Blogs by Darren Macey

The image shows a three-dimensional graph with interconnected lines and dots, forming peaks and valleys that resemble a mountainous landscape. The graph is set against a blurred background with warm hues, and the points are highlighted in various colors, indicating different data values or categories.

If you’re looking for a new way to explore data in your classroom, Darren Macey encourages you to try CODAP – a free online tool that’s “a bit like GeoGebra, but for statistics and data”. Enjoy!

Two Baby Sisters Crawling on a White Seamless, With One Being in Focus and the Other Out of Focus

How does context inform the design of an effective infographic? Join Darren Macey to explore how visually communicating the birth rate of twins in England leads to some unexpected choices about data display

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Darren Macey describes three distinct approaches to exploring statistical ideas, and demonstrates how these could be applied through a classroom task

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Have you ever thought about the quality of the air in your classroom? Join Lucy and Darren as they build a DIY air filtration device

Various lateral flow tests in a messy pile

Darren Macey shows how we can find data everywhere, and explores how even an unpleasant brush with COVID-19 was an opportunity to notice, transform, and model data

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Darren Macey discusses a mathematics educator’s responsibility to address issues of equality, diversity, identity, and belonging

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Join Darren Macey as he considers Bayesian statistics and how some of the building blocks could be used to enhance more commonly encountered topics

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Darren Macey looks at the central limit theorem and explores how ideas encountered in earlier education may be developed to support deeper understanding

Darren Macey discusses opportunities in statistics and data analysis for socially responsive lessons

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Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey as they discuss mathematical models and the COVID-19 epidemic

Blogs by Darren Macey

A case for CODAP

Designing twin-fographics

Statistical ways of seeing

The thinking inside the box

Objects of storytelling

Making mathematical micro-decisions

Binomials and the basics of Bayesianism

The central limit theorem

But what can I do?

Handwashing and mathwashing