Open AccessLooking Back at Quantitative Reasoning
Author(s) -
William L. Briggs
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
numeracy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1936-4660
DOI - 10.5038/1936-4660.14.2.1392
Subject(s) - mathematics education , virtue , qualitative reasoning , numeracy , pedagogy , psychology , computer science , sociology , political science , artificial intelligence , literacy , law
A teacher looks back on three decades of teaching, pondering, and writing about quantitative reasoning (QR) and shares a few lessons learned. The skills that we teach in QR courses are more important than ever in providing students with a sense of civic virtue: the ability to be engaged and informed citizens in an increasingly complex and quantitative world.