Artigo Revisado por pares

Why Numbers Count: Quantitative Literacy For Tomorrow's America

1998; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 82; Issue: 600 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/019263659808260020

ISSN

1930-1405

Autores

Lynn Arthur Steen,

Tópico(s)

Statistics Education and Methodologies

Resumo

Numeracy math literacy dominated by the spreadsheet is the currency of modern life. This authoritative study makes the case that innumeracy math illiteracy is rapidly becoming an active agent of disenfranchisement. Asked how we came to this point, the responses of a number of people who deal with math every day are published collectively here and make interesting and sobering reading. (http://www.stolaf.edu/other/extend/Numeracy/numeracy.html)

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