Chapter 4 Module 3: Making Sense of Data - Analysis and Modeling
Welcome to the exciting part of data science—making sense of the information you’ve collected! This module focuses on how to analyze data to find patterns, understand what the numbers really mean, and start drawing conclusions.
Analysis and Modeling isn’t about complex mathematics or advanced statistics. It’s about developing the thinking skills to look at data and ask, “What story is this telling me? What patterns do I notice? What questions does this raise?” Whether students are working with simple tally marks or sophisticated datasets, the fundamental thinking is the same.
This video gives a concise overview of the data investigation process so far from defining the question to collecting the data to cleaning the data to finally analyzing the data and sharing those results.
By the end of this module, you’ll have practical strategies to help your students summarize data effectively, identify patterns and relationships, understand variability, use digital tools appropriately, and create simple models to represent what they’ve learned.
