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Quantitative Fluency: Creating a Curriculum That Counts

Quantitative Fluency: Creating a Curriculum That Counts. Mississippi College QEP Proposal John Travis and David Magers. Rent-To-Own is a Great Way To Have What You Need Right Now – Not! Understanding how budgets, money, insurance and investments work.

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Quantitative Fluency: Creating a Curriculum That Counts

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  1. Quantitative Fluency: Creating a Curriculum That Counts Mississippi College QEP Proposal John Travis and David Magers

  2. Rent-To-Own is a Great Way To Have What You Need Right Now – Not!Understanding how budgets, money, insurance and investments work Why Are Most Children Now Above Average?!? Understanding the proper use of statistics

  3. Headline: Stimulus Package Pumps a Mere Trillion into Local Economies. What really is a thousand, a million, a billion, or a trillion of something?

  4. Looking for Math in All the Right Places! Numerical concepts in the Fine Arts – the Golden Ratio, Perspective, Harmonics, …

  5. Headline: Recent Attack Had Acceptable Collateral Damage. Social implications of replacing people with numbers – when do quantitative skills have limited application?

  6. A Lottery is a Tax on People Who Don't Understand Mathematics.Randomness happens – understanding probability Numb3rsModeling reality using quantitative tools

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. Improve quantitative knowledge and skills Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals

  11. 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

  12. Integration of quantitative concepts in all disciplines Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals

  13. Provide additional resources for students who struggle with quantitative reasoning under the current system Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals

  14. 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

  15. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives • Develop a common core of quantitative reasoning skills for all Mississippi College graduates

  16. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives • Implement a professionally staffed Quantitative Reasoning Center for use by students across all disciplines

  17. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives • Administer a gate-keeper, quantitative literacy exam to all students as a requirement for graduation

  18. 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.

  19. 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.  

  20. 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. 

  21. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Distinctive Traits • A gate-keeper quantitative literacy exam will be administered to all students as a graduation requirement. 

  22. 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.  

  23. Creating a Curriculum That Counts! We welcome your comments… mcmathqep.pbworks.com Cartoons by Marshall Ramsey, ClarionLedger.com

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