Editor’s Note: Spring 2022
Statistics Teacher editors Jessica Cohen and Charlotte Bolch provide an overview of the articles in this issue.
Announcements: Spring 2022
A roundup of statistics and education-related information, deadlines, and opportunities.
Digging into Data: Illustrating a Data Investigation Process
Hollylynne S. Lee, Gemma F. Mojica, and Emily Thrasher propose a data investigation process involving six phases to give students in K–12 a richer experience with data investigations across disciplines. While engaging in the process may be linear, it is often nonlinear and dynamic in nature.
Using 2020 Census Data in Your Classroom
Did you know California was the most populous state, with 39,538,223 residents, and Wyoming was the least populous, with 576,851 residents? Fun facts like these are great conversation starters to use with your students and get them excited about data.
Revealing the Power of Data Visualizations in Social Studies Through Slow Reveal Graphs
Use slow reveal graphs to engage students and help them analyze, create, and make sense of data.
Investigation of a Claim Using Technology
In this lesson, students build their own sampling distribution of sample proportions from the data-collection process and use the information to answer the question of whether the manufacturer’s claim is supported or not by the evidence collected.
Investigation of Categorical Data from a Survey
In this investigation, students will develop a statistical question based on the survey questions, discuss options to collect survey data, examine the data collection plan used by the high-school students, and summarize the results of categorical data using proportions and percentages.
Editor’s Note: Fall 2021
Statistics Teacher Managing Editor Christine Franklin provides an overview of the feature article and lesson plans in this issue.
Announcements: Fall 2021
A roundup of statistics and education-related information, deadlines, and opportunities.
Thinking Like a Data Scientist: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation on Climate Change
Anna Gralnik posed the following investigative question to her 5th grade class: What are typical climate challenges that affect our community? Keep reading to find out how they answered.
