Keywords
social work, quantitative literacy, public policy
Abstract
Lewis, Michael Anthony. 2019. Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues (New York: Oxford University Press) 224 pp. ISBN 978-0190467135.
This essay introduces Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues by Michael Anthony Lewis. Inspired by the seminal work of Bennett and Briggs, Lewis shares how he came to write a math book for social workers to meet new demands as the field has developed to include more quantitative concepts. The result is a book that may be of interest to many in the quantitative reasoning movement in the social sciences and beyond.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.14.1.1376
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Michael A.. "How Social Workers Count: Numbers and Social Issues Came to Be." Numeracy 14, Iss. 1 (2021): Article 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.14.1.1376
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