Biology, chemistry, environmental science, psychology, and government classes should all require students to do stats. Just like the study of those things in the real world does. Nothing super fancy or advanced—but enough for em to see in person how it is integrated into various
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Real world topics. If you only use something in 9th grade you will forget it. The idea of replacing some required subject with stats is fine, but if you do not continue to use it every year afterword you will forget.
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The problem is that most high school teachers in other subjects are not equipped to include stats or coding into their courses, even if it dominated the academic and private versions of those subjects
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(think the ubiquity of election polling vs average social studies teachers’ ability to explain it)
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Maybe try this model out at a charter school? A charter school where stats was the bed rock of social science and poetry the bed rock of English would be the place I’d send my kids to in a heart beat....
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Sounds virtually impossible to grade consistently, particularly with the actually existing teaching labor force. 'Data science' is already starved for qualified practitioners. Also possibly beyond the grasp of most students.
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No it isn’t. Stats is easier than trig, algebra II, calc. Teachers already teach coding and already teach stats, so there is no hurdle with grading. Hardest part is finding actual teachers to do it em masse.
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Fifteen years of teaching math says otherwise, but I'd love to be wrong.
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Not what I said, although I think they're both nearly impossible to teach usefully to a median student. But what I meant was: a) Surveys/projects with a mathematical basis are labor-intensive to grade. Teaching practices are strongly selected for easy/unambiguous grading.
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b) Coordinating teachers in different departments years down the line to integrate the material from the 9th grade stats course sounds like a nightmare, particularly if it's based on a particular coding platform. Maybe if you built a school from the ground up around it.
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But that is a central problem with high school education as a whole—courses are not integrated, knowledge not reused, and thus it dissipates. Major problem of tge entire curriculum.
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