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Incorporating Quantitative Reasoning in Common Core Courses: Mathematics for The Ghost Map

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dc.creator John R. Jungck
dc.date 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:17:06Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:17:06Z
dc.identifier 1936-4660
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/a12ca555432a417a8550abd5682726cc
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26100
dc.description How can mathematics be integrated into multi-section interdisciplinary courses to enhance thematic understandings and shared common readings? As an example, four forms of quantitative reasoning are used to understand and critique one such common reading: Steven Berlin Johnson’s "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World" (Riverhead Books, 2006). Geometry, statistics, modeling, and networks are featured in this essay as the means of depicting, understanding, elaborating, and critiquing the public health issues raised in Johnson’s book. Specific pedagogical examples and resources are included to illustrate applications and opportunities for generalization beyond this specific example. Quantitative reasoning provides a robust, yet often neglected, lens for doing literary and historical analyses in interdisciplinary education.
dc.language English
dc.publisher University of South Florida Libraries
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.5.1.7
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1936-4660
dc.rights CC BY-NC
dc.source Numeracy, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 7 (2012)
dc.subject Quantitative reasoning
dc.subject Interdisciplinary courses
dc.subject Common readings
dc.subject Public health issues
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Mathematics
dc.subject QA1-939
dc.subject Science
dc.subject Q
dc.subject DOAJ:Mathematics
dc.subject DOAJ:Mathematics and Statistics
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Mathematics
dc.subject QA1-939
dc.subject Science
dc.subject Q
dc.subject DOAJ:Mathematics
dc.subject DOAJ:Mathematics and Statistics
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Mathematics
dc.subject QA1-939
dc.subject Science
dc.subject Q
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Mathematics
dc.subject QA1-939
dc.subject Science
dc.subject Q
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Mathematics
dc.subject QA1-939
dc.subject Science
dc.subject Q
dc.title Incorporating Quantitative Reasoning in Common Core Courses: Mathematics for The Ghost Map
dc.type article


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