MATH 598: Statistics & Modeling for
Teachers
May 19, 2013
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Name Activity
Music Activity
Padlet Activity
Review Course Syllabus
Common Core Activities
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GAISE
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Pre-Assessments
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◦ Statistics Content Standards
◦ Mathematical Practices
◦ Common Core and GAISE Parallels activity
◦ CREP Survey
◦ LOCUS Test
Use your laptop to access the following URL:
http://padlet.com/wall/uwnqlpug04x0
Post a response to the following questions:
What is statistics? How does statistics differ
from mathematics?
Your posts are anonymous. We will not know
who said what.
Activity 1:
 Each of you has a set of the Statistics Standards for Grades 6-12.
 Your task is to group the standards by the grade level you think they
represent (either MIDDLE SCHOOL or HIGH SCHOOL)
Discussion: Compare your placements with those of other people and
with the Standards presented on the handout. How close were you?
 What is your overall impression of the Common Core Statistics
standards?
 What surprised you?
 What do these standards mean for teachers in schools? In other
words, how, if at all, will this change mathematics
curriculum/teaching/learning?
Activity 2:
 Review your assigned Mathematical
Practice(s). Read both the original text and
the summary.
 Develop examples of when/how students
would demonstrate these practices in the
context of learning statistics. Where might we
see these practices in a Statistics class? Be
specific.
The Difference between Statistics and Mathematics
“Statistics is a methodological discipline. It exists not for
itself, but rather to offer to other fields of study a coherent
set of ideas and tools for dealing with data. The need for
such a discipline arises from the omnipresence of
variability.” (Moore and Cobb, 1997)
A major objective of statistics education is to help students
develop statistical thinking. Statistical thinking, in large part,
must deal with this omnipresence of variability; statistical
problem solving and decision making depend on
understanding, explaining, and quantifying the variability in
the data. It is this focus on variability in data that sets apart
statistics from mathematics.
GAISE Report, p. 6
Statistical problem solving is an investigative process that involves four
components:
I.
Formulate Questions
◦ Clarify the problem at hand
◦ Formulate one (or more) questions that can be answered with data
2.
Collect Data
◦ Design a plan to collect appropriate data
◦ Employ the plan to collect the data
3.
Analyze Data
◦ Select appropriate graphical and numerical methods
◦ Use these methods to analyze data
4.
Interpret Results
◦ Interpret the analysis
◦ Relate the interpretation to the original question
Look over the levels outlined in the GAISE
Framework:
 What Level was the Name Activity that we
completed at the start of class? Why?
 What additional questions/extensions could
you add to the Name Activity (if any) to
move it to the next Level of the GAISE
Framework?
Look over the levels outlined in the GAISE
Framework:
 What Level was the Music Activity that we
completed at the start of class? Why?
 What additional questions/extensions could
you add to the Music Activity (if any) to
move it to the next Level of the GAISE
Framework?
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Discuss the following questions with a
partner:
◦ Does the GAISE framework fit with the CCSSM? If
yes, how? If not, how do they differ?
◦ What is your overall impression of the GAISE
framework?
◦ What surprised you?
◦ What does this framework mean for teachers in
schools? How, if at all, will the GAISE framework
change mathematics curriculum/teaching/learning?
Activity 3:
 You each have a copy of the level B and level C GAISE
guidelines as well as a set of the Common Core 6-12
statistics standards.
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Your task is to determine the overlap of the Common
Core high school standards and the GAISE guidelines.
You might do this by placing the CCSSM standards on
the GAISE guidelines copies.
Then, revisit your answers to the questions:
◦ Does the GAISE framework fit with the CCSSM? If yes, how?
If not, how do they differ?
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Read 6-8 DEU Big Idea 1
Homework 1
Use your laptops to access the following
survey:
 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/setday1
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LOCUS Pre-test
Visit: http://dev-artist.gotpantheon.com/
Click on Test Taker
Enter Access Code: BVjtsNGwrK
Enter Identifier (enter your name)