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The NCTM Illuminations (huge) website is designed to illuminate a new vision for school mathematics as presented in NCTM’s Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000). Each grade band (preK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and across the grades) contains five sections: I-Math Investigations of ready-to-use interactive multimedia lessons; selected web resources of the best carefully reviewed Internet math resources found by their panel; Internet-Based lesson plans of classroom-ready lessons developed by expert teachers; Interactive Mathlets of java applets that can be used to explore mathematics and to create interactive lessons; and, Inquiry on Practice of video vignettes, research reports, and article for teachers to encourage thinking and discussion on teaching and learning. The site is devoted to all of mathematics, so there is some searching to be done to find items specifically dedicated to statistics. It is well worth the search.

Within the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) there is a special unit called the National Educational Services Unit (NESU) with key responsibility for serving and supporting the schools sector. Its primary role is to increase knowledge, provide greater understanding and access to statistics for teachers, librarians, and students in Australia. The NESU, in conjunction with school teachers, has developed a variety of curriculum materials and done a variety of other projects, including a STATPAK Online, TRIP (Teacher Release to Industry Program), Education News, and Census for Schools CD-ROM, Census Profile Activities and Bivariate Datasets, which contain Census data and related activities. These materials are available by going to http://www.abs.gov.au/, then clicking on “Education” button on the left, and then clicking on the four links under the “School Teachers” heading. Almost all can be downloaded for free.

This "organization offers its members a network of individuals, institutions and corporations united by the common goal of quantitative literacy for all citizens. Through newsletters, national meetings, faculty workshops and research initiatives, the National Numeracy Network aims to strengthen the capacity of our country in the areas of business, industry, education and research across all discliplinary boundaries.” (Quoted from webpage). It is more than statistical literacy. But, there is enough there to make it worth looking at.

The National Numeracy Strategy is a project of the UK Department for Education and Skills. It is very comprehensive and contains many things relevant to statistical literacy.

Charlie is a mathematician who has a brother working as a detective. Charlie helps his brother solves many criminal cases using data, statistics and probabilistic reasoning. The show NUMB3RS features in CBS once a week. Inspired by the television show, We All Use Math Everyday is an initiative of CBS, Texas Instruments and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The program is a unique outreach program that uses the math, statistics and probability featured in the TV series to engage and interest more students in math and help them see how it impacts their world. The program includes classroom activities for teachers and students that correspond with the weekly episode. There are many activities on data analysis and probability that can be used by students and adults as well and for teacher training. The TV shows can be obtained separately.

http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=7 The IASE Satellite Conference on Statistical Literacy was held on 21-22 August 2001 in Seoul, South Korea prior to the 54th Biennial Session of the ISI. There was no formal publication of the papers presented at this conference. Most of the papers are located, however, at the IASE website at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=7.

This is a general website with many resources for all areas of mathematics and statistics. Once you are on the main page, choose an age level and then choose a topic. The statistical literacy activities are found under both “Data Analysis” and under “Statistics & Probability”.

Pénombre (In French) http://www.unil.ch/penombre/26/index.htm (Small portion of website in English) Pénombre “aims at promoting discussion between experts in data production and a variety of ‘consumers’: administrative and political decision-makers, journalists, teachers, and concerned citizens.” (Quoted from a brochure in English given out at ISI Biennial Session in 2001)

http://plgcatalog.pearson.com/program_listing.cfm?site_id=2&discipline_id=806&subarea_id=943 “ASA has ... written materials to help elementary and secondary school teachers make statistics more accessible to students. This document contains descriptions of materials and publications available for use in workshops for teachers and in classrooms.... [The Quantitative Literacy materials were] written by members of the ASA-NCTM Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability and funded in part by NSF, this material features topics, techniques, and activities that involve students with real data. Topics covered include exploratory data analysis, with an emphasis on graphical techniques, elementary probability, simulation of random events, and an introduction to random sampling and confidence interval estimation.” (extracted from webpage). Although most of these materials were designed for primary and secondary levels, they can be used effectively at the post-secondary and adult learner levels as well.

This website was created by Alison Galloway. It is much more than a workbook. It contains many activities that can be used to improve statistical literacy with regards to sampling and data collection from the secondary level and up.

This website was developed by Statistics New Zealand. Schools´ Corner covers a wide range of learning programs. There are separate pages for primary and secondary level. The pages have parts for student use and part of teacher use, including copies of newsletters called StatZing! (which is published quarterly and distributed to every school in New Zealand).

