Digital Mapping
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March12th-ResettingourCoordinates.pptxExams?!?!?!!?!?!?
Still hidden
We are waiting for part II to graded
Much appreciation for being part of the hybrid environment
As such you get special perks
I appreciate your effort and willingness to engage in the class
If you engage it is my responsibility to:
challenge you appropriately
Provide you with resources to succeed
Some of the parts of the exam this worked out (and others it didn’t)
I did a good job of signaling some parts of the exam and not so much
What should you reasonably know and understand from being exposed to lecture and labs?
There is a solution
Some kind of curve
Promise of a more straight forward final exam in which you will have a longer time period to complete it
To be honest I am impressed by your aptitude and perseverance
The rest of the semester
Next few weeks are math heavy
Lab 7 Due on Tuesday March 19th (Summary Statistics – Average and Standard Deviation)
Lab 8 Due on Tuesday March 26th (Statistical Association – Summary Tables and Analysis)
Lab 9 Due on Tuesday April 2nd (Choropleth Mapping – Create and Analyze Maps)
(Conference week for us on the 2nd and 4th means no lecture)
Lab 10 Due on Thursday April 11th - Lab #10 (Choropleth Mapping – Create and Analyze Maps)
Lab 11 Due on Tuesday April 16th - Lab #11 (Written Reflection)
Lab 12 and Take Home Exam Due by the end of Friday April 25th - Lab #12 (Oral Presentation – Reflection) We will be away April 2nd and 4th for a conference. This week (of April 2nd) you will have the opportunity to work on labs as well as potentially complete an assignment that can help raise your lowest lab grade.
Lab #6 can still be submitted until the end of today!!!
Please use available resources…
Don’t fall through the cracks
Final Exam
Partly an analogous problem from labs 6, 7, and 8
Same skills from labs but with a different subject/data set
Upcoming
Today – Get our head around Lab #6 and Lab #7 – Math Therapy
Thursday and Tuesday – Standard Deviation and the Normal Curve
Its Statistics time! (And the most meme/gif heavy class ever)
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Have you ever felt like this?
Why is Math Hard? Cognitive Load Theory
Working memory vs. Long-Term Memory
Cognitive Load Theory is about how to best present new information to working memory
Working memory can only hold 4 or 5 bits of information
Unfamiliar stimulus can be overwhelming and disable long-term memory (schema)
Cognitive Overload
Too many things you don’t understand
Unfamiliar examples
Unknown vocab
Words used out of their usual context
Puzzling symbols
Structure of text/information is new
Solution – get comfortable/start from a familiar place. Build a Bridge.
Solution – Cut the bullshit What are the basic principles? What is your purpose? What are the bits of information I can understand and use to solve a real problem?
Solution
Novices and Experts
Beginner vs. experienced hand
Teacher vs. student
Trying something for the new time
So… You Should
Calculating the Bill ($)
Addresses
Ages
Phone Number
Counting
Measuring
ALL QUANTITATIVE RELATIONSHIP
IT’S THE NATURE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING THAT GIVES US NUMBERS – THERE IS A GOOD REASON FOR IT!
Different Kinds of Data
Thinking about math avoidance
Math Anxiety and Digital Mapping?
Unfortunately, math avoidance results in less competency, exposure and math practice, leaving students more anxious and mathematically unprepared to achieve.
In college and university, anxious math students take fewer math courses and tend to feel negative towards math.
Why do you fail at Math?
Why don’t you like math?
Or if you do like it – why?
“Students often develop mathematical anxiety in schools…
… often as a result of learning from teachers who are themselves anxious about their mathematical abilities in certain areas”
“because they think its just a bunch of bullshit arbitrary formulas they have to memorize and busy work”
“Most students who say they hate math don't REALLY hate it, but instead they hate feeling like a failure”
“If you don't know how to solve a math problem, you don't get "close" to the answer. If the correct answer to some complicated formula is 8, if you make one mistake you usually won't get 7, you might get negative 242”
The point of this is not blame math or someone else – it’s to realize the nature of your socialization into Math.
See the obstacle that is holding you back and remove it.
Solutions
Resilience/self confidence
Facing conflicts and overcoming
Taking ownership and building capacities
Main hustles and side hustles
Learning by doing
Trust the process - light goes on…
Problem Solving using Math
Schema/Approaches
Approach
Processing and Understanding Different Kinds of Information
Take these insights into your lab…
Trends and Patterns…
Elegance and Efficiency
Bits of Information Symphonically Working Together to Provide Insights about our world!
A gentle beginning
Spatial Analysis means taking into Location (x,y)
Exploring/Sorting Data
Frequency Tables
Histogram
In the 80’s A & W introduces the third pounder to compete with McDonald’s Quarter Pounder.
Even though people prefer in blind taste tests prefer the 1/3rd pounder and it’s the same price, the burger isn’t selling.
A & W puts together focus groups to investigate further…
Quantitative Literacy????
"Why," they asked, "should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald's? You're overcharging us."
Focus Group Results
Let’s Go Over an Example that Reviews Lab #6 and Shows you How to do Lab #7!
