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Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight uses statistical analysis - hard numbers - to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, sports, science, economics and lifestyle.

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Below is a (not complete) list of podcasts and radio shows with downloadables that I have heard over the years that have some connection to math. They are not really in any order except organized by common place of origin. If you have any that you have heard that I have missed, please contact me at davidpetro314@gmail.com.

Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life. There is usually something on each episode that relates to math class, especially statistics (they are UK centric, however). I have highlighted a few particularly good ones for math class.

[New - Added Jun. 15th, 2018] - I liked this episode because there were some examples of problems with rating scales, the math of estimating how many wizards are in England in the Harry Potter books and picking apart the numbers in a study about the safety of home births. All of these, I thought, were really good at talking about how to analyze statistics critically. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p068w7c8

[New - Added Jun. 15th, 2018] - Do you use "math" or "maths" it seems there is evidence why either can be acceptable. This segment starts at 17:43 and the jury may still be out, even after this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066x9fh

I think when you are teaching statistics it is good to give students some strategies to help tell if a statistic is valid. On this episode, they do it on the back of a postcard. That is, there are five main points and they fit on the back of a postcard. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05yfqph

If you are dealing with metric prefixes or imperial metric conversions then this episode might be useful. It starts with the story of losing a Mars probe due to mixing up imperial and metric measurements and then ends with discussion of some of the larger metric prefixes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05jgh5y

In this episode they look at the possible reason that albums are getting longer. The short answer is - more tracks means more potential clicks and higher chart placing. There is some interesting info about Spotify. I'm thinking you could have some conversations about rate using the information here about things like how many clicks is equated to one "purchase" - 1500 plays equates to one record sale. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05mpr59

The idea of a 100 or 500 year storm often is misleading to humans. In this episode they look at what that probability actually means. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05f4qp9

The Story of Average - Everything has to start somewhere. And even things that are so common have a beginning. In this case it's the story of where the idea of "average" came from. You can listen to this 10 min story on the origins of average by the BBC radio Show More or Less and wow your students with anecdotal info about mathematics. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03qprk7

The Math(s) of Spies and Terrorists - a really nice example of how 99% success rate in terrorist detection would result in a large amount of false positives in a country like th US with 300 million people. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01snyk3

Testing Public Opinion - Do you need to give real examples of how the way you ask questions on a survey can become biased by using Leading Questions then listen to this More or Less episode on how a poorly conducted survey in India likely gave unreliable results. This clip from the Yes Prime Minister that shows how by using leading questions you can get opposite results for the same question. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04jz6sr

Using order of operations. Listen to the More or Less podcast (starting at about the 11min mark) to hear the story behind the story and watch these two videos to see examples from the gameshow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-mx3RSvOQ

This is a well produced show that is mostly about Science (though lately it can be just about anything) and sometimes math shows up. They do a great job of storytelling

Originally this was a five part series (Pi, Phi, i, 0 and infinity) and then it was expanded to a 10 then a 15 part series. It's more than a decade old but each short episode is about 12-15 minutes long and is well produced with many great facts about all kinds of math.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00cl73s

This podcast was created by 538. That is Nate Silver's site about sports and politics (and entertainment) statistical analysis. On this show they do a great job of breaking apart stats and having experts explain what they mean. Most shows are good (though they are more like interview shows). but the ones below, I think, could be particularly useful when teaching stats. Although this Podcast is not in production anymore, you can still browse their archives.

The Sum of All Parts

[New Added Oct 11th, 2018] This relatively new podcast has episodes that focus on numbers. Though some are more general, with stories around a particular number, there are also some that related directly to mathematics. Like this one on the first chord in The Beatles' A Hard Days Night (which would be good for any courses dealing with composition of functions), this one on r ock & roll frontman who turn himself into a mathematician, this one on why the US may be resistant to switching to the metric system, or this one on the idea of indefinite hyperbolic numerals like 'zillion', 'squillion' and 'kajillion'. Season two http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sum-of-all-parts/
should be starting soon.

