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Burr, Wesley; Chevalier, Fanny; Collins, Christopher; Gibbs, Alison L; Ng, Raymond; Wild, Chris J – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
In 2010, Nolan and Temple Lang proposed "integration of computing concepts into statistics curricula at all levels." The unprecedented growth in data and emphasis on data science has provided an impetus to finally realizing full implementations of this in new statistics and data science programs and courses. We discuss a proposal for the…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Skills, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Frischemeier, Daniel; Biehler, Rolf; Podworny, Susanne; Budde, Lea – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
In this paper, we will describe an introduction to Data Science for secondary school students. We will report on the design and implementation of an introductory unit on "Data and data detectives with CODAP" in which secondary school students used the online tool CODAP to explore real and meaningful survey data on leisure time activities…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary School Students, Curriculum Design
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Ridgway, Jim – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2021
The COVID epidemic has provided an excellent example of the need to call on a wide variety of statistical tools to address a global problem, and can give students insights into some of the dimensions of data science. Here, we describe some of the characteristics of data that students encounter as citizens. We set out some teaching ideas, which…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Data Analysis, Data Use