Dec 1
The Pre-K–12 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education II (GAISE II): A Framework for Statistics and Data Science Education includes a number of updates. It is available for free download now and will be available for purchase on Amazon soon.
Nov 12
ASA offers free K–12 teacher meet-ups (via Zoom) to share resources and discuss K–12 statistics topics. Topics have included the AP Statistics exam and statistics reading, assessment, applets, software resources, and lesson plans.
Nov 12
In this lesson from Christine Franklin, Gary Kader, Tim Jacobbe, and Kaycie Maddox, students investigate how to interpret the mean using fair share value and the balance point of a distribution.
Nov 12
The American Statistical Association is dedicated to and involved in enhancing statistics education at all levels, including providing competitions for K-12 and undergraduate students.
Mar 26
Although numerous online resources for teaching exist, few emphasize mathematical proficiency through the strand of productive disposition. Yummy Math incorporates current events and real data in teaching statistics. In addition, Yummy Math makes use of multiple representations that enable students to see the contextual nature of mathematics.
Mar 25
The American Statistical Association (ASA) hosted a booth at the annual American School Counselor's Association conference in Los Angeles July 14-17, 2018, and ASA representatives generated booth traffic by pointing to a feline faces chart and asking, "How are you feline?" Booth visitors who responded to this question were asked about how they remembered feeling during their statistics college classes.
Sep 19
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
Making Sense of Statistical Studies helps upper-middle-school and high-school students design and analyze statistical studies. Bridging the Gap Between Common Core State Standards and Teaching Statistics includes data analysis and probability investigations for K–8 teachers.
Sep 19
The ASA’s Census at School program is a free international classroom project that engages grades 4–12 in statistical problem solving using their own real data.
Sep 19
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.
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