STEM Ed Announcement: Teaching Data Analysis and Chance in Grades 5-8

[Morton Sternheim <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

 This is a UMass Amherst program.
 Contact information is below.
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 Teaching Data Analysis and Chance in Grades 5-8

 Dates:         Aug 9 - 13, 2010
 Time:          9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
 Location:   UMass Amherst campus.We'll provide further details upon registration.
 Instructor: Dr. Cliff Konold
 PDPs:         Variable from 40 to 67.5
 Course Credit Option:  EDUC 695F.  This is a 3-credit course which requires additional time, assignments, and registration through CPE.
 Computers: You must furnish your own laptop computer (MACs or PCs).
            We will need to be able to install software on you computer.

 Description: In this weeklong workshop, you will explore fundamental
 ideas in probability and statistics using the data-analysis tool
 TinkerPlots, which was specifically designed for use by middle school
 students. A new verison of the software (version 2.0) is under development
 at UMass, and much of the time we'll be spent using its new capabilities.
 Investigations will involve creating and managing data; interpretations of common data representations; methods of data description and group
 comparison using measures of centers (averages) and spread (variation);
 measuring and modeling co-variation; and modeling chance.  In addition 
to deepening your own understanding of these topics, we'll also discuss 
research on student reasoning about data and chance and explore 
implications of this research for student learning and classroom 
practice.

 Instructor Bio: Cliff Konold is director of the Scientific Reasoning
 Research Institute at UMass Amherst. For the past 30 years he has been
 researching how people, from Kindergartners to adults, reason about chance
 and data and applying this research to the design of instruction and
 educational software.  He headed the project team that developed
 TinkerPlots, which we'll be using in the workshop.  With funding from the
 National Science Foundation, he currently directs two projects that are
 extending the capabilities and instructional applications of TinkerPlots.


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 Application: Teaching Data Analysis and Chance in Grades 5-8

 Email the completed application by May 30, 2010 to konold@srri.umass.edu.
 (You can also fax it to Cliff Konold at 413-545-4884.) Direct
questions to Cliff Konold by email or phone at 413-545-5886. We will 
notify you by email of our decision regarding your application. We are 
limiting enrollement to 20 and will give preference to teachers applying 
in groups from the same school.


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 --  Cliff Konold Director, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute
424 LGRT University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-2545  Phone:
413.545.5886 Fax:   413.545.4884 Email: konold@srri.umass.edu Web:  
www.umass.edu/srri/serg/