Quantitative Reasoning and Its Role in Interdisciplinarity

Robert Mayes

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Quantitative Reasoning and Its Role in Interdisciplinarity

Robert Mayes

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The Real Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Project was conducted in middle schools and high schools in Georgia, USA. The project supported the development of interdisciplinary STEM modules and courses in over 20 schools. A project focus was development of five 21st century STEM reasoning abilities. In this chapter, I provide classroom activities from the Real STEM project that exemplify each form of reasoning: complex systems; model-based; computational; engineering design-based; and quantitative reasoning. Quantitative reasoning plays a critical role in authentic real-world interdisciplinary STEM problems, providing the tools to construct data informed arguments specific to the problem context, which can be debated, verified or refuted, modeled mathematically and tested against reality. Yet quantitative reasoning is often misrepresented, underdeveloped, and ignored in STEM classrooms. The chapter finishes with a discussion of the impact of Real STEM.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11066-6_8
State	Published - Feb 23 2019

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