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hub and spoke model for CGT delivery in the MENA region. Capacity in the MENA region to provide CGTs is severely hindered by a multitude of challenges, especially in countries impacted by political
Consultant, and holds a PhD in political science, the author’s thesis is that while an advanced, democratic society can only be just with a numerate citizenry, fostering numeracy is not easy. In this article ... career, I have come to appreciate the utility quantitative reasoning has in our social, economic, and political lives. I tell students that statistics is not mathematics. Unlike academic mathematics, I say
many alternatives involving quantitative reasoning as well as considering biological, cultural, economic, social, and political factors influencing social justice and civil rights decisions and policies ... human population. The authors argue forcefully for a critical engagement with actual data and an understanding of quantitative relationships among biological, cultural, demographic, political, and social
compounding. We also find some differences in financial knowledge depending on the political opinion of the respondents. Finally we show that these differences in financial knowledge are correlated with ... literacy: women, young people, and the elderly as well as less-educated people. We also find that financial literacy is correlated with political affiliation, which could reflect differences in opinion
Mercedes-Benz, in spite of geopolitical insecurities and a volatile semiconductor market, the global demand for vehicles remains robust; nevertheless, due to the unstable political situation and ongoing
Andrew Hacker. The Math Myth, and Other STEM Delusions (New York, NY: The New Press). 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-62097-068-3 (also available as an e-book). The political scientist Andrew Hacker argues that ... political scientist with a long list of publications. He is the go-to social scientist for The New York Review of Books, where he publishes thoughtful review essays every few months. Often, these incorporate
public problems. Specifically, I examined a selection of political arguments found in newspaper editorials in order to better characterize the ways in which quantitative literacy can and cannot aid in ... the complex economic, political, and social health of the country, and citizens need to be able to decode and decipher this modern-day ‘political arithmetic.’ (Cohen 2003) In the Unites States many
map of Orlando for tourists, driving-time maps, county-wide population maps, county-wide multivariable population and income maps, world political map, land use maps, and cartograms). The analysis of ... that are constrained to lie within a bona fide administrative unit. The administrative unit may be based on political jurisdictions such as cities, counties, states, countries, school districts
closed-loop systems and obtain new recyclable materials from waste. I firmly believe that our industry must put sustainability at the core of its philosophy in order to be successful in the future. The
and company owners, the book ends with OBM (open-book management)—a management philosophy based on financial literacy. The vision of this book is businesses in which all employees are financially ... Part Eight and the main part of the text, the authors describe open-book management (OBM), “a management philosophy based on financial literacy” (p. 204). “OBM at its best creates an environment where
expertise is confronted with a dangerous mixture: Political decision-makers prefer not to listen to the scientists, while in a media world that is geared toward entertainment or among the general public
the politics involved in defining and labelling people as literate. Sometimes considered separately as (socio-) cultural or (socio-) political turns, history and power affect not only how people make ... -scrutiny. Besides the potential benefits of conceptual and analytical work in developing numeracy programs, nearly fifteen years has passed. Changes to social, cultural, technological, and political
discussed how the political and economic meltdown contributed to the massive disaster. Or, if your interest is to explore a different quantitative question, Johnson discusses the actual paths that people ... without examining its data.” What could be more dangerous? Let us look at two other diagrams that highlight the revolutionary impact of Nightingale’s intervention in Crimea and her later political advocacy
empower individuals to distinguish authentic and fake news, make informed decisions, and formulate justifiable positions on social, economic, and political issues?in other words, to be functional and ... political campaigns. An understanding of the natural world, social sciences, and economic systems requires number sense and ability to make estimates and numerical comparisons. A familiarity with financial
significant architectural advantages that have a relevant influence on sustainability. This requires a different component and system design philosophy. Cooperations within the automotive industry, but also in
cannot recall even once being asked to address a serious quantitative question in completing a large array of courses devoted to history, literature, philosophy, and the arts. This surely contributed to my ... contextual uses of mathematics that was missing. My own school and college education had no art, no philosophy, and very little literature. Writing about mathematics or even writing with numbers was mostly
and create a global network. Anyone who ignores this will be driving the environment, the mobility system and the economy over a cliff. Unfortunately, the leading political decision-makers do not seem
and Faculty Director of the Empirical Reasoning Center at Barnard College. He specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. economic history, the political economy of contemporary U.S. criminal justice ... significantly increase program outlays (National Research Council 1995) . Meanwhile, CEA members raised the decidedly political concern about ?score-keeping,? as the poverty measure had also become a metric to
university as a small, enclosed, elite institution dedicated to the transmission of tradition and knowledge versus the utilitarian philosophy that the university should be open to all and so integrated with ... -solving, an extension of the quantitative into the political and social, and so forth. (p. 166) Murray‘s point reveals the levels of complexity involved in training teachers to teach QL: how do we give them
