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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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Schultheis, Elizabeth H.; Kjelvik, Melissa K. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Authentic, "messy data" contain variability that comes from many sources, such as natural variation in nature, chance occurrences during research, and human error. It is this messiness that both deters potential users of authentic data and gives data the power to create unique learning opportunities that reveal the nature of science…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Scientific Research, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles