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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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A search for data offers a new friendship and answers to 8th graders’ questions

Four students at desk exploring data in CODAP

Google “Japanese Internment data” and you’ll find thousands of links. There are sites dedicated to Japanese culture, ancestry, and history, plus government records, university departments, museums, and public television stations with scores of information. There are even sites devoted to finding other sites with links to data. I recently found myself, like Edgar Allan Poe, […]

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