By Leticia Perez, Cynthia McIntyre, and Frieda Reichsman As data become increasingly central to science, mathematics, and everyday decision-making, teachers need accessible ways to integrate authentic datasets into classroom instruction. Although vast public data repositories exist, locating, cleaning, and contextualizing real-world data remains a significant barrier for … [Read more...] about Data Biographies: A Tool for Integrating Real-World Data into Classrooms
Editors’ Note: Spring 2026
We are delighted to share the next issue of Statistics Teacher with you as we start 2026. As you begin the new year, we want 2026 to be full of statistical adventures and hope this issue can support you in that endeavor, providing ideas, activities, and resources to engage you throughout your statistics teaching journey. In this issue, we share two articles … [Read more...] about Editors’ Note: Spring 2026
Lesson Plan: Vietnam War Draft Probability Exploration
Overview of Lesson In this lesson, students explore actual data from the 1969 Vietnam War Draft, which was used as a way for the Selective Service to prove to the United States public that the draft was a truly random way to choose who would be chosen to serve. But how truly random was it? In this investigation, students will simulate the way that men were chosen to be … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Vietnam War Draft Probability Exploration
The ‘Perfect’ Regression: A Device for Demonstrating Spuriousness and Overfitting
By Joseph G. Eisenhauer Misinterpretation of regression results—particularly confusion between correlation, causation, and predictive power—remains a challenge in statistics education. This paper introduces the “perfect” regression as a pedagogical device for illustrating spurious correlation and overfitting. Using extreme cases with small samples and randomly generated … [Read more...] about The ‘Perfect’ Regression: A Device for Demonstrating Spuriousness and Overfitting
Spring 2026 Announcements
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 Stats&DataNet … [Read more...] about Spring 2026 Announcements