Beyond the Formula 2005 Using Tinkerplots Software to Explore Graphing in Middle School and Beyond! Sponsored by Key Curriculum Press Tom Short Indiana University of Pennsylvania tshort@iup.edu
Outline + Introduction + US States + Who Has the Heaviest Backpacks? + Is Your Backpack Too Heavy for You? + Men’s 100-Meter Dash at the Olympics + Men and Women at the Olympics + Questions and discussion
Tinkerplots + Designed specifically for grades 4-8 + Intended for the exploration of specific questions + Built on a foundation of research * Look at data in the aggregate * Describing centers of distributions * Stay grounded in the data
Resources + Introductory Movies + Exploring Data with Tinkerplots by Cliff Konold + Plenty of sample datasets to explore + www.keypress.com/tinkerplots