CREATING AND STRENGTHENING
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS IN QUANTITATIVE LITERACY
David Bressoud
June 14-18, 2005
Macalester College
St. Paul, MN
With support from US Department of Education FIPSE Grant P116B020918
Quantitative literacy is ’the power and habit of mind to search out
quantitative information, critique it, reflect on it, and apply it in
one’s public, personal, and professional lifeâ? (National Numeracy
Network). It is no more the exclusive preserve of mathematicians than
writing belongs to the English department or critical reasoning to
Philosophy, but mathematicians do have an obligation to encourage and
support the development of quantitative literacy programs. How do you
teach quantitative literacy? How do you measure it? How can you develop
a program that will help students come to recognize its importance and
be able to use its methods across all of their interests?There are now
a variety of interdisciplinary programs that bring
different departments from across campus together to teach quantitative
literacy. Assessment strategies are under development and are being
tested. The goal of this workshop is for interdisciplinary campus teams
to learn about many of the programs and assessment strategies that are
now running, to gain familiarity with the tools, materials, and case
studies that these programs have generated, and to have the opportunity
to adapt and build upon these materials for use on their own campuses.
The workshop will be held on the campus of Macalester College in St.
Paul, Minnesota, starting with dinner on Tuesday, June 14 and
concluding Saturday morning, June 18. For more information, please
visit the workshop webpage at
http://www.macalester.edu/qm4pp/prep.html
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