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Tinkerplots: Making Data Analysis Exciting for Schoolchildren

11/20/2008

TechCast at UMass: Tinkerplots, an innovative software program, turns data analysis into fun for schoolchildren. This episode includes interviews with Clifford E. Konold, a research associate professor at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute at UMass Amherst, and Justin Cotton, a mathematics teacher at a middle school in Holyoke.

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