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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Quantitative Reasoning"”.
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From Magnitudes to Math: Developmental Precursors of Quantitative Reasoning
… may serve as the foundation for more complex quantitative reasoning abilities. To this end, the five studies contained herein investigate the relations between representations of number, representations of other magnitude dimensions, and symbolic math proficiency in infants, children, and …
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Heuristic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning about steel bridge fatigue and fracture
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1989.
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Identifying Opportunities that Promote a Habit of Mind in the Quantitative Reasoning Classroom.
<p>Quantitative literacy and its role in a democratic society are emerging topics of concern to mathematics educators throughout the world. Undergraduate courses in Quantitative Reasoning (QR) are a recent addition to the growing list of resources aimed at remedying quantitative illiteracy in …
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A Case Study of Integrative Agricultural Education: Integrating Mathematics to Develop Students Quantitative Reasoning
… literature coupled with the framework of quantitative reasoning, lead to a conceptualization of a framework for integrative agricultural education. This framework was implemented through a case study to investigate collaborative efforts in curriculum development in agricultural education …
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Business Calculus Students’ Reasoning about Optimization Problems: A Study of Quantitative Reasoning in an Economic Context
… calculus is scarce. Research on students’ quantitative reasoning at the post-secondary level is lacking. This qualitative study investigated the opportunity to learn about optimization problems, marginal change, and quantitative reasoning in an economic context via a business calculus …
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Reasoning about quantities in natural language
"Quantitative reasoning involves understanding the use of quantities and numeric relations in text, and reasoning with respect to them. It forms an essential part of everyday interaction. However, little work from the Natural Language Processing community has focused on quantitative reasoning. In …
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Modeling Middle Grade Students' Algebraic and Covariational Reasoning using Unit Transformations and Working Memory
Quantitative reasoning permeates mathematical thinking, and mathematics education researchers have taken a quantitative reasoning approach to examining and modeling students' mathematical thinking and development in various domains. From this approach, secondary and post-secondary researchers have …
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Non-linguistic Notions in Language Modeling: Learning, Retention, and Applications
… the same remarkability in their ability to quantitatively reason. This deficiency is specially apparent in smaller models (less than 1 Billion parameters) than can run natively on-device. Between the complementary capabilities of qualitative and quantitative reasoning, this thesis focuses on …
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The Effectiveness of Science Instruction with Digital Simulations in Elementary Settings for Quantitative Sensemaking
… sensemaking abilities at the qualitative and quantitative levels, as well as a general outcome of how this experience may impact students’ unrelated math and numeracy skills. Eight fifth-grade students received this intervention to improve their quantitative reasoning and sensemaking. Results …
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The relationship between the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Revised and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition in brain-damaged adults.
… WAIS-R Full Scale IQ; the SBIV Abstract/Visual Reasoning Area SAS and the WAIS-R Performance IQ; the SBIV Quantitative Reasoning Area SAS and the WAIS-R Verbal Scale IQ; the SBIV Verbal Reasoning Area SAS and the WAIS-R Verbal Scale IQ; the SBIV Short-Term Memory Area SAS and the WAIS-R Verbal …
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Exploring the Nature of the Co-emergence of Students' Representational Fluency and Functional Thinking
… domains of literature—representations and quantitative reasoning—to support students' meaningful learning. I conducted ongoing and retrospective analyses on the enhanced transcriptions of small- and whole-group interactions. The analyses revealed a learning-ecology framework that supported …
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Exploring The Nature Of The Co-emergence Of Students’ Representational Fluency And Functional Thinking
… domains of literature—representations and quantitative reasoning—to support students’ meaningful learning. I conducted ongoing and retrospective analyses on the enhanced transcriptions of small- and whole-group interactions. The analyses revealed a learning-ecology framework that supported …
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Distributed on-line safety monitor based on safety assessment model and multi-agent system
… the monitored system and enable qualitative and quantitative reasoning about the symptoms, causes and possible effects of faults. Recently, monitors that exploit knowledge derived from the application of off-line safety assessment techniques have been proposed. The motivation for that work has …
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Life's Simple 7 and Global- and Domain-Specific Cognitive Function in an Older Adult Population
… that include measurements of semantic memory, quantitative reasoning, episodic memory, and executive functioning. Changes in cognitive scores are evaluated based on marginal effects after adjustments for confounding variables. Baseline LS7 scores (0-14) were calculated using information on …
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Diversity and Student Engagement in a Small Multi-ethnic Liberal Arts University in California
… in the Academic Challenge’s sub-section of Quantitative Reasoning. A correlation was found between Student Satisfaction and Curricular/Co-curricular Diversity and Character Development gains. An additional positive and surprising finding was that students in this multi-ethnic, non-Black and …
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Representation decomposition for knowledge extraction and sharing using restricted Boltzmann machines
… allow the combination of symbolic knowledge and quantitative reasoning. Inspired by Penalty Logic - introduced for Hopfield networks confidence rules establish a relationship between logical rules and RBMs. However, instead of representing propositional well-formed formulas, confidence rules are …