PROCEEDINGS OF THE 23RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2020
Boston, Massachusetts
Quantitative reasoning skills for successfully working with real-world data
Page: 1226
The purpose of this pilot study was to identify quantitative reasoning (QR) skills 9th grade high school students need to successfully construct evidence-based scientific explanations. Knowing what kinds of QR skills 9th grade students need in science classrooms can help inform pre-service teacher programs, since many of these skills are taught in mathematics classrooms. Preliminary results indicate that in order to create a claim, construct evidence about the claim, and successfully reason about the claim and evidence, students need to (a) contextualize the variables, (b) be open-minded for any relationship in the data, and (c) use quantitative language.