Advanced Quantitative Reasoning

Contact Us

For questions about AQR (in Texas) or AMDM (outside of Texas) or to be added to our mailing lists to receive email updates, contact us at aqr@austin.utexas.edu or amdm@austin.utexas.edu.

Advanced Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) is a mathematics course that follows Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II. The course emphasizes statistics and financial applications, and it prepares students to use algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and discrete mathematics to model a range of situations and solve problems.

Note: Outside of Texas, this course is called Advanced Mathematical Decision Making (AMDM).

Institutes

Come to a 3-day summer institute or a follow-up session.

Student Materials and Teacher Support and Materials

• We offer professional development, including summer institutes, in Texas and in selected other states as needed. Teachers receive training and the full seven-volume set of teacher and student materials. To be added to the AMDM (outside Texas) or AQR (in Texas) email lists to find out about 2012 professional development offerings, send your contact information to amdm@austin.utexas.edu or aqr@austin.utexas.edu.
• Texas teachers can download the student materials and a comprehensive set of teacher materials for free. Texas teachers can also purchase teacher or student materials. In either case, we will ask for verification of status as a current AMDM/AQR teacher.

  Process for getting access to free downloadable materials

  Purchase the student materials

  Purchase the teacher materials

• Teachers in other states should email us at aqr@austin.utexas.edu for information on downloading or purchasing materials, as rights to use materials are limited to teachers participating in our professional development or to teachers in states that have licenses to use the materials.
• Any teacher of AMDM or AQR can purchase membership in the online community where AMDM/AQR teachers share resources and ideas. You will be asked for verification that you are a teacher before we give you access to the community.

Texas State Board of Education adopts
Advanced Quantitative Reasoning as a new
fourth-year math course

See the Texas Policy Update that describes the implications of this action with respect to Advanced Mathematical Decision Making

On January 21, 2011, the Texas State Board of Education adopted a new mathematics course designed as a fourth-year course to satisfy the four-year mathematics requirement described in both the regular and the distinguished graduation plans.

Comparing these new TEKS for Advanced Quantitative Reasoning (AQR), we can verify that the Dana Center’s course, Advanced Mathematical Decision Making (AMDM), fully addresses the AQR TEKS*. AMDM was developed in collaboration with the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics as a rigorous, relevant, and engaging mathematics course students could use to satisfy their fourth-year mathematics graduation requirement.

AMDM instructional materials (free within TX) have been developed with the generous support of the Greater Texas Foundation. These downloadable pdf files are available free for any teachers serving Texas students. Materials include student activity sheets for 7 units addressing AQR TEKS 1-6 and 8-11, as well as teacher materials to support each unit. The Dana Center also provides fee-based professional development for this course. More information is available at the AMDM website, including information for use outside of the state of Texas. For any questions, for more information, or to be added to the AQR/AMDM email list, contact amdm@austin.utexas.edu.

*Materials have been developed to address AQR TEKS 1-6 and 8-11, with plans to develop two additional units addressing AQR TEKS 7 and 12, contingent on future funding.