The growth of the data culture has led to calls for improving data literacy among primary and secondary students and their teachers. One approach to improving data literacy is to teach a course devoted to data science but, given the lack of consensus over the term “data science,” just what should an introductory data science course include? The author argues that at the secondary level, an introductory data science course should strive to teach data-scientific thinking, which has statistical thinking at its core, blended with some computational thinking, and with a dash of mathematics.

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走向数据科学思维

数据文化的发展引发了提高中小学生及其教师的数据素养的呼声。提高数据素养的一种方法是教授一门专门针对数据科学的课程，但鉴于对“数据科学”一词缺乏共识，数据科学入门课程应该包括哪些内容？笔者认为，在中学阶段，数据科学入门课程应努力教授数据科学思维，其核心是统计思维，融合了一些计算思维，并带有一点数学。