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Posts tagged ‘9-12’

Association Between Gender and Sport Watching Preference?

This lesson explores the relationship between gender and sports preferences using data from a two-way table. Students will analyze the data with methods like chi-square tests, bar graphs, and mosaic plots, using Stapplet for the analysis.

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Encouraging Equitable Participation in Ethical Data Science Discussions

Jordan T. Register of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte examines the instructional strategies and pedagogical moves designed to foster equitable engagement in an ethical data science course.

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Statistics, Data Science Education: Key for Future of High School Mathematics

NCTM’s High School Mathematics Reimagined calls for fresh, relevant ways to teach math, focusing on real-world problem-solving and critical thinking. It emphasizes the importance of fostering critical thinking, statistical reasoning, and mathematical modeling to help students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world.

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Screen Time and Notifications

Is screen time beneficial or harmful? In this lesson, students will learn how to collect data on the hours they spend on their smartphones and represent it visually. They will also explore a correlation analysis between the two quantitative variables of hours of screen time and number of notifications.

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Announcements: Spring 2023

A roundup of statistics and education-related information, deadlines, and opportunities.

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A Sampling Activity to Anchor Big Statistical Ideas

The Sampling Bag Task showcases important statistical ideas, encourages conjecture and statistical argument, and illustrates the complexity and promise of seemingly simple tasks to generate productive discourse and expand understanding of statistical ideas.

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The Mean and Variability from the Mean

In this lesson from Christine Franklin, Gary Kader, Tim Jacobbe, and Kaycie Maddox, students investigate how to interpret the mean using fair share value and the balance point of a distribution.

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Lesson Plan: Which Hand Rules?

Published in August of 2017, this lesson has students engage in dropping and catching a yardstick to investigate whether there is significant evidence that people are faster with their dominant hand than their nondominant hand.

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