[Qr-list] Coming March 19th - the fifteenth annual NECQL meeting at UMASS Boston

[judith moran]

Dear colleagues and friends of QL-

I'm writing to urge you to attend our spring fling - the fifteenth 
annual NECQL Meeting in Boston on Saturday, March 19, at UMASS Boston.

Maura Mast has put together a super program featuring a talk by 
Deborah Hughes Hallet (I've copied the agenda below) and we are 
hoping for a great turnout.

Hope to see you there, compare notes, plan for the future.

Happy spring?

Judy

PS the website has directions and lots of information in a much more 
presentable form than my copy below.  Check it out: - and please 
REGISTER!

http://quantitativereasoning.net/necql15-agenda/




NECQL XV - Agenda
Northeast Consortium on Quantitative Literacy
XVth annual meeting
UMass Boston

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Agenda

     * 9:00 Arrival and continental breakfast
     * 9:30 Morning Session
       Climate Change: What Do the Data Suggest?
       Deb Hughes Hallet
       dhh at math.arizona.edu
       Deborah_Hughes_Hallett at Harvard.edu
       Predictions of climate change are based on mathematics and 
statistics, yet they are not universally accepted.  The public 
controversy shows the need for an evidence-based discussion. 
Students can be motivated to participate in that discussion, and 
hence to learn the mathematics underpinning the predictions, since 
they know they may find themselves managing major changes in society, 
some devastating, if those predictions are correct.

     * 10:30 Break
     * 11:00 Panel discussion
     * 12:00 Lunch
     * 1:00 Afternoon Sessions (perhaps parallel)
           o Ethan Bolker and Maura Mast

           o Common Sense: a ten year plan for quantitative literacy

           o Several years ago we started to collaborate on an 
approach to teaching quantitative reasoning that addressed the 
question "what do we want our students to remember ten years from 
now?" rather than  "what should the syllabus cover?"  Starting with 
that question  dramatically changed both what and how we teach. The 
course and the text we have developed incorporates what we have 
learned about helping students bring common sense and common 
knowledge and appropriate useful memorable mathematics to bear when 
facing genuine questions that require them to make sense of 
numbers.We will discuss our approach and some student responses to 
it. We'll also provide you with a draft of our nearly complete 
manuscript.

     * 3:30 Discussion to plan NECQL XVI

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