Teaching students how to read, interpret and question graphs, maps and charts is a key 21st-century skill. In this 54-minute webinar, recorded live in March 2019, join educators from The Learning Network, the American Statistical Association and Desmos, as well as guest teachers and students, as we discuss ways to teach and learn with the award-winning graphics from The New York Times.

Graphs pop up everywhere these days — not just in old media like textbooks, state exams and newspapers, but also on YouTube and Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. Yet they still serve the same age-old purposes: to inform and persuade — and, occasionally, to misinform. That means students are most likely interacting with statistics and visualized data not just in school, but in their everyday lives as well. Do they have the tools to understand these graphs, evaluate their reliability and draw logical conclusions?

Each week on Thursday afternoons, we spotlight a new Times graph — on topics ranging from pop music and sneakers to climate change and college costs — as part of our “What’s Going On in This Graph?” feature. Then on the following Wednesday, teachers from the A.S.A. provide live facilitation to help students notice, wonder and deepen their analysis. And then one week after we published the graph, our A.S.A. partners provide additional background about these graphs and relevant statistical concepts.

Webinar Resources

Resource List: In this PDF you can find links to all the resources we discuss in this webinar.

Original Webinar: You can watch the original, unedited webinar here and download a professional development certificate at the end. The webinar is free, but registration is required.