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STORIES COUNT: Narrative Approaches to
Quantitative Learning recognizes that the processes of
understanding important concepts and ideas, articulating them, and
communicating about them are intimately connected and mutually reinforcing. The program engages, challenges, and supports people
who stay on only one side of the presumed verbal/quantitative divide
as well as those who are comfortable and at home in either domain.
The tales in the STORIES COUNT repertoire take
audiences to inviting worlds. They present memorable characters and
satisfying plots. They captivate and involve audiences. In addition,
the stories are also full of math and logic. They have huge
numbers—even numbers that are as big as they might ever grow. They
have reliable strategies for making decisions. They have equality
and variation, probabilities and certainties. They have logical
patterns and tricks that get characters in and out of trouble. And
sometimes they invite and
sometimes they demand
exploration of what it all means.
The stories
engage their listeners in
whatever ways it works for the
listeners. Lovers of language, stories, and tales readily engage
the narrative form. And as they watch the characters act and
interact and the plots resolve, they “do the math”—usually without
even knowing that math is what they’re doing. Those
who are
math-adept often recognize quantitative patterns and structures
early on
and then find themselves involved with the characters and
events caught up in them.
The outcome is often new insight into the connections between understanding, articulating, and communicating about math, logic, and related topics and a renewed commitment to mastering both verbal and quantitative competences using STORIES COUNT: Narrative Approaches to Quantitative Learning.