1. Quantitative Fluency: Creating a Curriculum That Counts
Mississippi College
QEP Proposal
John Travis and David Magers

6. Why Are Most Children Now Above Average?!?
Rent-To-Own is a Great Way To Have What You Need Right Now – Not! Understanding how budgets, money, insurance and investments work
Why Are Most Children Now Above Average?!?
Understanding the proper use of statistics

7. Stimulus Package Pumps a Mere Trillion into Local Economies.
Headline:
Stimulus Package Pumps a Mere Trillion into Local Economies.
What really is a thousand,
a million, a billion, or a
trillion of something?

8. Looking for Math in All the Right Places!
Numerical concepts in the Fine Arts –
the Golden Ratio,
Perspective, Harmonics, …

9. Recent Attack Had Acceptable Collateral Damage.
Headline:
Recent Attack Had Acceptable Collateral Damage.
Social implications of replacing people with numbers –
when do quantitative skills
have limited application?

10. Numb3rs Modeling reality using quantitative tools
A Lottery is a Tax on People Who Don't Understand Mathematics. Randomness happens – understanding probability
Numb3rs Modeling reality
using quantitative
tools

12. Creating a Curriculum That Counts!
Trivium
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Quadrivium
Arithmetic -Number in itself
Geometry - Number in space
Music/Harmonics - Number in time
Astronomy - Number in space and time

13. Creating a Curriculum That Counts!
To prepare students for an increasingly data driven work environment, this proposal seeks to increase quantitative knowledge and skills, both in breadth and depth, across the university curriculum

14. Creating a Curriculum That Counts!
Major emphasis will be given to proper placement of students in quantitative courses, purposeful remediation when necessary and an increased emphasis on the proper use of quantitative tools within all majors.

15. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals
Improve quantitative knowledge and skills

16. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals
Create a supportive and engaging learning environment for all students, especially for those who have experienced issues in the past with quantitative reasoning
(decrease math phobia)

17. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals
Integration of quantitative concepts in all disciplines

18. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Goals
Provide additional resources for students who struggle with quantitative reasoning under the current system

19. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives
Improve the drop out/pass rate for and retention of students taking quantitative courses by offering an appropriate/placement instrument

20. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives
Develop a common core of quantitative reasoning skills for all Mississippi College graduates

21. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives
Implement a professionally staffed Quantitative Reasoning Center for use by students across all disciplines

22. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Objectives
Administer a gate-keeper, quantitative literacy exam to all students as a requirement for graduation

23. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Distinctive Traits
Instead of requiring all disciplines to conform, individual Departments will investigate avenues where they can reinforce quantitative skills throughout their normal curriculum and using discipline-specific methods.

24. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Distinctive Traits
A professionally staffed Quantitative Reasoning Center will be implemented for use by students and faculty across all disciplines and in particular those utilizing statistics.  

25. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Distinctive Traits
A qualified Director will be hired to manage the center and serve as a resource person to faculty in all areas as they develop/modify their curriculum. 

26. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Distinctive Traits
A gate-keeper quantitative literacy exam will be administered to all students as a graduation requirement. 

27. Creating a Curriculum that Counts: Distinctive Traits
Students who are not successful will be required to enroll in a special class (say, MAT 299) designed specifically to develop these student's quantitative understanding.  

28. Creating a Curriculum That Counts!
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