In this 10 episode BBC series, Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads

Planet Money is an NPR segment that has longer form shows on the economics of everything. They are well produced and often have things you can use in your standard math classes.

The Indicator - an offshoot podcast from Planet Money is called The Indicator which is a short look at a number in the news. This episode was 1994 which is the year graphing calculators were allowed to be used on the SATs and one of the things the podcast talks about is why the price of the TI-84 has essentially stayed unchanged since it's inception. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/03/12/592962844/hurricane-joseph-the-calculator-that-time-forgot

10 11 51 52 62 18 - When ever I used to teach combinatorics I wouldn't miss talking about lotteries and specifically those like the 6/49 or the Powerball. Invariably we would talk about being able to buy all the possible combinations and what that would take. It was pretty quickly determined that you would need a huge effort or at least some sort of automation (much like Lazlo had if you have ever seen the movie Real Genius). Well, as it turns out, somebody has actually done this. They filled out and played every combination. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/13/462982983/10-11-51-52-62-18

The Experiment Experiment - This story from Planet Money is about the fact that many psychological studies are actually not repeatable. When talking about data management we often talk about bias and this episode talks about how bias could be why some of these studies are not repeatable. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/15/463237871/episode-677-the-experiment-experiment

Why A Pack Of Peanut Butter M&M's Weighs A Tiny Bit Less Than A Regular Pack - I like collecting real data in classes, and so I was thrilled with a reason to do so. That is, the mystery of why there are different weights of regular M&Ms vs Peanut Butter M&Ms per bag. The actual reason is a bit of a mystery. But collecting data about how many M&Ms are in each pack (or how much each pack weighs in reality) is a good way to talk about measures of central tendency, dot plots, and standard deviation. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/06/05/319084976/why-a-pack-of-peanut-butter-m-ms-weighs-a-tiny-bit-less-than-a-regular-pack

What's Your Major? - Many have long said that mathematics was the way to a high paying job. Well now I guess we have the data to prove it. The US Census has always asked about income and level of schooling but in their most recent surveys they have also asked what people's majors were. The Planet Money people have a great podcast on the results (long and short versions below). And the survey says: Applied math (engineering, computer science etc) seems top the list. What's at the bottom? Psychology. A couple of things that resonated with me about this were a) that, in general, it didn't matter where you got your degree and b) it really had more to do with supply and demand. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/09/11/221417806/episode-485-whats-your-major

At $17.5 Million A Year, LeBron James Is Underpaid - I am not completely sure how this could be used in a math class but I was fascinated by the connection of math and economics to show that LeBron James is actually severely underpaid at $17M per year. I am pretty sure you could tie this into statistics. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/01/25/170176590/at-17-5-million-a-year-lebron-james-is-underpaid

Along the same lines as Planet Money, Freakonomics Radio takes the ideas of the book and continually applies them to all sorts of things. Sometimes they get into the math too.

"John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens was the only player in the N.F.L. simultaneously getting a Ph.D. in math at M.I.T. But after a new study came out linking football to brain damage, he abruptly retired" - this story is probably a nice general interest topic spanning sports to math. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/brain-damage/

How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare? - In data management it seems reasonable to talk about random controlled trials and why they are so important for research (especially medical research). With that being said, this is about that very thing. Certainly worth a listen, if only to gain insight we can pass on to our students. Personally, it's the kind of thing I would have students listen to and then have the discussion afterwards. http://freakonomics.com/2015/04/02/how-do-we-know-what-really-works-in-healthcare-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

Science Friday is a weekly two hour radio show on all things science. That being said, they often have segments that relate to math.

