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Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
To increase opportunities for students to take more advanced math courses in high school, many school districts enroll grade 8 students in Algebra I, a gateway course for advanced math. But students who take Algebra I in grade 8 and skip other math courses, such as grade 8 general math, might miss opportunities to develop the foundational…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Klute, Mary; Dougherty, Barbara; Van Dine, Douglas – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
To increase opportunities for students to take more advanced math courses in high school, many school districts enroll grade 8 students in Algebra I, a gateway course for advanced math. But students who take Algebra I in grade 8 and skip other math courses, such as grade 8 general math, might miss opportunities to develop the foundational…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "What Grade 7 Foundational Knowledge and Skills Are Associated with Missouri Students' Algebra I Achievement in Grade 8?" To increase opportunities for students to take more advanced math courses in high school, many school districts enroll grade 8 students in Algebra I, a gateway course for…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Klute, M.; Dougherty, B.; Van Dine, D. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2020
To increase opportunities for students to take more advanced math courses in high school, many school districts enroll grade 8 students in Algebra I, a gateway course for advanced math. But students who take Algebra I in grade 8 and skip other math courses, such as grade 8 general math, might miss opportunities to develop the foundational…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Conley, Quincy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Statistics is taught at every level of education, yet teachers often have to assume their students have no knowledge of statistics and start from scratch each time they set out to teach statistics. The motivation for this experimental study comes from interest in exploring educational applications of augmented reality (AR) delivered via mobile…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
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Fletcher, Michael – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2009
In this article, the author describes the format of the Con Test, an Australian television game show which followed the same general rules and game play as the UK show PokerFace. At the end of each round a contestant needs to decide whether or not he or she should fold. A contestant needs to know how likely it is that he or she is in last place.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Probability, Mathematical Concepts
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Chalikias, Miltiadis S. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2009
The binomial distribution is used to predict the winner of the 49th International Shooting Sport Federation World Championship in double trap shooting held in 2006 in Zagreb, Croatia. The outcome of the competition was definitely unexpected.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scores, Competition, Statistical Distributions
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Lee, J.; Grigg, W.; Dion, G. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) evaluated students' understanding of mathematics concepts and their ability to apply mathematics to everyday situations. Students demonstrated their knowledge of these critical skills by responding to questions about number properties and operations, measurement, geometry, data analysis…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 4, Probability, Data Analysis