The Quantitative Reasoning Classroom
This talk will discuss the benefits of a quantitative reasoning (QR) course, including how to structure your own QR course.
Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College
This talk will discuss the benefits of a quantitative reasoning (QR) course, and include tips on how to structure your own QR course to get students comfortable with modeling real-world, complex problems using relatively simple math. The speaker will include specific examples from his own course, pulling from real-life problems that ask students to model using Excel, interpret quantitative information, and make decisions about their civic, professional, and financial lives.
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About the speaker
Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College
Eric Gaze directs the Quantitative Reasoning (QR) program at Bowdoin College, is Chair of the Center for Learning and Teaching, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics Department. He is the current President of the National Numeracy Network (NNN 2013 – 2017). Eric has a QR textbook published with Pearson, Thinking Quantitatively: Communicating with Numbers, with blog: https://thinkingquantitatively.wordpress.com/.
Eric has given talks and led faculty workshops on the topics of QR Across the Curriculum, QR Assessment, and has served on review teams of QR programs. Eric was the Principal Investigator for a NSF TUES Type I grant (2012-14), Quantitative Literacy and Reasoning Assessment (QLRA) DUE 1140562, and has published articles on teaching and learning related to citizen literacy. Prior to coming to Bowdoin, Eric led the development of a Masters in Numeracy program for K-12 teachers at Alfred University as an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Education.