World Education Statistics
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Assessment
K-12:
- Have students answer some specific questions about from the chart.
- Which region has the highest percentage of expenditures on education?
- Which region has the highest percentage of students enrolled in public
schools?
- What is the relationship between expenditures in a region and the
number of students enrolled?
- What conclusions can we draw about differences in education expenditures
across the world?
- Have students speculate about the consequences of the answers to the
above questions.
Methods:
- Discuss strategies for integrating math skills in this social studies'
lesson. Seek out a mathematics professor or student and ask for feedback
on how to include some different math strategies in the lesson.
- How can data used from this spreadsheet be used to generalize about
the demographic groups represented in the chart?
- Assign students data from the social science disciplines and have
them develop a spreadsheet lesson plan.
Center for Technology
and Teacher Education,
University of Virginia, This module was created by
John K. Lee University of Virginia