Authentic Learning Activities in Middle School Mathematics
Subtitle: Data Analysis, Statistics, & Probability
Publisher: Brendan Kelly Pub
Published: January 10, 2000
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781895997194
First sentence: The rationale for the Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability in the draft of Standards and Principles of School Mathematic emphasizes the need to analyze data from "real-word contexts" and to foster critical thinking about its interpretation and implications (pp. 240-242): Data from newspapers, magazines, brochures, and the World Wide Web are readily available and can easily be brought into the classroom for investigation and discussion...Students should understand that the representation of data is a means of communication and must be chosen with some thought.