Blogs by Darren Macey

The image shows a three-dimensional graph with interconnected lines and dots, forming peaks and valleys that resemble a mountainous landscape. The graph is set against a blurred background with warm hues, and the points are highlighted in various colors, indicating different data values or categories.

If you’re looking for a new way to explore data in your classroom, Darren Macey encourages you to try CODAP – a free online tool that’s “a bit like GeoGebra, but for statistics and data”. Enjoy!

Two Baby Sisters Crawling on a White Seamless, With One Being in Focus and the Other Out of Focus

How does context inform the design of an effective infographic? Join Darren Macey to explore how visually communicating the birth rate of twins in England leads to some unexpected choices about data display

A person wearing red glasses surrounded by multiple cut outs of eyes, with a red and blue striped background

Darren Macey describes three distinct approaches to exploring statistical ideas, and demonstrates how these could be applied through a classroom task

Abstract blue smoke against a black backdrop

Have you ever thought about the quality of the air in your classroom? Join Lucy and Darren as they build a DIY air filtration device

Various lateral flow tests in a messy pile

Darren Macey shows how we can find data everywhere, and explores how even an unpleasant brush with COVID-19 was an opportunity to notice, transform, and model data

Blogs by Darren Macey

A case for CODAP

Designing twin-fographics

Statistical ways of seeing

The thinking inside the box

Objects of storytelling