Quantitative Literacy Web Sites

Quantitative Literacy Resource Drafts

• QL Resources. Table of contents to College Board QL report.
• QL Interviews. Perspective on QL from education and business.
• QL Requirements. Profiles of QL requirements on college campuses.
• QL Projects. Miscellaneous QL-related projcts, past and present.
• QL Web Sites. This list of Ql-related web sites.
• QL References. Partially annotated bibliography of QL-related publications.
• New Liberal Arts Project. Report of a Sloan Foundation project, 1980-92.
• A Calculating People. The Spread of Numeracy in Early America.
• Quantitative Literacy for College Students. A 1989 survey of college QL requirements.
• The Measure of Reality. Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600.
• Precollege Preparation for College Mathematics. Report of a South Carolina study.
• Varieties of Quantitative Literacy. Diverse perspectives on the meaning of numeracy.

National

• Math in Daily Life An Annenberg/CPB site with eight typical tasks.

• Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes, by Paul Cox. QL gaffes by advertisers, reporters, politicians, and activists.

• Statistics Every Writer Should Know, by Robert Niles. Simple explanations ofcommon media topics such as rates, confidence intervals, and samples sizes.

• A Journalist's Guide to Finding Data on the Internet, by Robert Niles. Reliable sources of basic data from agriculature to weather, from demographics to politics, from education to energy.

International

• Implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy (UK). Final report of Great Britain's "Numeracy Task Force" which focuses on mathematics for pupils in primary schools.

• Leverhulme Numeracy Research Programme. A project at Kings College, London, to develop better understanding of critical factors that influence the progresson of primary school mathematics.

• National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (UK). Report of the "Dearing Committee," a 1700 page analysis of higher education in Great Britain.

• Responses to the Dearing Inguiry Report. Links to many organizations and universities that formulated responses to the report of the Dearing Inquiry into higher education in Great Britain.

• Public Awareness & School Support for Maths (PASS Maths) A site with puzzles, profiles, news, and applications intended to stimulate student interest in mathematics.

• Millenium Mathematics Project An effort in the UK to reverse the impact of poor teaching of mathematics that has made it a subject that "people are proud of being bad at."

• AAMT Numeracy Benchmarks. August 1997 report on numeracy from the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT).

• Why Numeracy? by Marjorie Carss Brief report to Rotary Down Under (Australia) making the case for numeracy.

Professional Societies

• MAA Subcommittee on Quantitative Literacy. A subcommittee of CUPM.

• Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates. 1994 Report of the MAA Subcommittee on QL.

• The Adult Numeracy Network (ANN). Formerly the Adult Numeracy Practitioners' Network.

• ANN Numeracy List. An archive of the "numeracy" mailing list sponsored by the Adult Numeracy Network and located at majordomo@world.std.com.

• NADE Mathematics Special Interest Group.Newsletters, officer, and links to related web sites.

• National Association for Developmental Education (NADE).

• Adult Numeracy Practitioners Network (Boston Branch). Family math, projects, and links for adult numeracy.

Undergraduate QL Programs

• Stockton College: Quantitative Reasoning Across Disciplines (QUAD). An NSF-supported QR curriculum project with two foci: reasoning-intensive mathematics courses, and QR-intensive courses in other disciplines.

• Trinity College: Laboratories and Literacy. An NSF supported project to infuse mathematics and science in the humanities.

• Bowdoin College: The Quantitative Skills Program. A program to help students achieve college level of skill in computation, estimation, probability, statistics, quantitative reasoning, graphical analysis and algebraic functions.

Who's Counting? Jon Allen Paulos on ABC

Who's Counting? is a monthly column on quantitative literacy by John Allen Paulos that appears on ABC.com. Each column has links to related stories, problems to solve, and solutions (at the end). Site includes columns, chats, profiles, and puzzles:

Columns

Relationships by the Numbers: Who Knows Whom in Journalism.

Influencing Opinion: First Impressions Count.

Wierd Science: Wierd Ideas May Not Be So Wacky After All.

Sex, Statistically Speaking: Finding the Truth Behind the Numbers

A Tale of Two Numbers: From Y2K to PY2K.

Chats:

Do You Believe the Polls?

Sampling and Superstitions.

Combining Stories and Math.

Profiles and Puzzles:

Writings of a Mathematician: Profile--John Allen Paulos

Parable of Furious Feminists: Stock Markets and Unfaithful Husbands.

The Logician's Pick-Up Line: Looking for Someone Too Logical.

The Numbers of Perception: Why Minorities Encounter More Racism.

The Law of Missing Socks: Murphy's Law Isn't Just Bad Luck.