Integrating Teaching Applications in Undergraduate Introductory Statistics Courses

Music City Center 

Robust teacher preparation requires attention to how preservice secondary mathematics teachers acquire statistical knowledge for teaching. For many preservice teachers, opportunities to learn about teaching statistics are limited to the introductory statistics course(s) that are required for their degree. We describe one model for how teacher preparation programs can integrate ideas about statistics and ideas about teaching statistics in undergraduate courses such as an introductory statistics course. This model makes use of teaching applications, mathematical or statistical tasks that attend to the dual goals of developing an understanding of mathematics or statistics content and practices and an understanding of some of the additional complexity involved when teaching mathematics or statistics to school students. We will provide examples of teaching applications and share research-based results from their use in introductory statistics courses across the United States.

Secondary teacher preparation

Statistics education

Introductory statistics course

Teaching applications 

Section on Statistics and Data Science Education