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WebED Education, Outreach and TrainingA Short Course: Using Modeling and StatisticsDescriptive Statistics Dr. Patricia Brosnan Since the publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards(NCTM,1989; NCTM 2000), statistics has become a major strand of required mathematics curricula in K-12 schools. To see the NCTM curricular guidelines regarding statistics, click here. Teacher preparation programs have regretfully not included statistics education as a regular part of their instruction leaving teachers up to their own initiative to acquire necessary statistics education content- and pedagogical content knowledge. True to form, national reform personnel have scurried to meet the growing needs of K-12 educators in this area. Today, through information technology, teachers can access more than they will really need, to satisfy the statistics requirement for their grade level. First, it would be wise to begin learning statistics content to serve as a foundation for teachers and students. This module will lead you through several successive searches to find some very fundamental statistical ideas. Let's say that descriptive statistics is a starting point. My search led to this web site - check this out. As you can see, this site not only described descriptive statistics, but gave definitions, examples, and equations. In the RESOURCES section of this module, you will find a few of the web sites dedicated to learning statistics. These sites contain things such as lessons, lesson plans for high school and middle school, statistical models, and statistical software that you can download or purchase. One interesting site to learn correlational relationships patterns in scatterplots, asks students to match scatterplots to correlational coefficients. Try it, you'll like it.
Please contact Al-Azad Iqbal or Steve Gordon for Questions and Comments - Updated 9/5/07 |
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