Sources of Data

This week I’m planning to identify some sources of data for you to use during your teaching of statistics, data literacy, etc.  I’m convinced that using real data, whether collected in a survey by our students or downloaded from sources easily found on the web, engage students in ways in which many textbook problems do …

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Thinking from Data

I teach graduate math methods, and I try to include instructional technology into the curriculum.  Most of these students have familiarity with technology, but upon closer examination I find some are thinking primarily of communication technology – email, social media, or searching on the web. They don’t think of technology as a tool to fundamentally …