Keith Devlin is a Stanford Mathematician, but for almost 20 years he's had a side gig talking about mathematics on NPR's Weekend Edition. He does these in no regular interval but you can listen to almost all of the complete archive here:
https://web.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/MathGuy.html

NPR

There are often math related stories that appear elsewhere on NPR. Here are a few

The Story Collider is a podcast that is about people telling true stories about science (and some math). They are all recorded live at story slams and science festivals and are often quite interesting. Here are a few dealing with math in some way.

[New - Added Aug. 26th, 2018] - In part 2 of this episode, Math teacher @MrHonner talks about doubting his lifelong love of math while in grad school. https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2018/7/17/loneliness-stories-about-finding-friends

[New - Added Aug. 26th, 2018] - In part 2 of this episode, Math teacher @Stoodle recounts his incredibly stressful first year as a teacher. https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2018/8/6/help-stories-about

A couple of different stories related about math in honour of Pi Day. The first is a story of what inspired a reluctant mathematician Ken Ono (one of the producers of the movie "The Man Who Knew Infinity"). The second is a powerful story of racial and gender discrimination in the math community and elsewhere from @pwr2dppl. And if that is not enough, check out her thesis. It's written in a way that I have never seen a math/science thesis written. This quote from the prologue should pique your interest: "....try to read a math paper and think, "Oh my goodness what on earth does any of this mean why can't they just say what they mean????"" https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2018/3/5/in-honor-of-pi-day-stories-about-math

Find out about mathematician @lewlefton who is also a stand up comedian (with math jokes) and @TheMathGuru who talks about her first day as a student teacher. https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2018/1/5/math-problems-stories-about-math

Adriana Salerno: A Different Kind of Problem - In these times of more awareness of mental illness comes a story of one mathematician's battle with depression http://storycollider.org/podcast/2015-09-25

Alex Belos: Your Favourite Number - Alex is talking about how his quest to find the world's favourite number started (and how he himself blew off the idea of having a favourite number in the first place). I think that it is important for students to get these parts of mathematics so that they don't just see the drudgery of just doing problem after problem. Things like this bring out the humanity in math. http://storycollider.org/podcast/2015-01-26

Ed Frenkel: The Test - Whether it was his book Love and Math, his Numberphile video Why People Hate Math, is LA Times OP Ed or his Science Friday interview and now with his Story Collider essay on math and bigotry and how love of math saved the day, Ed Frenkel has some good things to say. http://storycollider.org/podcast/2014-09-19

Erika Engelhaupt: The Science of Speeding - Erika tells of how cognitive bias lead her boyfriend to jail. The story doesn't seem to be related to that at all as you are listening but it comes around at the end. Caution: there is one use of the f-word. http://storycollider.org/podcast/2014-08-22

Jen Fitzgerald - Rocky the Mathlete - This one is a story from the perspective of a woman who, as a student, wrote math contests and was a "mathlete". Its kind of like The Karate Kid or Rocky but with math contests. Its kind of funny too (though there is some explicit language). http://storycollider.org/podcast/2012-08-26

CBC

99% Invisible

99% Invisible is a show about architecture and design but often it has tangential topics. It is very well produced and even the episodes about math are quite interesting.

My Favourite Theorem

Hosted by mathematicians @niveknosdunk and @evelynjlamb this relatively new podcast interviews other mathematicians & math teachers and ask what their favourite theorems are. Although some are well above high school levels, some of the discussion does hinge around theorems and mathematics that could be done in high school and elementary classes like the fundamental theorem of Calculus, Archimedes' theorem that π is a constant, Fermat's Little Theorem, how this mathematician connects Pythagorean Theorem with his Navajo identity, and Varignon's theorem for quadrilaterals(here is my 2D @desmos graph, 3D @geogebra graph and this short @desmos activity where students construct it).
https://kpknudson.com/my-favorite-theorem/ For more info you can see a blog post for each podcast at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/

