Jupyter notebooks are popular computational notebooks that combine computer code, output, and rich text in a single document. They have been widely adopted as a free and open source tool, and form the foundation of contemporary computing environments such as Google Colab and Deepnote.

Although originally developed for scientific research, Jupyter notebooks are also increasingly used in education. We’ve been developing materials using Jupyter that help teachers to develop comfort with Jupyter, explore the potential of these tools in their own classrooms, and to identify what we call “pedagogically productive datasets” that balance relevance with meaningful statistical and scientific patterns.