This paper is from Session 2B: Secondary-level statistical education

which comes under Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level

Other papers under session 2B ... 2B1: Random walks in teaching probability at the high school 2B3: Helping mathematics teachers teach statistics: challenges and... 2B4: Making sense of statistical studies: a capstone experience for...

(Wednesday 14th, 11:00-13:00)

Data analysis: linking mathematics, science, and social studies

Presenter

• Jerry Moreno (John Carroll University, United States)

Abstract

The topic of data analysis is usually found in the mathematics school curriculum and seldom elsewhere. Perhaps this is so because the subject is so often viewed narrowly as a body of techniques and formulas, and not as an investigative problem-solving process that begins with asking a meaningful question for which data will be required to help develop an answer. It is completely natural when the subject of data analysis is viewed in this broader problem-solving process sense to look across the school curriculum, especially in science and social studies, to find contexts in which rich, interesting questions may be formulated. This paper suggests some examples that may be used in the school classroom discussions of the integration of mathematics, science, and social studies through data analysis.

Other papers under session 2B ... 2B1: Random walks in teaching probability at the high school 2B3: Helping mathematics teachers teach statistics: challenges and... 2B4: Making sense of statistical studies: a capstone experience for...