Mr. Barton Maths Podcast

[New - Added Sept. 14th, 2018] - I have found resources at the Mr. Barton Maths website for years and just recently found out that @MrBartonMaths had a podcast. On it he does a lot of long form (an hour plus) interviews with math educators and researchers. Certainly worth the listen check out all the episodes here but here are a couple of my faves (so far)

10-Minute Teacher

The 10-minute teacher podcast is a very practical podcast where teachers of all variety are interviewed and are giving tips of the trade in these small 10 minute nuggets. They are not all about math but I have highlighted some of the math related ones (though some of the others are pretty good too. They put out an episode every weekday (every day with a different theme) and @coolcatteacher does the interviewing. I only found out about it because I was suggested to them by someone as a potential guest. I'm glad I know about it now.

[New - Added Oct. 11th, 2018] - Sept 19th, 2018 - with @MrsSasser talking about the fact that 14 Million People Read her Classroom Tweet about 1 Question she asks Students in her math class. http://www.coolcatteacher.com/14-million-people-read-classroom-tweet-1-question-asks-students/

[New - Added Sept. 14th, 2018] - Aug. 30th, 2018 - Lesson Planning with the Classroom Chef Model - with @JStevens009 talking about the Classroom Chef Model he and @MrVaudrey have developed for teaching math. http://www.coolcatteacher.com/lesson-planning-classroom-chef-model/

[New - Added Jun. 15th, 2018] - May 25th, 2018 - Five Principles fo the Modern Mathematics Classroom with @geraldaungst talking about these five topics in his book of the same name.

May 3, 2018 - How to Make Math Visual with @mathletepearce. Here Kyle talks about his latest passion with math in the idea of visualizing as much as he can. Based in research and the idea of "concreteness fading" he takes math concepts and visualizes them on his site http://mathisvisual.com/. Here about that and more on this episode.

May 2, 2018 - How Should we be Teaching Math in Classrooms Today with @MathDenisNJ. One of the biggest ideas that resonated with me here is the idea of engaging students in productive struggle. That is, when students are just struggling at the edge of their ability, they have the biggest gains.

Apr 19, 2018 - The Best PD for Math Teachers (and How to Use it) with me. I got to sit in with Vicky for one of these sessions and gave my elevator pitch on why Twitter has been the best math PD I have had. It has to do with the community of math teachers that share using the hashtags #MTBoS #ITeachMath and #Mathchat (among others).

Mar 2, 2018 - 5 Ideas to level up elementary math with technology with Kelly Gary and certainly some of these are not just good for elementary math but for all math. For example, I love the idea of using a document camera to show student work.

Feb 8, 2018 - Computational thinking and math for the elementary grades with @stevenpfloyd. Using coding to move math forward is certainly popular now but in reality it shows some practical uses of math for students and as he points out, it can be used to (secretly) get kids to do math well above their grade level

Jan 10, 2018 - iPads for Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment with @Sean_Nank. There is no doubt that formative assessment done right is some of the best way to improve student achievement. Here he talks about some of the tools he's developed and, I think, most importantly the idea that if a student does poorly on an assessment they shouldn't have live with that grade but instead have opportunities to do better.

Jul 26, 2017 - Inspiring Math Excellence in the Classroom with @PoShenLoh. Here he talks about the idea of challenging students at just the right level for them. Something that is so important because if it's too easy, students will be bored and if it's too hard then they will give up too soon.

Jun. 8, 2017 - An Australian Math Classroom with iPads with @trdavo. I think some of the most interesting stuff can be done with tablets. Something about the interface that makes it so inviting for students. He talks about many things but two of my favs are Explain Everything and Aurasma.

May 4th, 2017 - Helping Kids Who Hate Math Learn It with @ddmeyer. It's not surprising that Dan has been on this podcast. Here he talks about the structure he has tweaked and developed called the 3Act math task.

Apr. 5th, 2017 - Felicia Casto's Exceptional Elementary Math Classroom with @jfcasto28. Sometimes people who used to hate math are some of the best people to teach it. Reaching those students who love math is easy but connecting with those who don't, that's where the money is.

