Keywords
ducation reform, memetics, quantitative literacy, quantitative reasoning, numeracy
Abstract
Two conceptual frameworks, one from graph theory and one from dynamical systems, have been offered as explanations for complex phenomena in biology and also as possible models for the spread of ideas. The two models are based on different assumptions and thus predict quite different outcomes for the fate of either biological species or ideas. We argue that, depending on the culture in which they exist, one can identify which model is more likely to reflect the survival of two competing ideas. Based on this argument we suggest how two strategies for embedding and normalizing quantitative literacy in a given institution are likely to succeed or fail.
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.7.2.7
Recommended Citation
Wallace, Dorothy. "Parts of the Whole: Strategies for the Spread of Quantitative Literacy: What Models Can Tell Us." Numeracy 7, Iss. 2 (2014): Article 7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.7.2.7
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