Employs basic mathematical skills to teach students how to address topical, real-world problems using quantitative reasoning.

Numeracy math literacy dominated by the spreadsheet is the currency of modern life. This authoritative study makes the case that innumeracy math illiteracy is rapidly becoming an active agent of disenfranchisement. Asked how we came to this point, the responses of a number of people who deal with math every day are published collectively here and make interesting and sobering reading.

Presents a wide sampling of efforts being made on campuses across the country to achieve our common goal of having a quantitatively literate citizenry.