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Below is a repository of information on our past meetings. If there is any information about the meetings that you would like to know, but cannot find, please contact the current NNN President, Luke Tunstall (email). 

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2023 NNN Annual Meeting

NNN 2023 Annual Meeting

The NNN 2023 Annual Meeting took place Friday, October 20-Sunday, October 22 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.


With keynote talks from Pamela Burdman (Just Equations) and Dr. Nathan Alexander (Morehouse College), as well as presentations and workshops from colleagues in the U.S. and abroad, this meeting was an all-around success!

Program (PDF)

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2022 NNN Annual Meeting

2022 Annual Meeting of the National Numeracy Network

This year's Annual Meeting took place Friday, October 21 through Sunday, October 23 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Thank you to everyone who made the program a success!

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2021 NNN Annual Meeting

2021-22 Annual Meeting - Virtual Format

March 4-6, 2022 online via Zoom

Current Meeting Schedule PDF

Current Meeting Abstracts PDF

Keynote Speakers: 
    Dr. Jane Miller                                Dr. Susan Ganter         

             

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2020 NNN Annual Meeting

NNN 2020-21 Annual Meeting

Schedule

Abstracts

Online. Feb 26-28, 2021.

Keynote 1: Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West,
Co-Authors of "Calling Bullshit"

Teaching a 'Calling Bullshit' Course

Keynote 2: Jessica Utts, Past President of the ASA
Author of "Seeing Through Statistics"

Confounding, Multivariable Thinking and
Interpreting Multiple Regression

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2019 NNN Annual Meeting

2019 NNN Annual Meeting Oct 11-13. Austin, TX
Co-Hosted by UT Austin's Charles A. Dana Center and Austin Community College.

Invited speakers

Uri Treisman (left)
The Equity-Minded Design of Introductory Mathematics Courses: 
New Approaches to Perennial Instructional Problems

Nicholas Horton (right)
Data acumen and data numeracy:
helping students extract meaning from data

   
Schedule     Abstracts

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2018 NNN Annual Meeting

2018 NNN Annual Meeting in Lansing, MI

Michigan State University

October 12-14: Friday-Sunday

Friday night keynote by Gail Burrill
President, International Assoc. of Statistical Educators (IASE)
Past-President of the NCTM

Quantitative Literacy Should Not Be Optional

Despite curriculum standards that emphasize statistics as a core curriculum content area and the work of Steen and others in the early 2000’s, quantitative literacy never became part of the mainstream curriculum for all students. Even the growing popularity of Advanced Placement Statistics does not really address issues of quantitative literacy. NCTM has made a promising beginning in its recent publication Catalyzing Change, which includes the recommendation that quantitative literacy should be considered an essential component of the high school curriculum for all students graduating from high school. And as students continue schooling to prepare for careers, the need for quantitative thinking and reasoning only increases, particularly in this era that is awash with data. What are some of the opportunities and challenges we face as we try to make this recommendation a reality for both secondary and postsecondary work? 

   

  
Gail Burrill                                                 Ellen Peters

Sat keynote: Ellen Peters, PhD, Ohio State Univ.

Innumeracy in the lab and in the wild:
A focus on the efficacy and action of subjective numeracy

Innumeracy is rampant in the United States and has been linked with worse decision-making skills and worse outcomes in health and finances. However, objective numeracy (being good at math) is not the only important factor. Beliefs in one’s numeric abilities (i.e., subjective numeracy) should have independent effects on behavioral persistence and engagement with numeric information, with subsequent effects on outcomes, but little research exists.

In today’s talk, we’ll discuss what past studies have revealed about the importance of being objectively numerate. I’ll then present the results of recent ongoing studies concerning the additional importance of subjective numeracy. Objective and subjective numeracy capture distinct psychological constructs that support different aspects of judgment and decision processes. We can measure them or manipulate them and it appears that both numeracies have effects on decision outcomes and processes.

Schedule     Abstracts

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2017 NNN Annual Meeting

2017 NNN Annual Meeting

Barnard College, New York City  

Barnard College Map

November 17-19: Friday-Sunday

Schedule of Sessions (Sat - Sun) and Abstracts

Invitation from NNN President and  Invitation to Statistical Educators

Friday, November 17th

5:30  Conference Check-in

 Registering NNN attendees
  Registering NNN attendees  (there were 97 registrants)

Opening Reception and Welcome from Eric Gaze (video 6 min; 20s load)

6:30  Keynote Address "Math Anxiety: Who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it" by Dr Sian Leah Beilock, President of Barnard College   

  

7:00  Buffet Dinner (must register, requires additional fee)


Saturday, November 18th

8:30  Breakfast

9:00  Sessions Begin every 30 minutes

12:30  Lunch / Presentation

2:15  Afternoon Sessions (every 30 minutes) 4:30-5:30 Keynote "Questioning Quintiles" by  Joel Best, author of Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics. (Link is to a partial video of the talk.)

