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Problem-Based Learning:
From Ideas to Solutions through Communication
A Workshop Series for Faculty Members and Teaching Assistants
Friday afternoons, UD Campus, Fall 2004
Room 110, Memorial Hall, starting at 1:30pm
Friday, October 22
Principles and Practice of Quantitative Literacy
Bill Briggs, University of Colorado at Denver
www-math.cudenver.edu/~wbriggs/
Quantitative literacy/reasoning has been variously described as a collection of skills and attitudes that encompass critical thinking, numerical estimation and calculation, facility with data, logical analysis, healthy skepticism, and importantly, confidence with all of the above. The need for quantitative literacy arises across the disciplines in various forms, which poses fascinating challenges for teachers who wish to weave it into the undergraduate curriculum. In this session, we will briefly survey some of the teaching issues related to QL/QR, and then proceed - with full audience participation - to examples, case studies, and problem-solving.
Please bring a calculator!
