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Informal Comparative Inference; Common Core Statistics; 7.SP; box plots
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Session D-5: Informal Comparative Inference: What Is It?, Karen Togliatti
Session D-5: Informal Comparative Inference: What Is It?, Karen Togliatti
Professional Learning Day
Come and experience a hands-on task that has middle-school students grapple with informal inferential reasoning. Three key principles of informal inference – data as evidence, probabilistic language, and generalizing ‘beyond the data’ will be discussed as students build and analyze distributions to answer the question, “Does hand dominance play a role in throwing accuracy?” Connections to the CCSSM statistics standards for middle-school will be highlighted.