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Bring Data Science to K12

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Neal Weisman
6 years ago

It's funny how we ask our kids to have a growth mindset and the people in the education world who may be the most "fixed" in their mindset are the teachers and administrators. Let's move forward!

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Jim Brown
6 years ago

This is in line with 1/2 of the jobs by 2030-2014 that don't exist, yet.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

It’s time education is aligned with the real world.

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Drew Edwards
6 years ago

Here via Freakonomics. Love your deep perspective and ideas on math edu reform. I have often felt more emphasis should be placed on the core ideas of logic, probability, and analysis as opposed to computation and rote pattern recognition. Please let me know how I can further show support!

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Liz Morris
6 years ago

I support this initiative to change the math curriculum in the K-12 system. To teach kids how to critically think, collect and use data is critical for their future. What’s the push back for change? Test scores. Get rid of high stakes testing will open the door to change.

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David W Keith
6 years ago

Like all I use is data science. For almost everything.

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Amanda Rempe
6 years ago

I homeschool because the modern k12 curriculum is no longer applicable to the modern world, especially in math.

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Devon Overstreet
6 years ago

Its staggering how quickly data proficiency became important the moment I started my career.

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Carson Young
6 years ago

Data science education should be prioritized over geometry, calculus, and advanced algebra

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Angelo DeMattia
6 years ago

I am a retired high school math teacher and supervisor with MA in Math Education and MS in Statistics.

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Susan Turconi
6 years ago

You are so right!

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Margaret McKanna
6 years ago

When you change the content of high-stakes testing, you change the innocuous benchmarks on report cards, and then you change the world.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

I would like to put my name down for tbis petition. Our kids have a lot of learning gaps in Maths, they lool wholly unprepared for a quantiyative world.

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Pamela Hacking
6 years ago

Essential for students to be able to: collect, construct representations and analyse data

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Churn-yeh Chang
6 years ago

It’s a no-brainer that whichever math skills matter more to prepare our children for the real world need to be on the curriculum. There’s so much research and stats on what math skills are needed more in life nowadays so please make changes to our education accordingly!

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Daniel Fromm
6 years ago

I agree

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Diana Yonker
6 years ago

Thank you for taking this on! Our students present their own conference and need to explain their data.

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Patti Chesney
6 years ago

HS math needs to be more relevant!!

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Anonymous
6 years ago

We are failing our children. In order to compete in the global economy, we need to teach our students RELEVANT math skills. We need to focus on basic arithmetic, statistics, and other aspects of data literacy. Not once in my career as a CPA and economist was I called upon to calculate the length of a triangle's hypotenuse or the sine of an angle. But I constantly had to calculate percentages and interpret trends in my data. Please modernize our curriculum!

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Bradley Strode
6 years ago

Great cause and makes sense given the challenges our future workforce will face!