Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills In History And The Social Sciences: A Web-Based Common Core Standards Approach

History and social sciences educators have been charged with ensuring that our students are quantitatively literate. The internet contains a treasure trove of valid and reliable sources of quantitative data that history and social sciences teachers can easily use to satisfy the quantitative literacy requirements of the National Common Core Standards. This book contains lesson ideas, websites, numerical critical thinking questions to incorporate numerical literacy skills into class activities and assignments. Also contains lists of best practices and examples for interpreting, visualizing, and displaying quantitative data.

• • Author: Kathleen W. Craver
• • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• • Publication Date: Jul 22, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 208 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1475810512
• • ISBN-13: 9781475810516