Statistics Teacher

Announcements: Spring 2023

A roundup of statistics and education-related information, deadlines, and opportunities.

If You Only Have One Hour … Teaching Statistical Inference to Youth

Beth Chance, Elsa Medina, and Jacquelyn Silverbush share a series of activities used with students in grades 4–6 to introduce statistical inference. The article is structured based on the amount of time to devote to the topic.

Exploring Whether a Difference Is a Meaningful Difference

This investigation focuses on students conducting a comparative experiment to explore whether there are meaningful differences between the number of times people can write their name with their dominant hand and the number of times people can write their name with their non-dominant hand.

An Administrative Team / Student Partnership–Centered Student Survey Project

Kevin Reese’s department was asked by district administration to create a new math course that would help their most credit-deficient students fulfill their state-required three credits of math. Learn about the class Reese created.

Exploring Fundamental Definitions with a Study of Fingerprint Types in the US

After drawing simple random samples, students will calculate sample proportions; construct dotplots; and identify a population, parameter, sample, and statistic.

Editor’s Note: Fall 2022

Statistics Teacher editors Jessica Cohen, Catherine Case, and Christine Franklin provide an overview of the articles in this issue.

Experiments of Two Identical Coin Tosses

Biserka Kolarec looks at the outcomes of flipping one coin twice and how it can lead students to a better understanding of probability.

Predicting Election Results from Football Statistics (1936–2020): An Archival Analysis in a Real-World Example

Kenneth M. Cramer, Rebecca Pschibul, and Alexander J. Cramer look at results from Fans, Football, and Federal Elections: A Real-World Example of Statistics, which reported a significant correlation between the outcome of the presidential election and the most recent home game of the Washington (formerly Redskins) Commanders football team (1936–2022).