Analyzing data is an important part of understanding the world. Developing Essential Understanding of Statistics for Teaching Mathematics in Grades 9-12, the latest release in NCTM's best selling Essential Understanding series, examines teaching statistics in grades 9-12. The authors distinguish mathematical and statistical models, explore distributions as descriptions of variability in data, focus on the fundamentals of testing hypotheses to draw conclusions from data, highlight the importance of the data collection method, and recognize the need to examine bias, precision, and sampling method in evaluating statistical estimators.
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