Our Journal

Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy

The NNN is delighted to present our e-journal: Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy. Visit the Web site to learn more about the journal and to download articles.

Journal History

Len Vacher and Dorothy Wallace, two of the NNN's founding board members, had a grand plan to fill a major void: create a peer-reviewed journal to "promote education that integrates quantitative skills across all disciplines and at all levels." At the NNN's August 2006 board of directors' meeting in Seattle, Vacher and Wallace proposed the idea for the journal, which was unanimously approved. They then got to work. In December 2006, Wallace, Vacher, and Todd Chavez, from the University of South Florida's Libraries, guided a subset of NNN board members and associate editors in a journal planning meeting at Dartmouth College. The planners agreed that the journal should publish scholarly research and evidence-based case studies on a wide array of QL topics, including education research, teaching strategies and resources, curriculum design, assessment strategies, and faculty development. They agreed that the journal's scope should also include perspectives, notes, reviews, and commentaries. The planners decided upon the journal's name, issues per year, policies, and review procedures. In the following months, the full editorial board was created; articles were sought, written, and edited; and on the first of January 2008, the National Numeracy Network's on-line, open-access journal went live!