 

4:30  Poster Sessions Abstracts

6:00  Dinner on your own in NYC

Sunday, November 19th

9:00  Sessions begin every 30 minutes

12:30  Conference Program ends

12:45  NNN Board Meeting / Lunch

Marc Isaacson talk video: Part1 (11 min). Part 2 (12 min)
     
Barnard College The Empirical Reasoning Center  Alisa Rod, Associate Director of the ERC
 
2017 Outstanding Contribution Award

Len Vacher receives Bernie Madison
Outstanding Contribution Award
November 18, 2017

TheAward 
Vacher and Madison with award      vacher and Madison closer up   

Whereas H. Len Vacher has provided exceptional editorial leadership of the journal Numeracy in its first decade and whereas Numeracy has been established as the primary venue for scholarly discussion of the advancement of our cause, the Board of the National Numeracy Network recognizes with gratitude the many achievements of H. Len Vacher. [Presented by NNN President, Eric Gaze]

Audio-only:  Eric Gaze presenting,   Len Vacher acceptance.   Nathan Grawe Numeracy

Video: Eric Gaze (3 min;10s load),   Len Vacher (3 min;10s load).   Nathan Grawe (19 min;24s load)

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2016 NNN Annual Meeting 2016 NNN Annual Meeting: Lehman College Special thanks to Dr. Esther Wilder, the conference coordinator
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2015 NNN Annual Meeting 2015 NNN Annual Meeting: Washington Hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
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2014 NNN Annual Meeting

Thanks to all who attended the NNN Annual Meeting 2014 hosted by Carleton College.

Slides from selected workshops & talks can be found below:

Neil Lutsky: Cut to the QUIC: What is the Essence of Quantitative Reasoning & How Can We Assess It?

Neil's Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 18.5MB Oct16 14)

Kate Follette: Fun Math is Not an Oxymoron: Quantitative Brain Teasers and Other Unthreatening Ways to Infuse Your Course with Numbers

Kate's Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 6MB Oct16 14)

Diego Mendez-Carbajo: Quantitative Reasoning in the Social Sciences

Diego's Slides (Acrobat (PDF) 687kB Oct21 14)

Milo Schield: A Workshop in Four Parts: "Teaching Coincidence", "Using the Log-Normal", "Creating Statistical Distributions via Random Processes" &, "Statistical Significance of Correlations"

Teaching Coincidence (Also useful: Teaching Coincidence), Using the Log-Normal, Creating Statistical Distributions, Statistical Significant Correlations, and slides for the additional part he was unable to cover Segmented Regression Models

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2013 NNN Annual Meeting

The 2013 Annual Meeting of the NNN was held in conjunction with the 2013 AAC&U/PKAL conference in San Diego.

Conference Program

NNN-Sponsored Workshop and Sessions.

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2012 NNN Annual Meeting

October 12-14, New York City.  Agenda

THANK YOU to all the participants and speakers who helped make this conference such a huge success!

Conference Powerpoints
 The following speakers have all agreed to share PDF files of their slides:

Full Conference Schedule

The theme of this year's conference is QL at Work: Navigating the World of Business, Journalism, Finance, and Citizenship.

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Please click on the PDF to view the full conference schedule:

Final Schedule (Acrobat (PDF) 388kB Oct9 12) 
Detailed abstracts can be found here:

Abstracts Final (Acrobat (PDF) 548kB Oct9 12)


Registration

***Registration for this meeting has closed.***

Full conference registration, NNN members: $50
Full conference registration, non-members: $60 (The non-member rate includes a membership in the organization through October 31, 2012.)
Full conference registration, student rate: $30.

Logistics
Travel to New York:
The 2012 National Numeracy Network meetings will be held October 12-14 in New York City. LaGuardia Airport (LGA) provides easiest ground transportation in New York. Cab fare from LGA to hotels near Macaulay will run approximately $30-$45 depending on traffic. Public transportation is also available.

Hotels:
 While the meetings will open with a plenary dinner session at Lehman College, the bulk of the meetings will be held at Macaulay Honors College (35 W 67th St). You can find many hotels near Macaulay on search engines like Expedia and Travelocity. 


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2011 NNN Annual Meeting

Ashland South Carolina. Oct 14-16.

The 2011 NNN conference and board meeting was held at the Crowne Plaza Resort in conjunction with the Appalachian College Association (ACA) Summit.

Schedule of papers:

Schedule of talks:

Friday, October 14, 2011

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch   Keynote Speaker: Bernard L. Madison

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Breakout Session - Using and Revising AACU’s Quantitative Literacy VALUE Rubric
Caren Diefenderfer, Bernie Madison

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Breakout Session - Teaching with Spreadsheet Modules:
Geology of National Parks by H.L. Vacher, T. Juster, J. McIlrath, M. Rains

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM  Breakout Session - Teaching with Spreadsheet Modules: 

Geology of National Parks H.L. Vacher, T. Juster, J. McIlrath, M. Rains

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM  Reception

Saturday, October 15, 2011

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM   Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakout Session - Teaching Statistical Literacy Online
Milo Schield

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM  Breakout Session -
Establishing a Quantitative Reasoning Center  by Eric Gaze, Phyllis Mellinger

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Breakout Session -
Data Visualization in the College Classroom  by Cinnamon Hillyard

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch   Keynote Speaker: Jason Powell & Susan Weaver

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  Breakout Session -
Course Variations on a Theme: Strengthening the Quantitative Reasoning of First-Year Students
C.Diefenderfer, N.Lutsky, C.Taylor, M.Van DerWege

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM  Breakout Session -
Course Variations on a Theme: Strengthening the Quantitative Reasoning of First-Year Students
by C.Diefenderfer, N.Lutsky, C.Taylor, M.Van DerWege

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