Mar. 14, 2017 - Epic Ways to Celebrate Pi Day with @aap03102. I love some of the things they have done to celebrate Pi Day. My favourite is the image where each pixel is a student holding a digit of Pi.

Miscellaneous Podcasts

This American Life: What's in a Number - This American Life is one of the big wigs of well produced radio shows and although there is very little math, this particular episode was all about one number and the good statistical methods that went into creating it. That number was the number of deaths caused by the Iraq War (as it was going on). It's longer but very well produced and, I think, is a must listen to for anyone teaching data management. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/320/whats-in-a-number-%E2%80%94-2006-edition

On this episode of Note to Self they speak to @MonaChalabi who is the data editor for The Guardian who does some very cool stuff both in the publication and on her Instagram feed. She picks interesting data sets and creates interesting visualizations to represent them. Listening to a podcast doesn't do her work justice but listen at the link below and then and then check out her feed.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/data-mona-chalabi/

If you ever want to give students an example of the dangers of exponential growth then this story of a hacker who's "worm" inadvertently shut down the most popular site on the Internet (at the time) and did so because it grew exponentially. Listen to his story (starting at 1:19:17 ) on how he shut down MySpace (this was clearly a while ago) and how it eventually got him banned from using computers. @SamyKamkar is a hacker and he is being interviewed by venture capitalist and self experimenter @tferriss. It's a great (and long) podcast but the story in question starts at 1:19:17. http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/05/02/samy-kamkar/

Have not heard of the Museum of Math (MoM)? Listen hear to find out why you should go to New York to visit it. http://www.wnyc.org/story/264330-down-and-dirty-at-the-museum-of-math/

Listen to JoBoaler on Math, gender, mindsets and controversy in this radio interview https://soundcloud.com/inflectionpointradio/jo-boaler-revolutionizing-math-education-at-stanford

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Below is a (not complete) list of podcasts and radio shows with downloadables that I have heard over the years that have some connection to math. They are not really in any order except organized by common place of origin. If you have any that you have heard that I have missed, please contact me at davidpetro314@gmail.com.

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These virtual math manipulatives support teachers to model abstract mathematical concepts for deeper student comprehension. Similar to manipulatives that have been used for decades by teachers in classrooms, these online math manipulatives for elementary school classrooms offer numerous advantages while retaining the benefits of the classic manipulatives. According to Moyer, Niezgoda, and Stanley (2005):

"Virtual manipulatives are uniquely suited for teaching mathematics with young children. A Web connection makes them free of charge and easily available. Some virtual manipulatives have the potential for alteration. For example, users can color parts of objects; they can mark the sides of a polygon or highlight the faces on a Platonic solid. This interactivity allows all children to be engaged in the problem-solving process. Some virtual manipulatives link symbolic and iconic notations by saving numerical information or providing mathematics notations that label the on-screen objects. The click of the mouse on many virtual manipulatives gives children access to unlimited materials. And clean up is easy - children simply click an icon and the onscreen objects disappear."

Our online manipulatives include an interactive clock, two color counters, 3D dice, probability spinners, graph builders, fraction bars, base ten blocks, and more! We also recommend some of our art activities that can be used as teaching manipulatives, such as Cube or Build that allow kids to make designs using blocks to learn concepts like area, perimeter, or volume or Mirror to teach symmetry to early learners.

Toy Theater is trusted by teachers around the world to provide safe and effective online educational activities. Free to use, priceless for teaching.

Moyer, P. S., Niezgoda, D., & Stanley, J. (2005). Young children's use of virtual manipulatives and other forms of mathematical representations. Technology-supported mathematics learning environments, 67, 17-34.

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If you've gotten here by way of Math On-A-Stick, then welcome!

