Grade 8 students are working on their Statistics unit in the final weeks of this this term. As part of this work, we are using an online educational program called CODAP. It is a free open source software for data analysis, built for use in schools. With CODAP, students can explore, visualise, and learn from data in any content area. CODAP’s data exploration and visualization tools are based on research on learning, web application development and user-testing.

Students have explored data related to the periodic table which links to their science studies, rollercoasters and different types of muesli bars. Now they are familiar with the program, students will be collecting their own data to answer the question “How long can a grade 8 student stand on one foot?” and entering this data into CODAP.