Caren Diefenderfer

Hollins University · Department of Mathematics

This chapter provides strategies for using media articles to facilitate opportunities for students to reason quantitatively. Evidence from university classrooms are provided, and tips for incorporating QR into existing classes are offered.

This textbook provides a selection of newspaper and other media articles focused on enhancing students' quantitative reasoning skills.

One of the advantages of focusing on quantitative reasoning is that it spans a wide variety of topics. As incoming president of the National Numeracy Network, I would like to take the opportunity of this editorial to tell my story of intellectual reward from finding common purpose in quantitative reasoning with colleagues from disciplines outside o...

In this third paper in a series describing the Quantitative Reasoning in the Contemporary World course, the authors provide an adaptation of the Association of American Colleges and Universities quantitative literacy VALUE rubric. Describing achievement levels in six core competencies (interpretation, representation, calculation, analysis/synthesis...

An intelligent citizen reads a newspaper account of an outbreak of disease in a small community. How can she tell if the number of those afflicted looms out of proportion to the expected incidence of disease? A parent must choose whether or not his child will receive a smallpox vaccine. How can he evaluate the benefits and the risks of such an inoc...