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Data literacy is the ability to ask and answer meaningful questions by
collecting, analyzing and making sense of the data encountered in real
life. Using data to connect school subjects with real-world events
makes learning a richer and more meaningful experience as students move
beyond simply learning facts and begin to acquire the skills of
reasoning, inquiry and communication. As a result, students develop
deeper content knowledge and strengthen critical thinking.
Build data literacy skills
With InspireData™, students visually investigate, manipulate and
analyze data in science, mathematics and social studies. InspireData
builds data literacy skills by helping students to:
- Formulate questions
- Collect and organize data systematically to identify patterns and discover relationships
- Represent data in different types of plots to yield different results
- Develop conclusions and make recommendations based on data analysis
InspireData supports multiple plot types--Venn, stack, pie and axis
plots--inspiring students to explore data and discover meaning in a
dynamic inquiry process. Learn more about InspireData's plot types.
Data literacy in science
At its most basic level, scientific inquiry is an extension of a
process people do naturally: ask a question about something
interesting, collect data about observations, make sense of the data by
organizing it for analysis, develop a conclusion and communicate the
results. InspireData provides a powerful tool to help students conduct
scientific investigations by effectively organizing and analyzing data.
As students visually examine connections, they can easily perform
sophisticated data analysis and develop solid conclusions.
Students use InspireData™ to enhance investigations and build inquiry
skills in science. Whether collecting and analyzing scientific data as
in this plant growth table, tracking changes in data over time as in this plant growth stack plot, or learning about shared characteristics of dinosaurs by creating a dinosaur Venn plot, students can easily perform sophisticated data analysis to solve problems and draw conclusions.
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Data literacy in mathematics
Even though mathematics is used every day by almost everyone, students
often miss the connection between the skills they are learning in the
classroom and the application of those skills in the real world. As
students use InspireData to apply statistical analysis to data and
visualize results in plots and graphs, they gain a deeper understanding
of mathematical concepts and their applications in daily situations.
In mathematics, InspireData™ helps students understand and solve
problems. Students gain a deeper appreciation of the many ways math
applies to real world issues as they use InspireData to understand
basic mathematical concepts such as percent and sum as in this student survey pie plot and to grasp more complex numerical relationships such as exponential growth as in this cell mitosis axis plot.
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Data literacy in social studies
Today's social studies classes require students to do more than merely
memorize historical names and dates. They must learn how to think
critically about information and draw informed conclusions. By using
InspireData to organize and analyze data, students engage with the
subject matter and learn to develop fact-based opinions about past
events and future probabilities.
Using InspireData™ in social studies helps students develop critical
thinking skills and deeper content knowledge as they analyze trends and
impacts and draw conclusions about past events and future
probabilities. Students construct plots to explore historical data, as
in this stack plot demonstrating population for countries of the world, and they recognize patterns within textual data as in this pie plot representing the connections among region and type of housing of early Native American tribes.
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