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Every Student Needs 21st-Century Data-Literacy Skills

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Every Student Needs 21st-Century Data-Literacy Skills

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  1. ARETELABS.INC EVERYSTUDENTNEEDS21ST- CENTURYDATA-LITERACY SKILLS https://www.aretelabs.com/

  2. LearningNewThings Mosteducators understandthatschool curriculam must evolve as the world changes. Refusing to adapt would do a terrible disservice to students, leaving them poorly prepared for theirfutures.Strikingtherightbalanceis difficult, but our schools usually find a way to forge ahead, teaching more Spanish and less Latin,moreAngelouandlessShelley. Butmathinstructionseemstoresistthisneeded evolution. Thoushalt teach synthetic division! Thoushaltmasterfactoringhigherdegree polynomials!

  3. MATHSPRECEPTION Whythisperceptionpersistsisamystery.Highschool math instruction has changed before. The current gauntlet of algebra through calculus was set in the 1960sin response to Russia’s Sputnik.Before this abrupt shift, high school math had been evolving slowlytoincludealgebraandEuclideangeometry,in responsetochangingadmissionsstandardsat selectiveuniversities.In1926,only10ofthe310 questions on the SAT were about math, and those questionswerelimitedtoarithmeticandbasic algebra.

  4. COMPUTERGENERATION Today,wecouldbemoreconfidentinour current math curriculum if little had changed in the world since the 1960s. But that would be an absurdpositiontotake,ofcourse.Nearlyevery one of us computerin walks around with ourpocket,capable apowerful ofmaking billions of calculations per second. Each day, we collectivelygenerateenoughdatatofillfive Libraries of Congress. We now must sort fact from fiction for ourselves. Do cosmetics cause cancer? Is Covid-19 a threat to a healthy 5-year- old?Wasthelastelectionstolen?

  5. UnscientificResutsofPoll Inthisnewworld,howusefulisthemathwearecurrentlyteachinginourschools? To get some insight into this question, we conducted a small survey with several hundredFreakonomics podcastlisteners.Whilethissampleis farfrom representative, it’s fair to saythe respondents are likely to be biased toward overestimatingthevalueoftoday’smath,asFreakonomicsfanstendtobeapretty geekycrowd.Theunscientificresultsofourpollsuggestthateducatorshavemuch worktodoonthecurrentmathcurriculum.Furthermore,whenaskedwhatmath topics they wish they had learned more about in high school, 64 percent named dataanalysisandinterpretationwhileonly5percentsaidgeometry.

  6. DataLiteracy Thetruepowerofdataemergesin applications. We recommend that the data- basedmathcoursebeofferedearlyinthe mathsequence,sostudentswillhave opportunities to integrate data analysis into their social science, humanities, and science courses. Still,dataliteracywillbe acriticalskillfor living in the 21st century, so we must do all we cantoensurethateverykidhasthe

  7. ARETELABS.INC Wearen’tinterestedinmerelyentertainingstudents,increatingjustanother diversionfromactuallearning.Nordowefavorgiftedstudentsovertherest. Our goal is to provide the motivational spark that, when combined with essentialteacherinstructionandguidance,drives allstudentstoward excellence. www.aretelabs.com AreteLabs,Inc.6117N.Kirkwood Chicago,Illinois60646 (800)705-4749

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