April 2005 — Educator's Evaluation

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TinkerPlots Turns Students Into Data Analysts

By Tom Steinke, Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board

With TinkerPlots, our students and teachers were able to use rich data sets, pose their own problems, construct their own data displays, and tell their own data stories. The mathematical activity possible with TinkerPlots in the background is rich in dialogue and focuses on reasoning with and about data. This is a huge step in the right direction to making data management exciting and meaningful for our students and teachers.

TinkerPlots is a must for all grade 4-8 teachers who want to turn their students on to the power and beauty of data.

TinkerPlots is now commercially available in the U.S. through Key Curriculum Press. For more information, visit
www.keypress.com/catalog/products/software/Prod_TinkerPlots.html.

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Tom Steinke, Ottawa-Carleton Catholic School Board, "TinkerPlots Turns Students Into Data Analysts," T.H.E. Journal, 4/1/2005, http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17227

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