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Tuva Redoubles Commitment to Integrating Data Literacy Across the Math Curriculum

Math Content Library Revamp First Step in a Larger Effort to Support Teachers

Calls to incorporate data literacy in K-12 education are gaining momentum across the country. States like Virginia, Utah, Oregon, and California are taking major steps to create updated state standards or dedicated high school pathways.

Some of the states who’ve recently incorporated data literacy into their standards.

As a company dedicated to building a future in which all students possess data literacy and use it to contribute positively to society, Tuva applauds these changes. We also recognize implementing change takes work. Teachers, schools, and districts deserve support as they work to integrate data literacy across their math curriculum. To help maintain the momentum, Tuva is placing renewed energy on its resources for mathematics teachers.

As part of this effort, we recently revamped our math content library to make it easier for math teachers to locate lessons that will help them weave more data into their curriculum. The library has been reorganized to better reflect what teachers are teaching, with separate pages for each course.

“We’re hoping these changes will enable our math teachers to spend less time searching and more time teaching,” explained Tuva Math Educational Specialist  Colleen McEnearney.

The content in the library has not changed; the navigation system has. Teachers are prompted to select a course: 6th-grade math, 7th-grade math, 8th-grade math, algebra 1, algebra 2, or statistics/AP statistics. 

Each course page is divided into the big ideas of that course. These big idea buckets represent areas within each course where real-world data can greatly enhance students’ understanding of the content. For example, the 8th-grade math page includes the big ideas: interpreting scatter plots and associations; informal linear models; two-way tables; and formal linear models.

All lessons connected to a big idea are clustered on the page, so teachers can scroll through them all at once. 

Previously, teachers had the option to sort lessons by course or concept, but this posed challenges. When filtering by course, they would see all lessons related to the course’s standards, requiring manual searching for specific concepts. Searching by concept, while possible, often resulted in diverse grade-level materials, necessitating manual sifting for grade-appropriate content within the old organizational system.

Tuva’s math content library revamp eliminates these time-consuming issues and makes finding the just-right lesson much more efficient. Explore our newly remodeled math content library. 

Tuva’s New Feature Enables Teachers to Customize Activities

Tuva is excited to announce the release of a feature that makes it possible for teachers to customize activities. The ability to copy and revise activities went live this past Friday.

Previously, if a teacher wanted to change something minor, it was a time-consuming process. First they had to create a brand new activity using Tuva’s activity builder and copy the text of each question one at a time. Then they could make the desired changes. Now, teachers can customize in a fraction of the time.

“We are excited to support our teachers in the new school year with the launch of this feature. Teachers can now easily edit and personalize Tuva’s library of inquiry-based science and math lessons to meet the unique needs of their classrooms and students,” said Tuva co-founder and CEO Harshil Parikh.

Tuva Premium subscribers are able to copy and revise any activity in Tuva’s extensive math and science content library, which currently houses more than 350 activities.

Tuva Basic teachers can take advantage of this feature for all of Tuva’s free math and science activities.

Introducing a Brand New Tuva Datasets Library

We are excited to unveil a brand new look to the Tuva Datasets Library!

As the number of datasets, activities, and lessons continues to increase on the Tuva platform, we are striving to make it easy for you to filter and find the right curriculum resource that meets your needs.

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Screenshot of the new Tuva Datasets Library

The new Tuva Datasets Library page is arranged as follows:

  1. Find all the Filter categories and sub-categories on the left sidebar.
  2. Filter by Subject / Topic, Grade Level, Science (NGSS Core Ideas), Math topic, Dataset Size, Place / Region, and Language.
  3. Easily switch between 15 free datasets (Tuva Basic) and All datasets (Tuva Premium) in the library.
  4. Easily toggle between Block View and List View for all resources.
  5. Quickly find all the archived datasets and activities.

Stay tuned for additional updates and enhancements to the new Tuva Datasets Library!

Google Classroom & Tuva

Do you use Google Classroom to manage your classes, distribute assignments, and communicate with your students?

With just a few clicks, you can now integrate all your Google Classroom classes and students into Tuva! Here is how to use this feature:

  1. From your teacher dashboard, click on the Google Classroom button. Screen Shot 2017-02-27 at 12.02.47 PM
  2. Google will ask you to give Tuva the permission to connect to your Google Classroom account. Click on Allow. 
  3. Tuva will fetch all your existing classes and students from Google Classroom. Choose the class and students you want to import into Tuva. Screen Shot 2017-02-27 at 4.16.14 PM
  4. Choose a Grade and provide a Section name for this class. Click Add. Screen Shot 2017-02-27 at 11.49.12 AM
  5. That’s it! You have just synced one of your Google Classroom classes on Tuva! Screen Shot 2017-02-27 at 11.49.23 AM

Refreshing your Tuva Datasets from Google Spreadsheets

Here is a scenario: You have imported a dataset from Google Spreadsheet into your repository on Tuva.

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Screenshot: Tuva Dataset titled “Census at School – Clean Data” has been imported from Google Spreadsheet

You make changes to your Google Spreadsheet, removing an attribute or adding 10 more rows of data. Till now, it was difficult to easily update and reflect these changes on your Tuva dataset.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to refresh your dataset directly from Tuva without have to import your Google Spreadsheet again?

Introducing Refresh

The Refresh feature allows you to easily update your Tuva Dataset so that any changes you make to your Google Spreadsheet will automatically be reflected in your dataset on Tuva.

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Screenshot: Refresh button on Tuva Dataset page

Please note that the Refresh feature is only available for Tuva Datasets that you have imported from Google Spreadsheets. It is not available if you have imported the dataset from your computer.

Checkout the Refresh feature, and please feel free to share your comments and feedback on Tuva Discussions.