Just Equations Executive Director Pamela Burdman provided a keynote address at the annual meetings of the National Numeracy Network, which was later adapted into a paper for its journal, Numeracy.
The paper explores the history and role of college math requirements, arguing that math courses should advance quantitative reasoning to propel conceptual understanding for students across all majors.
“Rather than thinking about math in terms of a list of math competencies or algebraic algorithms or algebraic procedures or any kind of procedures, our compass should be quantitative reasoning, regardless of the specific content students are expected to master,” Burdman writes.
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