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A LEAP Forward for Quantitative Literacy

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dc.creator H.L. Vacher
dc.date 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:21:11Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:21:11Z
dc.identifier 1936-4660
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/906a6d1003744f278ac451d4e55d6c8b
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28779
dc.description The Association of American College and Universities’ Learning Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative has identified quantitative literacy (QL) as one of its Essential Learning Outcomes and classified it amongst five other Intellectual and Practical Skills such as inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, and written and oral communication. This brings to mind a spreadsheet in which these transdisciplinary intellectual and practical skills are rows and academic disciplines are columns. With the view that the learning outcome QL is a row crossing mathematics and other disciplinary columns, this editorial considers how the papers in this and previous issues of Numeracy distribute into the imaginary spreadsheet. The analysis shows that papers in Numeracy have been expanding from the journal’s cell of origin, where QL crosses mathematics, as well as growing in number. The editorial closes by asking about the uniformity of principles of QL from one cell to another in the row, and whether there are levels of QL within the row as a whole. A sidebar notes that downloads are passing the 15,000 mark and the monthly rate now is about 2/3 higher than it was six months ago.
dc.language English
dc.publisher University of South Florida Libraries
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.4.2.1
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1936-4660
dc.rights CC BY-NC
dc.source Numeracy, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 1 (2011)
dc.subject quantitative literacy
dc.subject learning outcome
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 A LEAP Forward for Quantitative Literacy
dc.type article


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