Here are the tiling turtles: https://talkingmathwithkids.squarespace.com/

Here is a link to Which One Doesn't Belong? https://www.stenhouse.com/content/which-one-doesnt-belong

And here is a link to writing about Math On-A-Stick. https://talkingmathwithkids.com/2015/08/31/let-the-children-play/

This website is dedicated to helping parents support their children's mathematical development. We know we need to read with our children every day, but what should we do for math? Answer: Talk about math with them as we and they encounter numbers and shapes in our everyday lives.

Talking Math with Your Kids is now available as a Kindle e-book. The book is primarily for parents of children ages 3-9 and contains lots of new, exclusive content. Buying the book will help support the work on the blog. But don't worry, we'll keep the blog rolling and free!

We are also excited to announce our first book for children and parents to read together! Which One Doesn't Belong? is a shapes book for all ages. Details are in the Building a Better Shapes Book post. Which One Doesn't Belong? is due from Stenhouse in 2016.

I wrote Common Core Math For Parents For Dummies, now available wherever great math-y books are sold, including at Amazon and the new Talking Math with Your Kids store.

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A growing collection of links to interesting data that might inspire an amazing math project!

Actors who appear in the most award-winning films

States with a population less than Los Angeles County?

Drinking the pool - Stupid Calculations

How the US generates electricity

Who Owns the US National Debt

Video Game Genre Dominance

How Airline Ticket Prices Fell 50 in 30 Years and Why Nobody Noticed The Atlantic

CDC Nutrition Physical Activity and Obesity by location

Educational Attainment Map of America

Who Americans spend their time with

A very bad graph

The demise of live action PG films

Every Color Of Cardigan Mister Rogers Wore

Crayola Colour Chronology

Perceptions of Probability and Numbers

What Facebook Can Tell Us About Us

Cherry blossom peak bloom times shift

Trends in Men's Facial hair

Live TV watched by age group

A timeline map of the global median age from 1960-2060

Mapping how the United States generates its electricity - Washington Post

Visualistan

Box Office Breakdown by MPAA Ratings

Actresses' ages vs their love interests'

The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population

Visual Ingredient Lists

The Federal Budget in 2015 An Infographic

Your Life in Weeks

LA County Population vs States

The Most Popular Colors On The Web

What 2,000 calories looks like

Interactive currency-comparison tool: The Big Mac index

The price to light a house from 1300 through today

Box Office vs Critical Acclaim

Sea World on google maps. Parking lot vs tank size.

A Map Showing Every Single Cargo Ship In The World

Which Fast Food Chain Gives You The Most Fries?

Want to increase escalator capacity? Why we don't just run the things faster.

Script analysis of "The Simpsons"

Olympic Medals per Capita

How populous is NYC? Big enough to fit 8 states into it.

Lots of graphs about healthcare costs

Look How Much Space Is Dedicated Solely to Parking in Downtown Denver

67 Years of Lego Sets

Google Maps Gets a 700 Trillion Pixel Cloudless Satellite Map

How the American diet has changed since 1970, animated infographic

Adam Sandler's box office in decline

Compared to Other Liquids Gasoline is Cheap

These Are America's Most Well-Read Cities

NYC subways have more debt than dozens of countries?

Many ways to compare Steph Curry and Michael Jordan

The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat

Shrinking airline seats data

Does a bigger film budget result in more ticket sales?

Lots of images showing caloric density

US Highway length statistics

The case of the $629 Band-Aid

Shipping containers photographed from on high.

U.S. Cheese Inventories Soars

Roller Coaster DataBase

Stats about automobile usage and safety

San Francisco Hotels Are World s Priciest

World Population Growth

Soda vs Juice vs Energy Drink Consumption

How many digits of pi does NASA use?

