In a world drenched in data, we must ensure that students know the meaning of numbers. Our world is awash in numbers. Headlines report the latest interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, hikes or ...

The media was abuzz in January with news reports, opinions and editorials sounding alarms over a study that said a significant portion of U.S. college students lack some very basic quantitative skills ...

U.S. college students are falling behind their counterparts in other parts of the world in terms of their ability to calculate basic quantitative problems, such as automobile fuel consumption or the ...

A fuller development of a quantitative literacy scale could include such skills as algebraic reasoning (with an emphasis on modeling rather than symbol manipulation), data analysis, geometric and ...

WASHINGTON — Nearing a degree, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food. Those are the sobering ...

The Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (Title II of the Workforce Investment Act (1998) defines literacy as “an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak in English, compute, and solve ...