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  • 1.  TOMORROW: Annie Fetter Moderates "What's Going On In This Graph?"

    Posted 03-12-2018 15:42

    TOMORROW:  Annie Fetter Moderates "What's Going On In This Graph?": 

    Improve Quantitative Literacy with Graphs

    Build quantitative literacy with your students with the free, online feature "What's Going On in This Graph?"  

    Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 13 (and every second Tuesday through the school year), The New York Times Learning Network, in partnership with the American Statistical Association, hosts a live online discussion about a timely graph.  Students from around the world "read" the graph by posting comments about what they notice and wonder in an online forum. Our staff live-moderates by responding to the comments in real time and encouraging students to go deeper.  All releases are archived so that teachers can use previous graphs anytime.  Visit this introductory post to learn more.

    Tomorrow's co-moderator is Annie Fetter, the creator of What Do You Notice?/What Do You Wonder?.  This is the strategy we ask students use to tease out the underlying story in the graph.  Her replies to your students should be very insightful.  

    To get a preview of this month's graph go to this release.

    Here are the direct links from above:

    https://www.nytimes.com/column/whats-going-on-in-this-graph?emc=edit_ln_20171109&nl=learning-network&nlid=52022771&te=1

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/learning/announcing-a-new-monthly-feature-whats-going-on-in-this-graph.html

    We hope you participate tomorrow and help spread the word about this free opportunity with your colleagues!

    Thanks,
    Rebecca




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    Rebecca Nichols
    Director of Education

    American Statistical Association
    Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics™
    732 North Washington Street
    Alexandria, VA 22314-1943
    (703) 684-1221, Ext. 1877
    Fax: (703) 684-3768
    rebecca@amstat.org
    www.amstat.org
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  • 2.  RE: TOMORROW: Annie Fetter Moderates "What's Going On In This Graph?"

    Posted 03-13-2018 12:07
    Excluding countries with no mass shootings may have skewed the results.  Excluding "original comments" can lead the reader of any graph astray.

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    Emil M Friedman, PhD
    emilfriedman@gmail.com
    http://www.statisticalconsulting.org
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