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Liza Bondurant; Stephanie Somersille – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
This article describes an activity and resource from The New York Times that can be used to help learners cultivate critical statistical literacy. Critical statistical literacy involves understanding, interpreting, and questioning statistical information to make informed decisions (Casey et al., 2023; Franklin et al., 2015; Weiland, 2017). It is a…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Newspapers, Decision Making
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Saskia Schreiter; Markus Vogel – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
The ability to interpret and compare data distributions is an important educational goal. Inherent in the statistical concept of distribution is the need to focus not only on individual data points or small groups of data points (so-called local view), but to perceive a distribution as a whole, allowing to recognize global features such as center,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Statistical Distributions, Data Interpretation, Data Analysis
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Stein Dankert Kolstø; Vegard Havre Paulsen; Idar Mestad – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
Students' critical thinking is often researched using quantitative tests designed to measure critical thinking. In contrast, this study qualitatively analyses group and whole-class dialogues in an interdisciplinary SSI project by focusing on students' critical thinking practices. As such, the study provides an in-depth example of an immersion…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Science Education, Science and Society, Climate