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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.
What’S Brewing? A Statistics Education Discovery Project, Marla A. Sole, Sharon L. Weinberg
What’S Brewing? A Statistics Education Discovery Project, Marla A. Sole, Sharon L. Weinberg
Publications and Research
We believe that students learn best, are actively engaged, and are genuinely interested when working on real-world problems. This can be done by giving students the opportunity to work collaboratively on projects that investigate authentic, familiar problems. This article shares one such project that was used in an introductory statistics course. We describe the steps taken to investigate why customers are charged more for iced coffee than hot coffee, which included collecting data and using descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Interspersed throughout the article, we describe strategies that can help teachers implement the project and scaffold material to assist students …