This paper is from Session 9B: Data science in secondary education
which comes under Topic 9: Technology and multimedia in statistics education
Paper 9B2 (Monday 9th, 14:00-15:30)
Data Clubs for middle school youth: engaging young people in data science
Presenter
- Andee Rubin (TERC, United States)
Co-author
- Jan Mokros (Maine Math and Science Alliance, United States)
Abstract
We describe a project to engage middle school students in out-of-school Data Clubs whose goal is to give them a “taste” of data science. We identify four criteria for materials we are developing, related to topics, datasets, tools, and activities. We discuss our justification for each, provide examples of how they might be realized, and consider the complexity of satisfying all four criteria simultaneously.