In a world drenched in data, we must ensure that students know the meaning of numbers. Our world is awash in numbers. Headlines report the latest interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, hikes or ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Colorado Mesa University held a screening of the documentary “Counted Out” on April 21. The film goes into the unseen ways math affects everyday lives of people around ...

Check out this article about the lack of basic literacy skills among college students, especially quantitative literacy. Read the whole thing, but meditate on this: Without “proficient” skills, or ...

U.S. college students are falling behind their counterparts in other parts of the world in terms of their ability to calculate basic quantitative problems, such as automobile fuel consumption or the ...

Bitter controversy has recently swirled around California’s revised Mathematics Framework, a set of recommendations about how math should be taught in the state’s K-12 schools. At stake are hot-button ...

At the Spinelli Center, we’re happy to meet you where you are in your mathematics journey. Designed to close gaps in experience—whether you never took a core class in high school, haven’t been in the ...

Results from a recent survey conducted by the American Institutes of Research show that 20 percent of college graduates lack the skills necessary to figure out if they have enough fuel to get to the ...