IDSC 100: Measured Thinking
Reasoning with Numbers about World Events, Health, Science, and Social IssuesInstructor: Neil Lutsky
Viz Imagining Numbers Webpage
This interdisciplinary course addresses one of the signal features of contemporary academic, professional, public, and personal life: a reliance on information and arguments involving numbers. We will examine how numbers are used and misused in verbal, statistical, and graphical form in discussions of world events, health, science, and social issues. Students will also apply quantitative reasoning skills to assist community organizations.
Course MaterialsStudents in Neil Lutsky's A&I seminar IDSC 100: Measured Thinking: Reasoning with Numbers about World Events, Health, Science, and Social Issues, collaborated with Northfield Middle School students in John Bade's art class to create graphic designs inspired by numbers. These graphic designs were showcased in the exhibition, Imagining Numbers.
Imagining Numbers Assignment
Northfield Middle School Project Pre-Test
Worksheet: Working with Computer Files and Images
Creating Imagining Numbers Images
Northfield Middle School Post-Test