By Sandra Madden, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Have you ever gone looking for a highly productive and foolproof statistical reasoning task? In 2006, I designed a statistical sampling task for use in a professional development project. The intention was to showcase important statistical ideas, encourage conjecture and statistical argument, and illustrate the … [Read more...] about A Sampling Activity to Anchor Big Statistical Ideas
Archives for November 2020
K–12 Statistics Teacher Meet-Ups
The American Statistical Association (ASA) offers free K–12 teacher meet-ups (via Zoom) to share resources and discuss K–12 statistics topics. Meet-up topics have included the AP Statistics exam and statistics reading, assessment, applets, software resources, and lesson plans. Indicate interest in participating live in future meet-ups or suggest topics or presenters. K–12 … [Read more...] about K–12 Statistics Teacher Meet-Ups
Data Interrogations for Critical Statistical Literacy
By Susan O. Cannon, Mercer University The classroom was unusually quiet, especially for a middle school. The only sound was that of pencils rushing across paper as students looked back and forth from the image projected on the screen to their papers. The image showed a refugee camp. Tents with the United Nations emblem stretched out in the background, and two women and three … [Read more...] about Data Interrogations for Critical Statistical Literacy
Announcements: Fall 2020
Submit Lesson Plans and Articles to Statistics Teacher Consider submitting your K–12 statistics lesson plans for publication or writing and sharing an article. We also accept announcement submissions. For more information, see the ST submission guidelines or contact the ST editors. Upcoming Deadlines Grants, Awards, and Scholarships from the Mathematics Education … [Read more...] about Announcements: Fall 2020
Lesson Plan: How Long Are the Words in the Gettysburg Address?
In this lesson by Gary Kader, Christine Franklin, Tim Jacobbe, and Kaycie Maddox, each student tries two methods for selecting a sample from the population of words in the Gettysburg Address: self-selection and simple random sampling. Then, as a class, students construct dotplots and calculate numerical summaries to show how sample means vary from sample to sample. Using … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: How Long Are the Words in the Gettysburg Address?
Lesson Plan: The Mean and Variability from the Mean
The Pre-K-12 GAISE report emphasizes that students should be able to do more than just calculate summary statistics; they need conceptual understanding of those statistics that deepens as they progress through different levels of statistical literacy (Levels A, B, and C). The purpose of this activity is to develop students’ conceptual understanding of numerical summaries used … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: The Mean and Variability from the Mean
2021 ASA Student Competitions
The ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition is for grade K–12 students to create a display containing two or more related graphics that summarize a set of data, look at the data from different points of view, and answer specific questions about the data. The submissions will be digital again this year. The deadline for posters is April 1, 2021. The ASA Statistics Project … [Read more...] about 2021 ASA Student Competitions