Students Learn Even Statistics Can Be Fun: Jefferson students enthusiastically create posters from survey data

摘要

What's your favorite animal? What technology would you like to see in the classroom? These were the type of inquiries posed on colorful posters lining the walls of Jefferson Elementary this week. Also filling the posters were graphs, charts, and numbers that represented the data collected when Jefferson third- and fourth-graders asked those questions of fellow students. The students surveyed their peers about a question of their choice, and then analyzed the data to make conclusions about their findings. Washington State University provided the poster materials. Dean Johnson, WSU math professor, said the project aims to "generate some excitement" about math and statistics while introducing students to methods of collecting and summarizing data.