Teaching Statistics vs. Data Science in Grades K-12?

Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 11:00 am - 12:45 pm ET

Where do YOU stand?

• How to define statistics education and data science education in grades K-12? Statistics or data science?
• Is statistics and data science education too ambitious a goal to pursue in grades K-12, for both the students and teachers?
• Has K-12 statistics and data science education been successful so far? By what measures?
• Can data sense, or data acumen, be trained well at K-12 or even younger? Are there any unique challenges and benefits of developing data acumen in K-12?
• Small datasets or big data for teaching and practice at this level?

 

If you are intrigued by these questions and have an interest in how these questions might be answered - one way of the other – then this is the event for you!

 

Want to get a sense of the thinking behind the practicality (or not) of various educational approaches?  Interested in hearing both sides of the story – during the same session!? 

 

This event is hosted by NISS and will be held in a debate type of format. The participants will be given selected questions ahead of time so they have a chance to think about their responses, but this is intended to be much less of a presentation and more of a give and take between the debaters.

 

So – let’s have fun with this!  The best way to find out what happens is to register and attend!

 

https://www.niss.org/events/statistics-debate-ii-teaching-statistics-vs-data-science-grades-k-12

 

 

 

Glenn Johnson

Web Communications

National Institute of Statistical Sciences