IASE: Statistical Tools to learn about Climate Change
| Date | 20 Jun 2024 |
| Time | 20:00 GMT+02:00 - 21:30 GMT+02:00 |
| Level of instruction | Intermediate |
| Instructor |
Joachim Engel
Laura Martignon
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| Registration fee | |
Statistical Tools to learn about Climate Change
Webinar duration: 90 minutes
Presenter(s): Joachim Engel and Laura Martignon, Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany
The webinar presents and discusses educational materials that aim to (1) enable students (middle school, high school, college) to explore important data sets providing evidence of climate change and related phenomena such as rising temperatures and CO2 levels in the atmosphere, melting glaciers, (2) to empower students to evaluate risks related to issues of environmental policy as well as to individual life style choices (3) and to initiate reflections and discussions among students on how to regulate access to and use of common goods within a game-line scenario called Mazu.
All tools are based on CODAP and plug-ins designed by Tim Erickson.
Instructors
About the instructor
Joachim Engel is a professor emeritus of mathematics and mathematics education. He received a diploma in mathematics from the University of Bonn and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Southern California. Early on, he was fascinated by the mathematics of uncertainty. Over the years his focus shifted from orthodox theory of probability and statistics towards bridging human understanding and sense making in situations of risk and uncertainty. Educating the public to better understand statistics about society is a burning issue where statistics education can make an important contribution to society. Joachim Engles has been coordinator of the ProCivicStat project that aims to empower people to engage in informed decision making and participate in evidence based public policy. After his formal retirement in 2020 he still continues to teach some courses and does editorial work, with a focus on enhancing the public’s understanding of statistics in the areas of health, environment and democratic values.
About the instructor
Laura Martignon obtained a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotà and a doctorate at the University of Tübingen. Since 2003, she has worked as Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education. She was one of the founding members of the ABC Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, directed by Gerd Gigerenzer. Her main academic contributions have been in probabilistic reasoning and decision-making. She is best known for having conceptualised and defined fast-and-frugal trees for classification and decision-making, proving their fundamental properties, and creating a theoretical bridge from natural frequencies to fast-and-frugal heuristics for classification and decision-making.