This article identifies 10 elements of quantitative literacy, and argues that the security and sustainability of the countries of the Caribbean depend on improving the state of quantitative literacy in the region

The study of human capital development is an important although complex task as it has a multidimensional nature but also because data is not as systematically available as researchers would hope so. Literacy is the most ...

Introduction: Physicians and medical students need to understand numerical and graphical health data in order to provide patients with correct information. Objective: The graphical and numerical skills of medical students ...

This paper studies inequality of opportunity in health in Chile. Following Roemer's ap- proach to equality of opportunity, we separate the e ect of circumstances and e orts -healthy behaviors- on self-assessed health. ...

This research is based on a qualitative methodological approach and investigates the mathematical meanings produced by Second Grade students and how they are evidenced when in the Mathematical teaching with children’s ...

Although several studies have provided evidence for the relation between working memory (WM) and arithmetic performance, results are still inconsistent. The aim of this study was to evaluate the unique contribution of each ...