Application to Teaching

Now that you'll be teaching Statistics and Risk Management in a Career and Technical Education context, it's important to think about how you'll deliver complex information like what has been covered in this Describing Data lesson. This section of the content lesson is designed to provide you with strategies for teaching these concepts to your students. Seek out your school's AP Statistics teacher (or perhaps a math teacher with some statistics experience) for ideas on activities you can use to introduce the concept of 'Describing Data' to your students.

 

As with other complex subjects you may already teach, an interactive classroom style is particularly important in statistics, where conceptual reasoning and interpretation as well as technique are central to analyzing data. You can shape this ideal setting by providing students with relevant/real-world context for the topic, setting clear, sequenced tasks, encouraging open discussion and group problem-solving, and insisting that students express clear conclusions from their work orally and/or in writing.

 

In the case of introducing the concept of 'Describing Data' to your students, try using a real-world example (the gambler's fallacy is always a popular one). Need some inspiration? Check out what other statistics teachers are doing in a massive resource for teaching statistics found at: http://www.statsci.org/teaching.html

 

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