Achieving Quantitative Literacy
Subtitle: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education (Maa Notes)
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA); Mathematical Association of America
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780883858165
Subjects: Study and teaching (Higher); Mathematics / Study & Teaching; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; United States; Study & Teaching; Mathematics; Methods Of Instruction And Study In Higher Education; Higher; Literacy; Congresses
First sentence: In the 1920s the United States crossed the threshold into universal secondary education, thereby raising new questions about the role of education for employment, for engaged citizenship, and for democratic well being.