Category: Tag: CODAP
Jacob Sagrans is Senior Research Associate at Tumblehome, Inc., and a consultant on data science projects. We are excited to announce that CODAP now has a new website! Special thanks go to Doubleberry for designing this beautiful site. We encourage you to explore the many enhanced resources the CODAP website now offers. As part of […]
Leticia Perez is a Senior Professional Learning Specialist at WestEd. Frieda Reichsman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Concord Consortium. Headlines make the news all the time warning of warmer winters, changing seasonal patterns, life-threatening heat, or alternately dangerous freezing conditions. Whether you’re in Massachusetts or California, or somewhere in between, nearly everyone has […]
Tim Erickson is an educator focusing on mathematics, physics, and data science; a consultant on several data science projects; and the author of Awash in Data. Not long ago, I wrote a blog post about using the scrambler to do randomization-based inference. In that post, I suggested that we could also do traditional inference in […]
Tim Erickson is an educator focusing on mathematics, physics, and data science; a consultant on several data science projects; and the author of Awash in Data. CODAP is great for exploring data. You can make graphs and do cool data moves, such as filtering, grouping, and summarizing your data. You can download data from public […]
We are delighted to announce that Bridget Druken has been awarded our Robert F. Tinker Fellowship for 2024. Describing her background, Druken begins, “I loved all my classes and subjects in high school.” She then adds, “but really admired my math teachers.” She smiles as she runs down their list of names. She credits one […]
The CODAP website has a growing library of CODAP help resources aimed at highlighting handy features and improving your CODAP experience, so you can do even more with data exploration and visualization. Below you’ll find a sample of recent CODAP help resources and some additional CODAP features you may not have known about. Read on to […]
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to add more data exploration to your lessons this year, we have a week’s worth of activities to get you started. Because data is interdisciplinary, you can find a home for it in any scientific discipline from astronomy to zoology, and across the halls in humanities, social […]
2024 marks our 30th anniversary. Our origins reach back to a simple beginning, on a single-board computer with a mere one kilobyte of memory. But it’s not about the computer itself—it’s never just the technology. It’s what the computer made possible that matters. When Bob Tinker connected a KIM-1 computer to an expansion board he’d […]
Social media has been exploding with New Year’s resolutions since early fall. If you’d like to get a head start on your own educational resolutions for the next calendar year, we’ve got you covered. Want to help students see Earth science as a lab science? Add more data science activities to your high school classes? […]
We are delighted to announce that you can now assign CODAP documents in Google Classroom in the same way you assign Google Docs. Easy peasy! As a teacher, you can create a CODAP document, then assign it to your class so that each student gets their own copy. They can explore a data table or […]