By Holly Davis, Kennesaw State University Overview of Lesson Is screen time beneficial or harmful? In this lesson, students will learn how to collect data on the hours they spend on their smartphones and represent it visually. They will also explore a correlation analysis between the two quantitative variables of hours of screen time and number of notifications. This is … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Screen Time and Notifications
Archives for July 2024
Announcements: Summer 2024
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. New Opportunities NCTM Annual Meeting & ExpositionRegistration is … [Read more...] about Announcements: Summer 2024
Data Science in Secondary Grades: Exploring Our Communities Through Pictures
By Michelle Dueck, Heritage Christian School; Pedro Gallegos, APEX Academy Charter School; Rosa Pastor, LA Promise Charter Middle School; Alvaro Pineda, East Valley High School; and Anna Bargagliotti, Loyola Marymount University Today, data is more critical than ever. Often, data are collected automatically through devices throughout our daily lives. A big challenge in … [Read more...] about Data Science in Secondary Grades: Exploring Our Communities Through Pictures
Get to Know the ASA-NCTM Joint Committee
Did you know the American Statistical Association and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics jointly sponsor a committee to help promote the importance of statistics education at the K–12 level? The committee is comprised of four appointed members from the ASA and four from NCTM. In addition, the committee includes staff and board liaisons from both NCTM and the … [Read more...] about Get to Know the ASA-NCTM Joint Committee
Editors’ Note: Summer 2024
We are excited to share our first issue of Statistics Teacher as co-editors! It has been a great experience getting to know authors, reviewers, and others at the ASA who work with Statistics Teacher. In this issue, we share one article, one lesson plan, and two highlights from the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on K–12 Education on Statistics and Probability. In “Data Science … [Read more...] about Editors’ Note: Summer 2024