03: The Current Landscape of Statistics Instruction in High School Intermediate Algebra

Music City Center 

PK-12 statistics education is evolving to address the critical need for developing students' statistical literacy in an increasingly data-driven world. To facilitate this development, national recommendations, including the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education II report, have identified the importance of increasing students' exposure and engagement with statistics throughout their PK-12 mathematics education. Additionally, recommendations to integrate statistics using a data-analytic and simulation-based approach leaves many mathematics teachers to navigate potentially new and unfamiliar content and practices when teaching statistics in mathematics courses, such as high school Intermediate Algebra, where there are several new statistics content standards. Our research study aimed to learn about the ways in which high school mathematics teachers across the United States are teaching statistics in Intermediate Algebra. In this poster, we will share the results of this research, summarizing high school teachers' experiences, choices, and constraints when teaching statistics in Intermediate Algebra courses. These results offer insight into the statistical preparation of teachers and how mathematics teacher educators can continue supporting high school mathematics teachers' development as statistics instructors.