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Building Critical Thinking Skills with Graphs

One of the Quantitative Reasoning Outcomes for Integrated Quantitative Learning courses  is that students should be able to analyze, summarize, and interpret quantitative data and effectively communicate the findings.
One way to achieve that outcome is to have students practice interpreting data. Possible assignments include:

Giving students a good graph or a poor graph and ask them [...]

Danger of a Single Story

Novelist Chimamanda Adichie’s short talk reveals the danger of hearing only one story about a country or person. It leaves us with an inability to take in other information that may also be true.
This video would be useful in the context of critical thinking, prejudice, and international development, to name a few. (19 mins)