In an on-going effort to increase the statistical literacy of our youth, ASA has established education workshops and written materials to help elementary and secondary school teachers make statistics more accessible to students. This document contains descriptions of materials and publications available for use in workshops for teachers and in classrooms. Topics covered include exploratory data analysis, with an emphasis on graphical techniques, elementary probability, simulation of random events, and an introduction to random sampling and confidence interval estimation. The work appears in a series of five texts aimed at grades 6- 10. Centers of data displays are summarized by medians and means in the univariate case and median-fit lines in the bivariate case.
Students learn to organize and display real data to reveal patterns and surprises.
Exploring Probability Elementary ideas of probability are developed through experiments, using only counting skills and some knowledge of fractions. Students progress from spinners, coins, and dice to a basic understanding of both empirical and theoretical probability. Here, students solve practical problems involving random outcomes by using simple simulations. The text builds on concepts introduced in Exploring Probability and develops simple ideas of mathematical modeling. From Samples Students learn the basics of statistical inference by studying opinion polls, such as the Gallup Poll.