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Podworny, Susanne; Hüsing, Sven; Schulte, Carsten – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
Data science surrounds us in contexts as diverse as climate change, air pollution, route-finding, genomics, market manipulation, and movie recommendations. To open the "data-science-black-box" for lower secondary school students, we developed a data science teaching unit focusing on the analysis of environmental data, which we embedded…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Programming, Programming Languages, Data Analysis
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Kaufmann, Odd Tore; Stenseth, Børre – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
This article attempts to identify the kind of arguments that lower secondary school-level pupils use when they apply programming to solve a mathematical problem. By analyzing the data from one group of three pupils working together with Processing (Processing is a Java based tool primarily to learn programme visual effects supported and…
Descriptors: Programming, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Mathematics, Persuasive Discourse
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Sousa, Ana; Rodrigues, Pedro; Maia-Lima, Cláudia; Pinto, Alexandre; Barbot, António – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
The excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation, natural or artificial, is a public health concern. For this reason, it is important that, from an early age, children and teenagers gain awareness of this problem. By not being visible to the human eye, ultraviolet radiation is an abstract concept and difficult to understand, although its short-term…
Descriptors: Radiation, Grade 9, Foreign Countries, Skill Development
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Altura, Gerard J.; Curwood, Jen Scott – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015
Research suggests that video games can foster deep engagement, critical thinking, and collaborative learning. To highlight how video games promote student achievement, we focus on a year 9 elective class in Australia. Our findings suggest that this games-based class encouraged student learning and motivated students to develop advanced literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, Academic Achievement, Learning