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Numeracy and Quantitative Literacy

This section offers excerpts reprinted with permission from "Why Numbers Count: Quantitative Literacy for Tomorrow's America," edited by Lynn Arthur Steen, Copyright (c) College Entrance Examination Board, 1997. All rights reserved. [Paperback $19.95, ISBN: 0-87447-5775; Hardover $29.95, ISBN: 0-87447-5031. For orders, call: 800-323-7155.]

Foreword by Robert Orrill
The New Literacy by Lynn Arthur Steen
Defining Quantitative Literacy
The Triumph of Numbers: Civic Implications of Quantitative Literacy by Theodore Porter
Civic Numeracy: Does the Public Care? by Deborah Wadsworth
Making Mathematics the Great Equalizer by Shirley Malcom
Numeracy: Imperatives of a Forgotten Goal by Iddo Gal
Thinking Quantitatively About Science by F. James Rutherford
Mere Literacy is Not Enough by George W. Cobb
Solving Problems in the Real World by Henry O. Pollak
Quantitative Practices by Peter J. Denning
Organizing Mathematics Education Around Work by Gary Hoachlander

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Last Update: July 17, 1997