Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI): Working with Data

By Deborah Schifter, Virginia Bastable, and Susan Jo Russell

Developing Mathematical Ideas is a staff development/teacher education program designed to help educators think through the major ideas of K–8 mathematics and examine how children develop those ideas. The goal is to engage teachers in a process of inquiry—into mathematics; into learning mathematics; into students' mathematical thinking, in general, and the thinking of one's own students, in particular. In a DMI seminar, teachers discuss print and video cases, explore mathematical questions, investigate the mathematical thinking of their own students, analyze lessons from innovative curricula, and read and discuss essays about related research.

In this module, participants work with the collection, representation, description, and interpretation of data. They learn what various graphs and statistical measures show about features of the data, study how to summarize data when comparing groups, and consider whether the data provide insight into the questions that led to data collection.

Contact Info: Katherine Caruso (1-800-225-4276 x2543)

Project Website: Teaching to the Big Ideas (TBI)

Published by: Pearson Education Order Info

Price: $22.97
ISBN: 0769027954
(45 min.) Videotape

Price: $40.47
ISBN: 076902792X
Facilitator's Guide

Price: $36.97
ISBN: 0769027911
Casebook

Price: $23.47
ISBN: 1428415262
DVD

Facilitator's Package

Price: $98.97
ISBN: 1428415319
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