{"id":67,"date":"2015-04-08T14:14:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-04-08T14:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:14:34","slug":"girl-rising-middle-school-girls-study-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/2015\/04\/08\/girl-rising-middle-school-girls-study-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Rising – Middle School Girls Study Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I am experimenting with a different method of telling the story of statistics this year.<\/p>\n

We began the unit by watching Girl Rising<\/a>. It is a moving series of vignettes\u00a0and statistics that tells the stories of girls all around the world and the challenges they face. Collaborating in\u00a0English and Math class, we had the students reflect on and discuss how the numbers and stories appeal to the head and heart of the viewer to promote empathy and activism. This then became our motivation for the unit.<\/p>\n

Students were asked after the film to choose one word that was representative of their mindset after watching the film. Below is a word cloud of some of the most common responses.<\/p>\n

\"Girl<\/a><\/p>\n

I will make my best effort to ensure that as a class we\u00a0are always going back to these ideas that the students have\u00a0decided are the important real-world impacts of the collecting and analysis of statistics.\u00a0In a Math\u00a0lesson on effective sampling\/data collection methods and bias, we worked backwards from the statistics heard in the film\u00a0and compared and contrasted different\u00a0ways one could determine those\u00a0statistics. In English class, they will find statistics that relate to the theme’s in their novel\u00a0to further understand and empathize with the stories.<\/p>\n

Math class lately has been a little more inspired and the students and I are enjoying the unique connection between Math and English – inspiring change<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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This year I am experimenting with a different method of telling the story of statistics this year. We began the unit by watching Girl Rising. It is a moving series of vignettes\u00a0and statistics that tells the stories of girls all around the world and the challenges they face. Collaborating in\u00a0English and Math class, we had … Continue reading “Girl Rising – Middle School Girls Study Statistics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}