Sep 19
Making Sense of Statistical Studies helps upper-middle-school and high-school students design and analyze statistical studies. Bridging the Gap Between Common Core State Standards and Teaching Statistics includes data analysis and probability investigations for K–8 teachers.
Sep 19
Thoughtful statisticians know what far too many users of statistical methods do not, the big and open secret that hides in plain sight: Inference from data cannot be reduced to rules.
Sep 19
Quartiles are descriptive measures of location that can be introduced to students as early as primary school and are taught at the tertiary education level across the world. To successfully locate the quartiles of a univariate data set, basic counting and arithmetic are required.
Jan 4
Introduce your K–12 students to statistics through the annual poster and project competitions directed by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability.
Jan 2
Natasha Gerstenschlager re-envisions the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' mathematics teaching practices (MTPs) as statistics teaching practices (STPs) and highlights the differences and similarities between them.
Jul 19
Feb 25
In this column, we will discuss and describe educational technology to support K–12+ pedagogy and practice.
Feb 22
In an attempt to create a hands-on activity based on an interesting and advanced topic (data privacy), we designed a statistics activity called, Where's Wenda, named after the female character in the Where's Waldo books. Since data privacy can be an abstract idea, we wanted students to imagine that Wenda and all the other people in the Where’s Waldo world are people in a data set.
Jan 26
The ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability and the ASA’s Education Department encourage students and their advisers to participate in its annual Poster Competition. Entries are due April 1.
Jan 5
Any teacher of Introductory Statistics has heard this question more times than they can remember: “Why 0.05?” Here, the value 0.05 refers to the significance level in a hypothesis test. I provide a brief review of the concepts of hypothesis test and significance level. Then, I describe two activities for teachers to proactively address the question of why 0.05 with their students.
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