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Kathleen W. Craver - Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences - 9781475810509 - V9781475810509
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Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences

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Description for Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: JNT; JNU; YQH; YQN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474.
History and social sciences educators have been charged with ensuring that our students are quantitatively literate. Being able to integrate research data in the form of graphs, charts, and tables and deconstruct quantitative evidence to address questions and solve problems is no longer the domain of mathematicians. Being quantitatively literate is considered an educational imperative in a data-drenched world that holds so many employment challenges. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781475810509
SKU
V9781475810509
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-15

About Kathleen W. Craver
Kathleen W. Craver, Ph.D., is Head Librarian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She is the author of five books, including School Library Media Centers in the 21st Century (1994), Teaching Electronic Literacy (1997), Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History (1999), Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists (2002), and ... Read more

Reviews for Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences
Craver uses a Web–based approach to transform the national common core standards requirement for quantitative literacy in the humanities into a powerful instrument for teachers. She provides history and social science educators with resource sites for lesson plans, educational activities, and opportunities to use the search software that accompanies these sites. Many teachers and their students avoid using numbers as ... Read more

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