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Middle school students see themselves as “data people”

Screenshot of CODAP data table, map, and graph created by a student.

Trang Tran is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Joe Polman is the Associate Dean for Research and a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Kate Miller is a Research Associate. Cynthia McIntyre is the Director of Communications.  A new National Science Foundation-funded study investigated how interdisciplinary, project-based learning can […]

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Exploring data in social studies using two new CODAP plugins

From climate reports to historical datasets about income or education level, data influences how we understand and interact with the world around us. While math and science classrooms often shoulder the responsibility of teaching data skills, social studies classrooms are uniquely positioned to offer a context-rich and interdisciplinary approach to data literacy. At its core, […]

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