NECQL XIII

Smith College

Campus Center, Rooms 103 and 104

9:00 Arrival and breakfast

9:30 Welcome and introductions

10:00 Morning Session:

Support Structures for Quantitative Literacy

Neil Lutsky of Carleton College will give a talk: Spreading Activation for Quantitative Reasoning in a College Community: Themes for Variations

This will be preceded by small group exchanges, it will be followed by short presentations by members from other institutions, which will then open into a general discussion about the way that institutions structure and support quantitative literacy on campuses and how that structure interacts with other student resources.

12:00 Lunch at the College Club
         Dessert will be accompanied by an organizational meeting:
         12:45-1:15 Setting directions for the NECQL

1:30 Afternoon Session:

Resources for Quantitative Literacy Instruction

Rick Gillman of Valparaiso University will give excerpts of his mini-course Game Theory as a Path for Quantitative Literacy. The first piece will be on strategic games and the second piece will be on bargaining games.

The afternoon will focus on resources for QL instruction and programming. We will set up a table to display resources that participants would like to share, and we will, of course, include a coffee break.

4:00 Announcements:
       Corri Taylor for the National Numeracy Network (NNN)
       Maura Mast for the MAA's Sigma QL

This meeting is generously supported by the Provost/Dean of Faculty and the Quantitative Learning Center at Smith College.