groups and subprofessions are located in government bureaucracies organized to protect…
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Does a Name Make a Difference? Teaching Random Selection in the Classroom
In Statistics education, it is crucial to emphasize the foundational significance of random selection, which underpins statistical methodologies and ensures unbiased representation of populations in samples. However, students often struggle to grasp the concept’s complexities, leading to challenges…
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Comparing National Benchmark Quantitative Literacy Paper-Based Tests Scores with its Computer-Based Counterparts
One of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the rapid shift to replacing traditional, paper-based tests with their computer-based counterparts. In many cases, these new modes of delivering tests will remain in place for the foreseeable future. In South Africa, the National Benchmark…
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Unquantifiable: The Impacts of Len Vacher
This article celebrates H.L. (Len) Vacher, the founding editor of Numeracy. While many readers of this journal are no doubt familiar with Len’s contributions here and to quantitative literacy as a practice and habit of mind, fewer are intimately familiar with Len’s history and impacts as a…
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A Framework for Strengthening The Quantitative Skills/Reasoning Support Ecosystem at Small Liberal Arts Colleges
We developed a framework for characterizing an institution’s quantitative skills/reasoning support ecosystem to consider how various activities contribute to student success in areas connected to students’ quantitative preparation. Through discussions with faculty and staff stakeholders at eight…
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Advocating for Data Access
Participants in the numeracy movement have long recognized that an understanding of the social construction of quantitative evidence holds a place in the center of critical thinking about quantitative reasoning. Often, social construction manifests itself in choices about what should be counted and…
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An Argument for Expanding Research on Quantitative Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) traditionally has been used in research concerning prospective and practicing classroom teachers. This essay argues that PCK is also relevant to other professions including those advancing quantitative reasoning (QR). To illustrate, the case of PCK for teaching…
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Quantitative Reasoning: What’s Math Got To Do With It?
This keynote address explores the history and role of college math requirements with a focus on ensuring math courses serve to expand students’ horizons, rather than serve as gatekeepers. It discusses the advent of general education math courses, which brought more students into math departments…
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Financial Literacy, Health Insurance, and Health-Related Financial Behaviors
Research on financial literacy seeks to determine whether costly financial mistakes can be avoided. Decisions all consumers face are whether to purchase health insurance, purchase prescriptions, pursue recommended medical testing, and seek medical help for related problems by comparing perceived…
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Examination of the Delphi Method for Establishing a Quantitative Literacy Framework in Undergraduate Mathematics Course
The increased relevancy and importance of quantitative literacy (QL) have called for educational reform in undergraduate mathematics course offerings. However, lack of clear guidelines has led to wide variability in the content and outcomes of math courses meant to address QL. Therefore, having an…
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Considering What Counts: The Fall and Rise of Maternal Mortality Rates
Twentieth-century medical advances reduced the rate of maternal mortality by more than 99 percent. Yet recently we hear that there has been a substantial increase in the maternal mortality rate. This increase has been caused by contemporary researchers adopting much broader definitions for what…
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Numeracy Tasks: Inspiring Transfer Between Concrete and Abstract Thinking Spaces
In our paper we build a case for conceptualizing numeracy tasks as distinct from mathematical tasks (or at least as a special type of mathematical task), and for abstraction and interpretation as a set of key activities necessary for designating a numeracy task as being high-quality. We start with…
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Instructional Decision Making in a Gateway Quantitative Reasoning Course
Many educators and professional organizations recommend Quantitative Reasoning as the best entry-level postsecondary mathematics course for non-STEM majors. However, novice and veteran instructors who have no prior experience in teaching a QR course often express their ignorance of the content to…
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Threshold Concepts in Quantitative Reasoning
The idea of “threshold concepts” has been used to identify discipline-based concepts that are critical to that academic area. Threshold concepts are often difficult for students to assimilate in a meaningful way but, once done, can be powerful for the learner. In general, threshold concepts are 1)…
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Infusing Quantitative Reasoning Skills into a Differential Equation Class in an Urban Public Community College
This research centers on implementing Quantitative Reasoning (QR) within a differential equations course at an urban public community college. As a participant in the Numeracy Infusion for College Educators (NICE) faculty development program, I sought to integrate QR skills into my curriculum…