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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Writing and Speaking About Data (DBQs and FRQs)

How do we talk about data? How do we write about data? In this 1.5 hr. workshop you will discover ways to help your student be specific, using the correct...
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How do we talk about data? How do we write about data? In this 1.5 hr. workshop you will discover ways to help your student be specific, using the correct terms, in context, as they identify and describe trends in a set of numbers. We will play two games useful for building a working vocabulary and increasing student reliance on mathematically accurate communication. We will touch on formal statements of ‘statistical significance’ as well as informal statements of primary trends, disruptions, and outliers. We will exemplify the connection between evidence and reasoning (in the CER argument). The activities used in this workshop are applicable to students at any grade level and can be an introduction to descriptive mathematics for younger students or a repeatable method for answering free response, data-based questions for students taking an AP or IB exam.

Although the examples in this workshop will be based in math and science, this 1.5-hour workshop is open to teachers of all grade levels and subject areas.

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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 1

Students aren’t the only ones who struggle to determine the best way to display data in graphic form. Because there are usually many representations that can be used, and each...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 2

In this 1.5 hr. workshop participants will use an example data set from a Data Nuggets experiment to explore different methods of depicting the same set of numbers in several...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 3

“So, should I use a bar graph?” Students are often unsure of how to depict data in a manner that elucidates the trends and exposes any disruptions that need to...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Choosing the Most Appropriate Graph for Your Data Part 4

The final workshop in this series guides teachers through the technical steps of helping students create a graph that looks the way the student intends it to look. We will...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Data Modeling Activities for Ecology – Lincoln’s and Simpson’s Indices

Using manipulatives found in our homes, we will simulate two common field science experiments:  Lincoln’s Index for measuring abundance and Simpson’s Index for measuring biodiversity. Participants in this 1.5 hr....
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 1 Building Curiosity

In this workshop we will practice a repeatable structure for introducing a topic that will be studied through scientific exploration using a remote teaching and learning platform. We will help...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 2 Helping Students Write an Experimental Procedure

In this workshop we will pick up where Part 1 of this series left off. We begin with a list of variables our students have identified as potentially impacting a...
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Experiments: Part 3 Guiding Students Through Data Analysis

Teachers will play the role of the students, collecting data in their own homes and pooling their observations and measurements in a spreadsheet shared by their lab partners. We will...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 4 Drawing Evidence-based Conclusions

This workshop will focus on the content and demands of the conclusion section of a lab report, with applications to data-based questions and internal assessments for IB students, and free...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Student Designed Experiments

Experiments: Part 5 Data-generating Activities for Labs and Computation

Whether in the classroom or at home, how do we initiate the process of student-designed lab or field experiments? The first step is to help the students see potential research...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Math-infused Science | Remote Teaching and Learning

Using Puzzles to Teach Pattern Recognition

In this 1.5 hr. workshop, teachers will work individually and then as a team to identify a pattern in puzzle pieces that are tell the story of a theorem, function,...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 1 Measuring and Reporting Uncertainty

All measurements include some degree of uncertainty or error, but how it is reported is decided by the person collecting the data. Because analysis is dependent on the data collected,...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 2 The Problem with Describing Data Using the Mean

Often by middle school and certainly by high school, students default to the mean as the best way to describe data without much consideration for how they might defend that...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 3 Getting Comfortable with Variance, Standard Deviation, Standard Error, and the 95% Confidence Interval

The variance, standard deviation, and standard error of the mean are excellent methods for describing data because they convey the variability of the observed data around mean. Anyone teaching Pre-AP,...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 4 Expressing Error on a Graph

Error bars are placed on a graph to give a more detailed account of what was observed.  Although there are many descriptors that can be used to draw error bars,...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 5 Hypothesis Testing Using a Chi-squared Analysis

Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how...
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Stats: Part 6 Hypothesis Testing Using the Student’s t-test

Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 7 Hypothesis Testing Using Tests of Correlation

Parts 5-8 continue the Statistics for Science series to include the skills required in high school Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) science courses. In these workshops, we will learn how...
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Workshop Series: Math-infused Science | Statistics for Teaching Science

Stats: Part 8 Choosing the Most Appropriate Stats for Your Data

This is the culminating workshop for the Statistics for Advanced Level Science series. In this session, we will compare the application of different hypothesis tests and discuss how more than one type...
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Workshop Series: Approaches to Learning | Math-infused Science | Remote Teaching and Learning

DataClassroom Sponsored Workshops

In each free 1-hour workshop, Kristen Dotti from Catalyst Learning Curricula will show teachers easy ways to integrate graphing and data analysis skills into their lesson plans with the user-friendly...
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