Gizem Karaali|Edwin Villafane-Hernandez|Joanne Taylor
What's in a Name? A Critical Review of Definitions of Quantitative Literacy, Numeracy, and Quantitative Reasoning
Pomona College|Pomona College
article aims bring together various threads eclectic literature make scholarship around theme quantitative literacyin investigating meanings terms like quantitative literacy quantitative reasoning numeracy seek common ground common themes common goals aspirations community practitionersa decade ago terms relatively new public sphere today policy makers accrediting agencies routinely inserting general education conversationshaving good representative perhaps even compact easily digestible definitions terms might come handy public relations contexts well situations practitioners need measure evaluate success communicate goals practice othersfinding definitions expected difficult taskwe offer analysis clarifying framework practitioners looking sharpen definitions others keen finalizing definitionsmore specifically argue indeed common thread among terms involved competence interacting myriad mathematical statistical representations real world contexts daily life work situations civic engagementfurthermore propose knowledge content captured individual terms placed continuum statisticsdataarithmeticmathematicslogic