Statistically Significant: Removing Barriers to Learning Statistics

The accessibility and power of CODAP, finding the right tools to teach statistics, mining for dataset gold, linking students' lived experiences to statistics, and embracing the specificity of statistics.

Director of Learning Analytics and Technology at Loreto College, Timothy Bond chats with Allan about teaching statistics to students, his journey from avoiding statistics to loving it, the benefits of using real datasets over artificial ones, avoiding being swamped with data, helping students learn with free software that runs in browser, the tension between computation and interpretation, and how to find authentic, verified data for teaching.

Tutero
Tutero is a Melbourne-based Australian education company that empowers maths teachers with innovative AI tools to effortlessly create customised lesson plans, assessments, and activities. You can find them at www.tutero.com

Key Links:

Get in touch with Timothy Bond on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyjbond/

Use CODAP completely free: https://codap.concord.org/for-educators/

Get connected with more great resources at the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers: https://aamt.edu.au/

 

Podcast produced by Martin Franklin/East Coast Studio
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