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"There Are Different Ways You Can Be Good at Math": Quantitative Literacy, Mathematical Modeling, and Reading the World.
- Source :
- Primus: Problems, Resources & Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies; 2019, Vol. 29 Issue 3/4, p259-280, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This manuscript describes a quantitative literacy course focusing on issues of economic and racial justice, developed for a summer bridge program. The curriculum for the course, described in the manuscript, consisted of open-ended assignments that dealt with real-world issues and required basic modeling skills; whereas the culminating assignment was a final project about a community-based topic. The course helped students deepen their understanding of the issues addressed and strengthen their mathematical reasoning skills; and had a transformative effect on some students' perceptions of the usefulness of mathematics, of themselves as mathematics learners, and of their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MATHEMATICAL models
LITERACY
DISTRIBUTIVE justice
MATHEMATICS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10511970
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3/4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Primus: Problems, Resources & Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 136978495
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10511970.2018.1530705