PPT-Quantitative Reasoning

Task Force Final Report 15 September 2016 Guiding Principle Educational Policy must balance access and opportunity to achieve equity Recommendation I Define quantitative reasoning Recommendation I. MA 103. Gerald Kruse and David Drews. Juniata College. Huntingdon, PA. kruse@juniata.edu. drews@juniata.edu. Outline of Status Report/Mentoring Session. History. Experimental Design. Data. Tentative. - Charles Sanders Peirce. Using Models of Reasoning. A Return to Logos. Reasoning from Specific Instances. Progressing from a number of particular facts to a general conclusion. .. This is also known as inductive reasoning.. Rebecca Wulf. Ivy Tech Lafayette. rwulf@ivytech.edu. . Ben Markham. Ivy Tech Bloomington. bmarkham@ivytech.edu. . Sharon Koch. Ivy Tech Gary. s. koch12@ivytech.edu. . Ivy Tech Community College. 30 . PNW-MAA . NExT. 2010. Quantitative Literacy. Is Necessary For:. Personal welfare and quality of life. Health,. Safety. Financial Planning. Our collective well being. Social . decission. making. Functioning of democratic society. Teaching . Probability and Decision Theory in . Foundations . of Logical . Reasoning. Quantitative Literacy in Philosophy. [. Quantitative literacy] requires logic, data analysis, and probability….It enables individuals to analyze evidence, to read graphs, to understand logical arguments, to detect logical fallacies, to understand evidence, and to evaluate risks. Quantitative literacy means knowing how to reason and how to think. . Imaging Biomarkers Alliance (. QIBA. ®. ) . Edward F. Jackson, PhD – Chair, QIBA. Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Physics. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health. PHYS 310. February 21, 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard. Design is choice...The principles should not be applied rigidly or in a peevish spirit. What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity, not the complication of the simple. . A Faculty-Led Project for. Curriculum Alignment and Streamlining of . Quantitative Requirements at Community Colleges. Panelists:. Alexandra W. Logue, CASE, Graduate Center. Mari Watanabe-Rose, Central Office of Academic Affairs. The Paradox. Illiteracy carries social shame. Innumeracy (“being bad at math”) is acceptable. Increasingly quantitative, data-driven world. The Project. 2014 Collaboration with Complete College America and . Fibonacci: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9cX_14rf4g. Math Across the Curriculum. Rob Kimball. Or. If we are not going to use it outside of math class, why do we. have to learn it?. Or. We downloaded some data to a spreadsheet, calculated some statistics, and used those statistics to support oral arguments….. - Charles Sanders Peirce. On the Radar. Researching the Persuasive Speech Assignment. Due Wednesday on . WebCT. (by 11:59 p.m.). Exam Two. This Friday in Lecture. Study Guide on Course Website. Workshops for the Persuasive Speech. LSP 120: Quantitative Reasoning and Technological Literacy Section 118 Özlem Elgün Solving for the rate (percent change) Solving for the initial value (a.k.a. old value, reference value) Solving for time (using logarithms) Programming tools. cse331-staff@cs.washington.edu. . s. lides borrowed and adapted from Alex . Mariakis. . and CSE 390a . Outline. Reasoning about code. Developer tools. Eclipse and Java versions. ssh. Presented by Dr. John Willems. Sponsored . by the Committee for the Assessment of Student . Learning (CASL). How does EIU measure up?. CLA+ RESULTS – Quantitative Reasoning: In AY 2018, CASL administered the CLA+ exam to 84 freshmen and 89 senior students. The mean score in quantitative reasoning for EIU freshmen was 67 points lower than the National Average for freshmen while the mean scores for EIU seniors was 27 points lower than the National Average for seniors Although there is a much larger gain of 87 made by EIU seniors than the National Average gain of 47, EIU seniors still graduate with significantly less skill in this area than the national average. .