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Suzanne Harper; Dana Cox – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2023
Modernizing mathematics refers to the idea that teachers should rethink how mathematics has traditionally been taught in schools by making rich tasks and collaboration the focus of instruction and promoting opportunities for active learning. "Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking" presents carefully crafted tasks that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Active Learning
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Jordan T. Register; Michelle Stephan – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2023
The purpose of this article is to understand how educators may support students from different backgrounds (both relatively privileged and marginalized) to participate equitably and meaningfully in ethical data science discussions. To do this, we draw on the literature regarding STEM identity formation, use Cobb and Yackel's (1996) framework for…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Mathematics Instruction, Ethics
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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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Schoen, Robert C.; Koon, Sharon – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
On average, Florida students earn only half of the points possible in the statistics content area of the state's annual mathematics assessment. Leaders in Broward County Public Schools, a large, diverse, urban school district, viewed changes to statistics curriculum and instruction as one way to address this issue. This study randomly assigned 40…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Grade 7, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) has identified low student achievement in statistics in the middle grades as a critical concern. It has also expressed concern that statistics instruction does not meet the level of cognitive complexity described in the state curriculum standards. This randomized controlled trial in 40 BCPS middle schools…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Grade 7, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report "Effects of an Inquiry-Oriented Curriculum and Professional Development Program on Grade 7 Students' Understanding of Statistics and on Statistics Instruction." This cluster-randomized controlled trial compared the Supporting Teacher Enactment of the Probability and Statistics Standards (STEPSS)…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Grade 7, Inquiry, Active Learning