1. Model Eliciting Activities
Joan Garfield, Robert C. delMas, and
Andrew Zieffler

2. Welcome & Overview Participate in a Model Eliciting Activity (MEA)
Discussion of activity
General Characteristics of MEAs
How to use MEAs
Other MEAs for statistics

3. iPod MEA Form groups of three to four (laptops?)
Part 1: Read, answer questions alone (5 min.)
Part 2: Work as a group, develop a model (30 min.)
Part 3: Test the model with new data (10 min.)
Part 4: Write/Present solutions (15 min.)

4. Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs)
Open-ended problems with no clear solution
Require teamwork to solve
Engage students in statistical reasoning and thinking
Require invention and testing of models to solve real problems
Motivate and prepare students to learn relevant course content

5. Six Principles of MEAs
Model construction principle: allow for model creation
The reality principle: problems and solutions must be meaningful and relevant.
Self-assessment principle: students must be able to self-assess their solutions.
Model documentation principle: reveal and document their thinking processes
Model share-ability and reusability principle: solutions easily adapted to other situations and usable by others
Effective prototype principle: model produced will be as simple as possible yet mathematically significant

6. Activities that Follow an MEA
Expand ideas from MEA (e.g., randomness, random samples, random sequences)
Extend to related statistical ideas (e.g., simulation, null model)
Links to materials at CATALST website
AIMS activities
CSI activities
SERC: additional MEAs