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Bush, Sarah B.; Karp, Karen S.; Albanese, Judy; Dillon, Fred – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2014
What better way to interest students in mathematics than using a Super Bowl® commercial? A Prudential® insurance commercial aired during the Super Bowl in 2013 was the impetus for this lesson (see it here on You-Tube™: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IsNiKGMSHUQ). In the commercial, four hundred people were polled on "How Old Is the Oldest…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Grade 6
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van 't Hooft, Mark; Vahey, Philip; Swan, Karen; Kratcoski, Annette; Cook, Dale; Rafanan, Ken; Stanford, Tina; Yarnell, Louise – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2012
Data literacy is recognized as a critically important skill in today's society, but thinking with and about data is often ignored in K-12 curricula. The Thinking With Data (TWD) project advocates that data literacy is a skill that should be addressed in an interdisciplinary manner. This article provides an overview of the TWD curriculum for middle…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 7, Data Analysis, Information Literacy
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Hug, Barbara; McNeill, Katherine L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
In this paper, we examine how students discuss and interpret data and whether these actions vary depending on the type of data they analyse. More specifically, we are interested in whether students perform differently when analysing first-hand data, which they collect themselves, compared with second-hand data provided to them. Our data analysis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 8, Grade 7, Primary Sources