Developing Quantitative Literacy Skills in History and the Social Sciences: A Web-Based Common Core Standards Approach - Paperback

by Kathleen W. Craver (Author)

This book features 85 interesting and exciting multi-century and multicultural web sites that are accompanied by numerical critical thinking questions and activities. Teachers can pose the questions to their entire class or individually assign them. It also contains lists of best practices and examples for interpreting, visualizing, and displaying quantitative data. History and social sciences educators will find this book an indispensable tool for incorporating numerical literacy skills into their class activities and assignments.

Author Biography

Kathleen W. Craver, Ph.D., is Head Librarian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She is the author of five books, including School Library Media Centers in the 21st Century (1994), Teaching Electronic Literacy (1997), Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History (1999), Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide for School Library Media Specialists (2002), and Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century U.S. History (2008).