Showing that being a critical reader of numerical information is an essential part of literacy today, this book offers strategies and examples teachers can use to help students become both critical composers and critical readers of texts.

David J. Whitin teaches mathematics education courses in the Elementary Education Department at Wayne State University.

Phyllis E. Whitin teaches language arts education courses in the Elementary Education Department at Wayne State University.

Preface

1. Learning to Read the Numbers: It's Everybody's Business

2. Getting What You Ask For: Examining the Question

3. Definitions and Categories: Deciding What Gets Counted

4. Creating the Visual: Playing Statistical Hide and Seek

5. What We Don't Know: Critiquing the Sample and the Conclusions

6. Learning to be Critics: A Case Study of Children's Television Advertising

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

References

Index