Contact Info
Director
Jackie Campbell
campbeja@dickinson.edu
Administrative Assistant
Becky White
whitere@dickinson.edu
Phone
717-245-1978
Quantitative Reasoning Center,
Waidner-Boyd Lee Spahr Library
Mission
The Quantitative Reasoning Center supports students in any course with quantitative content—whether in mathematics, science, social science, or the humanities. Our QR tutors and Quantitative Reasoning Associates (QRAs) have been recommended by faculty and trained in techniques based in the science of learning. As such, they help students learn how to learn.
QR tutors have dual purposes:
- To assist students in general quantitative areas
- To assist students with discipline-specific courses based on the tutor’s area of expertise.
The general quantitative areas that our QR tutors can assist students with are:
- Organizing an Excel spreadsheet
- Making graphs in Excel
- Using a scientific calculator
- Computing statistics with or without a graphing calculator
- Analyzing data sets
- Calculating unit conversions
- Understanding the order of operations
- Reviewing for the quantitative portion of the GRE
Schedule for One-on-One Tutoring Appointments
If you would like an appointment, please click here to view the current tutor schedule. Please visit the "Tutors by Courses" and/or "General Quantitative Support" tabs to identify tutors who can help with your specific need.
Workshops Fall 2024
Title | Dates/Times | Location |
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Introduction to Pivot Tables | Oct. 3rd 12:00 OR* Oct. 4th 12:00 pm | Data & Scientific Reasoning Lab |
Introduction to GIS | Oct. 23rd 12:00 pm | Data & Scientific Reasoning Lab |
GIS Aesthetics and Analyses | Oct. 30th 12:00 pm | Data & Scientific Reasoning Lab |
Introduction to R | Nov. 6th 12:00 pm OR* Nov. 7th 3:00 pm | Data & Scientific Reasoning Lab |
Faculty Development: SoTL | Sept. 25th 12:00 pm | Althouse 204 |
Faculty Development: Active Learning | Oct. 16th 12:00 pm | Althouse 204 |