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How Do Teachers Define Modeling? In Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Wilkerson, M. H., Bautista, A. Tobin, R., Cao, Y., & Brizuela, B. (In Press). More than meets the eye: Patterns and shifts in what middle school mathematics teachers describe as models. To appear in Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education.

Read the preprint manuscript here.

Though modeling is a popular topic in mathematics education, the field’s definition of model is diverse. Less is known about what teachers identify as mathematical models, even though it is teachers who ultimately enact modeling activities in the classroom. Continue Reading

Teachers, Tech, and Modeling in Journal of Science Teacher Education

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This paper explores the role that technology can play in engaging pre-service teachers with the iterative, “messy” nature of model-based inquiry. Over the course of 5 weeks, 11 pre-service teachers worked in groups to construct models of diffusion using a computational animation and simulation toolkit, and designed lesson plans for the toolkit. Content analyses of group discussions and lesson plans documentContinue Reading

ICLS 2016: Case Study in Reasoning w/ Data Visualizations

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Data visualizations are transforming how information is communicated. Educators should understand and support how youth reason about these complex representational artifacts. We analyze an interview in which young learners interpreted an interactive visualization as describing both relative distribution and absolute trendsContinue Reading

Learn more about SiMSAM: 2015 NSF Teaching and Learning Video Showcase

AERA 2016: Presentations on Teacher Noticing with Tech, Interview Methods, and SiMSAM

We will be presenting work from the SiMSAM project at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Washington, DC on April 11.

Introducing DataSketch at CPTTE 2016

We will be presenting an early version of DataSketch at the 2016 Conference for Pen and Touch Technologies in Education – March 31 in Providence, RI.

DataSketch: Exploring Computational Data Visualization in the Middle Grades

The DataSketch project explores how middle school students think and learn about data visualization. It involves two interrelated strands of work: (1) research on grade 5-8 students’ existing competencies and practices related to data visualization, and (2) the development and study of a tablet based toolkit for students to create digital ink programmable visualizations that respond to archival or live data stream input.

CodeR4STATS

With Eric Simoneau at the Boston Public Schools, the CodeR4STATS project will develop and study teaching resources for high-school Advanced Placement Statistics teachers to use an open source statistics programming language called “R” in their classrooms. Learn more or try it yourself at the Stats4STEM website.

Data Science Games

Data Science Games is a collaboration with Concord Consortium, eeps media and the University of California at Berkeley to explore data science education at the high school level. Continue Reading

SiMSAM: Bridging Student, Scientific, and Mathematical Models with Expressive Technologies

Simulation, Measurement, and Stop Action Moviemaking (SiMSAM) explores how middle school students reason about physical phenomena using modeling and simulation technologies. Our goal is to build a tool that allows students to move back and forth between formats to create, share and test their own and each others’ scientific models.