Classroom Activities that Help Build Quantitative Literacy Skills Randy Richardson University of Arizona Please turn to page 3.15 of your Notebook and take the Math Pre-Test

CO2 Exercise You will work in pairs on this activity to plot monthly Mauna Loa CO2 data from 2003 to 2009. Please turn to page 3.17 of your Notebook. An updated version of the assignment is at: http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/interactive/examples/co2.html

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Creating your own activity Please think about a quantitative literacy skill you want your students to have. Think of, and write down, the basics of an activity/exercise where students would have the opportunity to practice this skill.

Creating your own activity, con’t Share your exercise with the person next to you, and get feedback.

Concluding Thoughts … Identify the quantitative literacy skills you want your students to have. Give the students opportunity to practice this skill. How will you know (assess) that students have mastered the skill? You are not alone! See: http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/index.html