Join us for an engaging discussion on quantitative reasoning at the upcoming event on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM in Kuykendall 106 Events Room. Quantitative reasoning is one of the core requirements of our General Education program (FQ), and it will continue to be a core requirement through the redesign. FQ courses are taught across our curriculum, ranging from traditional Calculus courses to discipline-specific statistics courses in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
The role of FQ courses is to ensure students obtain the same basic competencies from these courses, enabling them to think critically about and make decisions with quantitative information. Recent assessment results indicate some barriers to meeting these goals. As such, we propose an event for those teaching or planning to teach FQ courses to come together and discuss the challenges of teaching FQ courses, the strategies that are effective to convey important components of these courses, and the ways that FQ requirements could be made better at the university.
The goal of this event is to provide a space for broad discussion of these courses and the expectations we have in these courses. It will be a space for collaboration to aid in continued course development to meet student needs and enhance success.
Presented by
Seth Quintus
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Elizabeth Gross
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Rosalie Paradise
Assessment Coordinator, General Education
This event is co-sponsored by the UH Mānoa General Education Office and the OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE).