More Math Lit Materials Available

The second textbook for the Mathematical Literacy course is available.  Great news!!

The new book is by Brian Mercer and David Sobecki, published by McGraw Hill; the title is  Pathways to Math Literacy ( © 2014).  I had an opportunity to see some of the material prior to publication; you will find this text to be a good contrast with the other book currently available (some info below on that one).

This new book has a web site for instructors at http://successinhighered.com/pathways/   Take a look … they have information about the book that is actually helpful, and they have a resource page for faculty considering ‘pathways’ (whether you use their book or not).

Also available is the initial Math Lit book by Kathy Almy and Heather Foes, published by Pearson ( © 2013).  You can get information on that book at http://www.pearsonhighered.com/product?ISBN=0321818458  and at Kathy’s blog (http://almydoesmath.blogspot.com/ .  I noticed that a recent post on that blog is a recording of a webinar on implementing pathways; very helfpul.

As of this semester, we are up to about 170 sections of Mathematical Literacy across the country (this is not counting the Quantway™ sections).  Now that we have a second commercial textbook, even greater growth is possible!

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categories Math curriculum in general, Mathematical Literacy Course | | datetime January 24, 2014 10:46 am

1 Comment

  • By schremmer, January 24, 2014 @ 11:13 am

    Just looked at the detailed TOC (A list of “objectives”).

    It is not even worth making comments.

    Regards
    –schremmer

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