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Quantitative Fluency:
Creating a Curriculum
That Counts
Mississippi College
QEP Proposal
John Travis and David Magers
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Understanding how budgets, money,
insurance and investments work
Why Are Most Children Now
Above Average?!?
Understanding the proper
use of statistics
Headline:
Stimulus Package Pumps
a Mere Trillion into Local
Economies.
What really is a thousand,
a million, a billion, or a
trillion of something?
Looking for Math in All the
Right Places!
Numerical concepts in the Fine Arts –
the Golden Ratio,
Perspective, Harmonics, …
Headline:
Recent Attack Had
Acceptable Collateral
Damage.
Social implications of replacing
people with numbers –
when do quantitative skills
have limited application?
A Lottery is a Tax on People Who
Don't Understand Mathematics.
Randomness happens –
understanding probability
Numb3rs
Modeling reality
using quantitative
tools
Creating a Curriculum
That Counts!
Trivium
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Quadrivium
Arithmetic -Number in itself
Geometry - Number in space
Music/Harmonics - Number in time
Astronomy - Number in space and time
Creating a Curriculum
That Counts!
To prepare students for an increasingly
data driven work environment, this
proposal seeks to increase quantitative
knowledge and skills, both in breadth
and depth, across the university
curriculum
Creating a Curriculum
That Counts!
Major emphasis will be given to proper
placement of students in quantitative
courses, purposeful remediation when
necessary and an increased emphasis
on the proper use of quantitative tools
within all majors.
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Goals
Improve quantitative knowledge and
skills
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Goals
Create a supportive and engaging
learning environment for all students,
especially for those who have
experienced issues in the past with
quantitative reasoning
(decrease math phobia)
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Goals
Integration of quantitative concepts
in all disciplines
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Goals
Provide additional resources for
students who struggle with
quantitative reasoning under the
current system
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Objectives
Improve the drop out/pass rate for
and retention of students taking
quantitative courses by offering an
appropriate/placement instrument
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Objectives
Develop a common core of
quantitative reasoning skills for all
Mississippi College graduates
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Objectives
Implement a professionally staffed
Quantitative Reasoning Center for
use by students across all
disciplines
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Objectives
Administer a gate-keeper,
quantitative literacy exam to all
students as a requirement for
graduation
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Distinctive Traits
Instead of requiring all disciplines
to conform, individual
Departments will investigate
avenues where they can reinforce
quantitative skills throughout their
normal curriculum and using
discipline-specific methods.
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Distinctive Traits
A professionally staffed
Quantitative Reasoning Center will
be implemented for use by
students and faculty across all
disciplines and in particular those
utilizing statistics.
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Distinctive Traits
A qualified Director will be hired to
manage the center and serve as a
resource person to faculty in all
areas as they develop/modify their
curriculum.
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Distinctive Traits
A gate-keeper quantitative literacy
exam will be administered to all
students as a graduation
requirement.
Creating a Curriculum that
Counts: Distinctive Traits
Students who are not successful
will be required to enroll in a
special class (say, MAT 299)
designed specifically to develop
these student's quantitative
understanding.
Creating a Curriculum
That Counts!
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