Papers, Reports, and Books About QL/QR

This page lists reports and case statements about QL/QR, individual papers about QL/QR, and books (of value to students and instructors) that have QL/QR content or spirit.

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Reports and Case Statements

• Beyond Crossroads, AMATYC, 2005
• Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy, National Council on Education and the Disciplines, Lynn Arthur Steen, ed., 2001
• Why Numbers Count: Qualitative Literacy for Tomorrow's America, The College Board, 1997
• Crossroads in Mathematics, American Mathematical Association for Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), 1995
• Quantitative Reasoning for College Graduates: A Complement to the Standards, Mathematical Association of America, 1995
• CUPM Quantitative Literacy Committee
• Moving Beyond Myths: Revitalizing Undergraduate Mathematics, National Academy Press, 1991
• What Work Requires of Schools: A SCANS Report for 2000, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC, 1991
• A Challenge of Numbers: People in the Mathematical Sciences, National Academy Press, 1990
• Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education, National Academy Press, 1989

Papers

• Quantitative Reasoning: Mathematics Across the Curriculum, Klement Teixeira, Borough of Manhattan Community College
• What Mathematics Should All College Student Know?, Bill Briggs, in Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy, Rick Gillman, ed. Mathematical Association of America, 2004.
• Developing QR at a Two-Year College, Klement Teixeira, Borough of Manhattan Community College
• Student Engagement in a Quantitative Literacy Course, Bill Briggs, Mitch Handelsman, Nora Sullivan, AMATYC Review, Fall 2004
• Quantitative Literacy and SIAM, Bill Briggs, SIAM News, April 2002.
• Educating for Numeracy: A Challenging Responsibility, Bernard Madison, Notice of the AMS, February 2002
• Reading, Writing, and Numeracy, Lynn Steen, Liberal Education, Summer 2001
• Numeracy: The New Literacy for a Data-Drenched Society, Lynn Steen, Educational Leadership, October 1999
• General Education Mathematics: New Approaches for a New Millennium, Jeff Bennett and Bill Briggs, AMATYC Review, Fall 1999
• Reflections on QL, Lynn Steen and Bernard Madison, 1999
• Numeracy, Lynn Steen, Daedalus, Spring 1990

Books with QL/QR Content or Spirit

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, P. Bernstein, John Wiley, 1996
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, J.A. Paulos, Basic Books, 1995
• All the Math That's Fit to Print : Articles from the Manchester Guardian, Keith Devlin, Mathematical Association of America, 1994
• Beyond Numeracy: Ruminations of a Number Man, J. Paulos, Vintage, 1992
• Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, D.H. Meadows, D.L. Meadows, J. Randers, Chelsea Green Pub. Co., Vermont, 1992.
• Billions and Billions, C. Sagan, Random House, 1997
• Can You Win?, M. Orkin, W. H. Freeman, New York, 1991
• Challenging Lateral Thinking Puzzles, P. Sloane, D. MacHale, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1993
• Damned Lies and Statistics, J. Best, University of California Press, 2001
• Ecological Numeracy: Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Issues, R. Herendeen, John Wiley, 1998
• Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics, E. Rothstein, Random House, 1995
• Envisioning Information, E. Tufte, Cheshire, Connecticut Graphics Press, 1983
• Fermat's Enigma, S. Singh, Anchor Books, 1997
• Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis, A. A. Bartlett, American Journal of Physics, September 1978
• Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension, Benoit Mandelbrot, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1977
• Games, Gods, and Gambling, F.N. David, Dover, 1998
• Go Figure! The Numbers You Need for Everyday Life, N. Hopkins and J. Mayne, Visible Ink Press, 1992
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, D.R. Hofstadter, Basic Books, New York, 1979
• Goodbye, Descartes :The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind, K. Devlin, Wiley, 1997
• Great Lateral Thinking Puzzles, P. Sloane, D. MacHale, Sterling PublishingCo., Inc., 1994
• How Many People Can the Earth Support, J.E. Cohen, W.W. Norton, New York, 1995
• How to Lie With Statistics, D. Huff, W. W. Norton, 1952
• How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians, R. Hooke, Dekker, 1983
• How to Solve It, G. Polya, Princeton University Press, 1945, 1985
• Innumeracy, J.A. Paulos, Hill and Wang, 1988
• Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability, W. Weaver, Anchor Books, Garden City, NJ, 1963
• Life by the Numbers, K. Devlin, John Wiley, 1998
• Logic and Knowledge; Essays, 1901-1950, Bertrand Russell, Edited by Robert Charles Marsh, G. Allen & Unwin, 1956
• Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd, S. Loyd, Dover, 1959
• Mathematics, David Bergamai, ed., Time Life Books, Alexandria VA, 1980
• Mathematics, the Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe, K. Devlin, Scientific American Library, New York, 1994
• Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science, T. Levenson, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1994
• Misused Statistics: Straight Talk for Twisted Numbers, A. Jaffe and H. Spirer, Marcel Dekker, 1987
• Nature's Numbers, I. Stewart, 1995, Basic Books, New York.
• Number: The Language of Science, T. Dantzig, Macmillan, 1930
• Once Upon a Number, J. Paulos, Basic Books, 1998
• Overcoming Math Anxiety, Sheila Tobias, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1978. Revised edition, W.W. Norton, New York, 1993
• Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, J.D. Barrow, Little Brown and Company, 1992
• Probabilities in Everyday Life, J. McGervey, Ivy Books, New York, 1989
• Randomness, D. Bennett, Harvard University Press, 1998
• Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, J. Bennett, M. Triola, W. Briggs, Addison Wesley Longman, 2001
• Statistics With a Sense of Humor, F. Pyrczak, Fred Pyrczak Publisher, 1989
• Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America, C. Crossen, Simon and Schuster, 1994
• The Arithmetic of Life, G. Shaffner, 1999
• The Artithmetic of Life and Death, G. Shaffner, Ballantine Books, 2001
• The Bell Curve Debate, R. Jacoby and N. Glauberman (eds), Times Books, New York, 1995
• The Broken Dice and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance, I. Ekeland, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993
• The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, L. Gonick and W. Smith, Harper Collins, 1993
• The Complete How to Figure It, D. Huff, W.W. Norton, 1996
• The Divine Proportion: A Study in Mathematical Beauty, H.E. Huntley, Dover Books, New York, 1970
• The Golden Mean, C.F. Linn, Doubleday, New York, 1974
• The Jungles of Randomness, I. Peterseon, John Wiley, 1998
• The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the 20^th Century, D. Salsburg, W.H. Freeman, 2001
• The Mathematical Tourist, I. Peterson, W.H. Freeman, New York, 1988
• The Mismeasure of Man, S.J. Gould, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1981
• The Mismeasure of Woman, C. Tavris, Touchstone Books, New York, 1993
• The Population Explosion, P.R. Ehrlich and A.H. Ehrlich, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990
• The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making, S. Plous, McGraw-Hill, 1993
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, M. Gladwell, Little Brown, 2000
• The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty, K.C. Cole, Harcourt Brace, 1998
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, E. Tufte, Cheshire, Connecticut Graphics Press, 1983
• 200% of Nothing, A.K. Dewdney, John Wiley and Sons, 1993
• Vital Signs, compiled by the Worldwatch Institute, W.W. Norton, New York, 1998 (updated annually)
• What Arethe Odds? Chance in Everyday Life, L. Krantz, Harper Perennial, New York, 1992