I. Making Student Outcomes for your Theme

When your team is constructing your FRINQ course, it is always valuable to ask yourselves: "What is it that we expect students to know and be able to do after being engaged in the curriculum?"

Answering that question will help you identify what you may need to add to meet the FRINQ goals. Going a bit further with this process, ask yourselves:

 "What quantitative reasoning skills should the students have at the end of the course?"

You are NOT being asked to teach them calculus or even statistics (okay maybe a little statistics, but nothing more than you yourself should already know to be a good critical thinker with the morning paper).) In fact, MOST of what the students need, they have already had in some context. The problem is that they have not been able to transfer what they have learned in high school math class to their every day lives. This is what the FRINQ course is being asked to help them with.

 SO, "WHAT QUANTITATIVE REASONING SKILLS WILL YOUR STUDENTS NEED SO AS TO UNDERSTAND AND PARTICIPATE EFFECTIVELY IN YOUR THEME?"

SAMPLE QUANTITATIVE REASONING OUTCOMES