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Course Reflection
Samantha DiMatteo
Marygrove College
examples that relate to the real world. Van De Walle, Karp, and Bay-
in real world contexts (p. 4). In doing this students can relate to the
subject matter and thus recognize the value and relevance of the
histograms, circle graphs, scatter plots, line graphs, bar graphs, stem-
the chance to view each topic from various perspectives and gain
and work to construct activities that not only support curriculum goals
but are engaging to our students. Van De Walle, Karp, and Bay-
opportunity for students to learn must be focused and aligned (p. 62).
Karp and Bay-Williams (2013) state, How data are organized should be
directly related to the question that caused you to collect the data in
the first place (p. 440). Students are constantly exposed to graphical
displays in their daily lives and thus graphs should be among the most
different graphs of the same data set and discuss why one
data set can help students to identify graphs in their daily lives that
interpret a data set they will not mislead by statistics; such a skill will
are a normal part of early adolescence (p. 7). Making lessons that use
mathematical topics that they may not have been initially interested
and probability. These topics are a prevalent part of our daily lives and
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Curriculum.