Introducing MAA Notes #88: Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education

Abstract

Tunstall, Samuel, Gizem Karaali, and Victor Piercey, eds. 2019. Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education (Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America) 258 pp. ISBN 978-1614443247. This brief essay introduces readers to Shifting Contexts, Stable Core: Advancing Quantitative Literacy in Higher Education, a new edited volume published by the Mathematical Association of America. We begin by describing the story behind the volume, and then outline its four major parts: "A Bird’s Eye View," "Curriculum for Quantitative Literacy," "Quantitative Literacy in an Institutional Context," and "Perspectives from the Quantitative Literacy Community." We end with an excerpt from the volume's first chapter, "What Do We Mean by Quantitative Literacy?" by Forest Fisher.

Keywords

• Mathematical Association of America
• quantitative literacy
• numeracy
• quantitative reasoning
• higher education