Steph Curry is breaking basketball

Every Colour Scheme in MLB History

Coca-Cola's clever new trick

Tech companies: Revenue per employee

Top Grossing Movies That Never Hit #1

You Can't Trust What You Read About Nutrition

McDonald s kale salad has more calories than a Double Big Mac

How NBA shoe deals work

34,000 iPhones per hour

Migration map of American birds

Why Apple Has To Assemble in China

Lotteries: America's $70 Billion Shame

All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization

Amazon captures almost 40% of holiday shopping

Pace of Technology Adoption keeps speeding up

Girl Scout cookie prices going from $4 to $5 a box

List of the road mileage of every US state

What does the WHOs pronouncement about bacon really mean

US Chicken availability has tripled since 1965

America is full of high earners who remain poor

Scaling laws and the speed of animals

Food Deserts in the US

Rent in Vegas Commute to San Francisco - Save $1124 a month

Extrapolations from old stats

Tech products historical price trends

Bottled Water Sales Rising as Soda Ebbs

The Decline of 'Big Soda'

This Much of This Will Kill You

Emmys Draw Smallest Audience Ever Variety

Have donut holes gotten smaller? This compelling vintage chart says yes. - Vox

Hours of minimum wage to rent an apartment in each state

Infographic The Cost Of A Haircut In Major Cities Around The World DesignTAXI com

$1495 Calculator Ad

Young Adults Living w/ Family Despite Improved Job Market

What we'll see from New Horizons' flyby of Pluto

American decline in driving began earlier than we thought

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Considering project-based learning as a way to teach 21st century competencies? Or perhaps you have already used PBL in your schools and want support for your discussions with administrators, parents or board members? In either case, it might be helpful to know about the strong research evidence that PBL, when supported by good professional development, can in turn support the teaching and learning of 21st century skills significantly better than more traditional alternatives.

Sometimes skeptics will argue that for certain subjects (e.g., math) or some types of students (e.g., lower performers) are harder to teach using PBL. They might enjoy this video of students building a house as an example of good teaching -- but not necessarily an example that could or should be followed. Others, such as Paul Lockhart in his Mathematician's Lament, suggest that applying math to real world situations could actually hurt creativity.

Math teachers and teachers of lower-performing students do have unique challenges for teaching 21st century skills. However, research demonstrates those who use PBL are much better able than more traditional teachers to teach and develop these skills.

Here are two more videos showing students using math while conducting projects, working in groups to create original products or presentations.

These provide vivid examples of PBL helping math teachers promote 21st century learning, but how do we know, and how do we convince others that they aren't just anecdotal and isolated examples?

Evidence from West Virginia

Five out of nine (56%) of the PBL math teachers said students "created an original product or performance to express their ideas" every week, compared to none (0%) of the 14 non-PBL math teachers.

All (100%) of the PBL math teachers said students "generated their own ideas about how to confront a problem or question" weekly, compared to 36% of the comparison group.

Math teachers who used PBL reported more student collaboration than others. For example, 78% said students created joint products using contributions from each student weekly, compared to only 7% of comparison teachers.

Concerning communication technologies, two-thirds (67%) of PBL math teachers said students conveyed their ideas using media other than written papers at least monthly, compared to 7% of other math teachers.

Let's look at the data. Research shows these are not isolated cases. We see the evidence in research conducted with teachers in West Virginia. This statewide study included nine PBL math teachers, who received extended professional development, and 14 non-PBL comparison teachers.

Based on these results, math teachers should feel affirmed in their commitment to pursuing a high quality PBL curriculum as a vehicle for developing and promoting 21st century knowledge and skills.

What about the concern that PBL cannot be used with lower-performing students? Teachers of lower-performing students who used PBL also taught and assessed 21st century skills much more than non-PBL teachers. This was true for teachers of higher-achieving students, too, but they more often taught these skills without PBL as well. This means that PBL may be especially important for lower-achieving students who otherwise get less of a chance to learn these skills.

Are you convinced that PBL can help promote 21st century learning even in math classes and classes with lower-performing students? Based on your experience, would you recommend trying to teach 21st knowledge and skills in these classes using PBL, or trying a different approach? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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