Lesson Plan: A Tale of One City and Two Lead Measurements
In this lesson, students will read about the Flint water crisis, examine data sets, do computations, create dot plots, and write a report tying it all together.
Posts by Meg Ruyle
Sep 19
Sep 19
Catherine Case Takes STEW’s Reins
The ASA-NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability is excited to announce Catherine Case as the new editor for STEW.
Sep 19
Ambiguity: The Biggest Challenge Lies Ahead
Thoughtful statisticians know what far too many users of statistical methods do not, the big and open secret that hides in plain sight: Inference from data cannot be reduced to rules.
Sep 19
Editors’ Note: Fall
Statistics Teacher editors provide an overview of the three feature articles in this issue.
Sep 19
Teaching Quartile Location Using Sample Size Divisibility
Quartiles are descriptive measures of location that can be introduced to students as early as primary school and are taught at the tertiary education level across the world. To successfully locate the quartiles of a univariate data set, basic counting and arithmetic are required.
Sep 19
Using LOCUS Released Items with Practicing Teachers
Throughout the past 20 years, it has been largely accepted that statistics is not mathematics, albeit statistics makes use of mathematics. Both variability and context are intertwined and necessary for full engagement in statistical reasoning.
Sep 19
Announcements: Fall
A roundup of statistics and education-related information and opportunities.
Sep 12
Lesson Plan: Choosing a Study Design for the Polio Vaccine
This activity, based on real meetings during the 1954 Salk polio vaccine study, asks students to decide on an experimental design to test the polio vaccine.
Jan 4
2019 Data Visualization Poster Competition and Project Competition (New Rubric & Rules)
Introduce your K–12 students to statistics through the annual poster and project competitions directed by the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability.
Jan 2
A Technology Twist on a Classic Statistics Lesson
In the lesson, “Alphabet Statistics,” described by Marilyn Burns in her 1987 book, A Collection of Math Lessons (from grades 3 through 6), students explore letter-of-the-alphabet frequency of usage in print material. Over the years, Shelly Sheats Harkness used an adaptation of this lesson several times with middle-school students, high-school students, and preservice teachers. She shares it here with a technology twist.
