Workforce Demand and Relevance of Data Skills

Joshua Sawyer and Mahmoud Harding join the podcast to discuss the importance of meaningfully integrating data science and data literacy into mathematics instruction and how to prepare students for the future.

Resources and articles referenced in the podcast:

• Skew The Script
• Statistics Teacher
• Data Moves by Tim Erickson, Michelle Wilkerson, William Finzer, and Frieda Reichsman
• Digging into Data: Illustrating a Data Investigation Process by Hollylynne S. Lee, Gemma F. Mojica, and Emily Thrasher 
• Data Science Is for Everyone Research Report (pdf)
• Data Science From and For the Statistics Classroom - preconference workshop at the NCTM 2025 Annual Meeting & Exposition
• National Learning Progression for K–12 Data Literacy and Data Science (sign up for more information)

This episode of Adding It All Up is sponsored by Prodigy Math.