Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences

Kathleen W. Craver

doi:10.5771/9781475810523

Summary

History and social sciences educators have been charged with ensuring that our students are quantitatively literate. Being able to integrate research data in the form of graphs, charts, and tables and deconstruct quantitative evidence to address questions and solve problems is no longer the domain of mathematicians. Being quantitatively literate is considered an educational imperative in a data-drenched world that holds so many employment challenges. The internet contains a treasure trove of valid and reliable sources of quantitative data that history and social sciences teachers can easily use to satisfy the quantitative literacy requirements of the National Common Core Standards.

This book features 85 interesting and exciting multi-century and multicultural web sites that are accompanied by numerical critical thinking questions and activities. Teachers can pose the questions to their entire class or individually assign them. It also contains lists of best practices and examples for interpreting, visualizing, and displaying quantitative data. History and social sciences educators will find this book an indispensable tool for incorporating numerical literacy skills into their class activities and assignments.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-1050-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-1052-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 191
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
1. The Need for Instructional Change No access
2. Responding to the Workplace No access
3. Making the Connection No access
4. Obtaining the Skills No access
5. Rethinking the Textbook Approach No access
6. Required Hardware, Software, and Expertise No access
7. Book Arrangement and Recommended Use No access
8. Site Selection Criteria No access
9. Internet Idiosyncracies No access
10. References No access
1. An Overview of Quantitative Literacy No access
2. Definitional Problems No access
3. Quantitative Literacy Criteria No access
4. Quantitative Literacy Research Results No access
5. Applying Quantitative Literacy Skills to the Study of History and the Social Sciences No access
6. What are Quantitative Sources? No access
7. Quantitative Classification No access
8. Quantitative Source Caveats No access
9. Quantitative Source Preparations No access
10. Instructor-Designed Quantitative Literacy Curriculum Activities No access
11. Quantitative Literacy Curriculum Activities Sites No access
12. Quantitative Instructional Strategies No access
13. Team Up and Publicize It No access
14. Quantitative Literacy Assessment Rubric No access
15. References No access
1. Displaying Quantitative Data No access
2. Chart Types No access
3. Visualizing Quantitative Data No access
4. Animation and Video Data Displays No access
5. References No access
1. Accidental Discharges of Oil No access
2. Ancestry: U.S. Census Bureau No access
3. Association of Religion Data Archives No access
4. Children and Youth in History No access
5. Children’s Defense Fund No access
6. City-Data.com No access
7. Cost of War Calculator No access
8. Critical Thinking Questions and Activities No access
9. Death Penalty Information Center No access
10. Economagic No access
11. Economic Historical Data No access
12. Harris Interactive Vault No access
13. Homeland Data and Security Statistics No access
14. Library of Congress Country Studies No access
15. Literacy Rates of the World No access
16. NationMaster.com No access
17. Pew Global Attitudes Project No access
18. Roper Center Public Opinion Archives No access
19. Statistical Abstract of the United States No access
20. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration No access
21. Terrorism No access
22. UN High Commission for Refugees No access
23. WomenWatch No access
24. World Bank Data No access
25. Youth Indicators No access
26. ZIPskinny.com No access
27. Note No access
1. All About California and the Inducements to Settle There (1870) No access
2. American Soldier Surveys of World War II No access
3. BIOWAR No access
4. The Bisbee Deportation (1917) No access
5. Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era No access
6. Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons No access
7. The Cyclopedia of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals No access
8. The Domestic Slave Trade No access
9. The Drought of 1934 No access
10. Historical Census Data Browser 1790–1970 No access
11. How Many Nukes and Where are the Nukes? No access
12. Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work No access
13. In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, U.S. Population Growth No access
14. The Influenza Epidemic of 1928 to 1929 with Comparative Data for 1918 to 1919 No access
15. Lend-Lease Shipments: World War II No access
16. Lessons Learned from U.S. Humanitarian Intervention Abroad No access
17. The Marshall Plan No access
18. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States No access
19. Native American Documents Project No access
20. 1929 Stock Market Crash No access
21. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation No access
22. Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society No access
23. The Salem Witchcraft Site No access
24. San Francisco Great Earthquake and the Fire of 1906 No access
25. The Southern Diaspora and the Urban Dispossessed: Demonstrating the Census Public Use Microdata Samples No access
26. Statistical Information about Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War No access
27. The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire No access
28. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the 1973 Oil Embargo No access
29. U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, June 19, 1946 No access
30. The Wealthiest Americans Ever No access
31. Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 No access
1. African Activist Archive No access
2. Argonaut Conference, January-February 1945: Papers and Minutes of Meetings No access
3. The Berlin Airlift 1948–1949: Facts and Figures No access
4. Bosnia’s Civil War Origin and Violence Dynamics No access
5. Census of India Reports 1871–1901 No access
6. The Chernobyl Catastrophe—Consequences on Human Health No access
7. The Chiquita Papers No access
8. Colonial Reports Annual No. 1504 Gold Coast Report for 1929 to 1930 No access
9. The Death Toll of the Rwandan Genocide: A Detailed Analysis for Gikongoro Province No access
10. East India Company Ships No access
11. The Famine in Ireland: Statistics No access
12. Guns-for-Slaves: The Eighteenth Century British Slave Trade in Africa No access
13. The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire No access
14. Iranian Production of 19.75 Percent Enriched Uranium: Beyond Its Realistic Needs No access
15. Jewish Emigration from Germany 1933 to 1939 No access
16. Lenin: The Development of Capitalism in Russia No access
17. Migration Information Source—Global Data Center No access
18. The Nanking Massacre Project No access
19. The Normandy Invasion: D-Day, 1944 No access
20. On the Mode of the Communication of Cholera No access
21. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics No access
22. Piracy and Maritime Crime: Historical and Modern Case Studies No access
23. Statistical Materials for Learning about Japan No access
24. Statistics Canada No access
25. The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft 1563 to 1736 No access
26. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database No access
27. Trenches on the Web (1914 to 1918) Casualty Figures No access
28. U.S. and Allied Efforts to Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany during World War II No access
29. A Vision of Britain Through Time No access
References No access Pages 181 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 190
About the Author No access Pages 191 - 191