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
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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
An Administrative Team / Student Partnership–Centered Student Survey Project
By Kevin W. Reese In December of 2020, Kevin Reese’s department was asked by district administration to create a new math course that would help their most credit-deficient students engage in meaningful mathematics en route to fulfilling their state-required three credits of math. Here, he details the course he created and provides feedback from his students. … [Read more...] about An Administrative Team / Student Partnership–Centered Student Survey Project
Lesson Plan: Choosing a Study Design for the Polio Vaccine
By Adam Molnar, Oklahoma State University Overview of Lesson 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. Students take one of multiple roles—such as statistician, parent, and government—that may lead to different design choices. Real-world study design involves … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Choosing a Study Design for the Polio Vaccine