Quantitative Reasoning: Connect the Dots

This chapter argues for numbers and for an approach to teaching quantitative reasoning that involves secondary and post-secondary teachers representing diverse subject matters and disciplines. Arguments are organized around the following propositions:

1. Strengthening students’ quantitative reasoning is an imperative of contemporary general education.
2. A fitting context for quantitative reasoning is argumentation, the construction, communication, and evaluation of arguments.
3. The quantitative reasoning habits students need to learn are primarily simple and non-technical.
4. The teaching of quantitative reasoning across the curriculum might not only model itself on the teaching of writing across the curriculum; it might be intertwined with teaching writing.