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Announcements: Fall 2023

Submit Lesson Plans, Articles, and Announcements 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

Modeling the Future Challenge
Registration deadline November 19, 2023
The free Modeling the Future Challenge can be completed individually or in teams of up to five students over the course of three phases as teams conduct an actuarial research project in which they make recommendations to organizations, government agencies, or other groups based on their own mathematical models, real-world data analysis, and risk management.

Modeling Contest and Data Insights Award
Registration Deadline February 1, 2024
COMAP’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling is an international competition for high-school and undergraduate students. The ASA provides the Data Insights Award for the contest’s Problem C (data insights).

ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition
Deadline April 1, 2024
The ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition is for students in grades K–12 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 deadline is April 1 and submissions are digital. Check out the rubric.

Grants, Awards, and Scholarships from the Mathematics Education Trust
Deadline May 1, 2024
Did you know NCTM members have access to more than $150,000 in grants, scholarships, and other awards through the Mathematics Education Trust? The newest opportunity, Opening Gates for Prospective Teachers Grant, is also available to fund NCTM student memberships for prospective math teachers at all levels, PK–12. Check out the full range of grants opportunities and apply for the summer cycle.

ASA Statistics Project Competition
Deadline June 1, 2024
The ASA Statistics Project Competition (written report) is for students in grades 7–12. They answer a research question using statistical techniques and present the work in a written report.

Upcoming Conferences

NCTM Regional Conference
February 7–9, 2024; Seattle, Washington

NCTM 2024 Spring Virtual Conference
April 10-13, 2024; online

Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS)
June 10–13, 2024; online

Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM)
August 3–8, 2024, Portland, Oregon

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting and Exposition
September 25–28, 2024; Chicago, Illinois

Resources

“What’s Going On in This Graph”
“What’s Going On in This Graph?” is a free, weekly online feature of the ASA and New York Times Learning Network. On Wednesdays from September through May, a new graph previously published in The New York Times is released. Students are asked to respond to three questions: What do you notice? What do you wonder? How does this relate to you and your community? Then, they’re asked to write a catchy headline that captures the main ideas of the graph. Students may respond online with statistics teachers replying from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. ET. By Friday, the free link to the original article, additional questions, and “Stat Nuggets”— definitions of statistical terms seen in the graphs and explanations for how they are used—are revealed. No statistics background is necessary for either teachers or students. There is an archive of about 150 previously released graphs, with more than 140 Stat Nuggets.

Invigorating Statistics and Data Science Teaching Through Professional Learning (InSTEP)
InSTEP is a way to offer personalized professional learning to support teachers and instructional coaches in developing expertise in teaching statistics and data science in grades 6–12. With InSTEP, you can do the following:

  • Personalize learning to meet your professional needs through customized recommendations, collaborative spaces, and choice of learning modules and microcredentials
  • Build your skills in data investigations and innovative teaching approaches based on practices of data professionals and research on students’ learning with data
  • Expand your professional collection of resources and technology vetted by experts in statistics and data science education
  • Earn certificates to apply to CEUs

Learn more and register for free.

Share this opportunity with colleagues.

Once registered, you will always have access so you can learn at your own pace. If you have questions or are interested in having a team of teachers in your school or district work together with the online modules, contact the lead designers and facilitators from NC State: Hollylynne Lee and Gemma Mojica.

ASA K–12 Statistics Education Books

STEW Lessons
STatistics Education Web (STEW) is a free, online resource for peer-reviewed statistics lesson plans.

Census at School
The ASA’s Census at School program is a free international classroom project that engages students in grades 4–12 in statistical problem solving using their own real data. The students complete an online survey, analyze their class census results, and compare their class with random samples of students in the United States and other participating countries. There are free lessons using Census at School data posted under Resources. We encourage new lesson plan submissions using the STEW format.

ThisIsStatistics
ThisIsStatistics provides videos and resources for educators to promote the study of statistics.

Stats + Stories podcast is a partnership of the ASA and Stats + Stories group at Miami University—a collaboration between statisticians and journalists—to produce podcasts that give the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. To listen, visit the Stats + Stories website or Apple Podcasts.

ASA Memberships and Free Resources for Teachers
Sign up for a free one-year trial membership for K–12 teachers and two-year college faculty. Also, check out the free resources for K–12 educators and students and two-year college faculty.