Statistics A Powerful Edge is a resource has been developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ National Education Services Unit. It contains easy to use information on all aspects of data collection and analysis accompanied by student activities. It is very comprehensive and can be used directly from the website or can be downloaded as a complete pdf file. It is aimed primarily at students at the upper secondary level, but is very appropriate for younger students and adult learners. Note: Statistics Canada has a similar website in both English and French, called Statistics: Power from Data!, that is based on Statistics: A Powerful Edge!. See below for details.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/index.htm (in English) http://www.statcan.ca/francais/edu/index_f.htm (in French) These websites support education in Canada by developing and offering specifically designed statistical products and services and a wide range of learning resources. This includes a Kids’ Zone, the educational research tool E-STAT (see below), the Data Liberation Initiative, a listserv where teachers can talk with each other, and an “Ask an Expert” section for students, plus more. Materials are available for students, teachers and researchers.

Statlit is an interesting site with lots of information dealing with Statistical Literacy in general - including books, links, stories, teaching, events and items in the news about Statistical Literacy. Accessible to almost everyone, the focus is on causality - not just on the numbers in statistics. Emphasis is on data and arguments about causality based on observational studies in business, economics, sociology, epidemiology and history. The site addresses how much support statistics may give a possible causal argument as opposed to suggesting just association.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/power/toc/contents.htm (English version) http://www.statcan.ca/francais/edu/power/toc/contents_f.htm (French version) This free electronic resource, in modular format, is designed to help teachers and secondary students better understand statistics and to enhance their skills in using them. The 13 chapters contain examples, case studies and exercises to help readers apply what they learn to everyday situation. Note: A similar website called Statistics: A Powerful Edge! is available from Australian Bureau of Statistics at http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310116.NSF/4a255eef008309e44a255eef00061e57/5b6a2b726a507a1f4a2567ac00141fdd!OpenDocument .

http://www.statsci.org/ This website is maintained by Gordon Smyth. It is much more than statistical literacy and statistics education. The portions of this website useful in statistics education can be easily accessed from its homepage.

STATS is a multi-purpose website devoted almost exclusively to statistical literacy. It was designed as a resource for journalists, but is useful to anyone interested in statistical literacy. It provides timely and well researched analyses of current statistical and scientific disputes – largely American oriented. It works towards achieving a better understanding of scientific and social research – with considerable attention being paid to spurious statistical claims. Most of the material covered falls into the general areas of crime, environment, food, health/medicine, socials issues, technology, business and miscellaneous science. VitalSTATS is a monthly newsletter, and Newsclips contains opinion articles.

http://www.stats4schools.gov.uk/default.asp (in English) http://www.stats4schools.gov.uk/cymraeg/default.asp (in Welsh) stats4schools is about helping teachers and pupils to get more from statistics. For pupils, it has datasets that can be download and included in projects, free of charge. For teachers, it has lesson plans and worksheets, which can be downloaded and used in class. stats4schools is managed by the independent Office for National Statistics, and includes data from across government (paraphrased from website).

http://www.amstat.org/sections/SRMS/whatsurvey.html This is a series of 10 brochures that discuss the basics of survey research. They assume no knowledge of statistics and can be used with secondary students and beyond. Each brochure can be accessed separately at the website.

http://www.scs.gmu.edu/~wss/methods/index.html#Graphics This webpage has the handouts and slides from a presentation to the Washington Statistical Society by Marianne Zawitz in 2000. The abstract states “Quality data presentations ensure user understanding by taking advantage of how users already process information, reduce the number of thought processes required to understand the data, and breakdown fundamental obstacles to understanding. This workshop will cover when to use graphics and tables, using your data to determine the type of graphic or table, the elements of good graphics and tables, and achieving clarity in presentation. Based on the principles set forth by Edward Tufte and William Cleveland, this is a practical workshop to show participants how to improve their presentations of quantitative data.”

http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=5000&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 (In English) http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=5000&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1062271004 (In Spanish) http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=5000&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1062271053 (In French) The UN has declared the years of 2003 to 2012 as the United Nations Literacy Decade. Although these webpages do not specifically address statistical literacy, they provide an overview of the information on the UN Literacy Decade.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/ti “Texas Instruments (TI) is leading this math education initiative based on the hit series “NUMB3RS.” In partnership with CBS, and working in association with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), TI has created an educational outreach program promoting the many uses of mathematics and supporting math teaching. The program includes TI and NCTM-developed math education activities for teachers and students based on the “NUMB3RS” TV show. The activities will be based on the mathematics presented in each episode. The math used in each episode of NUMB3RS is based on real FBI cases. Mathematics consultants work with NUMB3RS throughout production to ensure that the math used to help analyze and solve crimes is real and accurate....Each activity has been... created by practicing classroom teachers and mathematicians especially for grades 7 - 12...[and are on the website] a week prior to the show.” Many of the shows are based on statistical applications and hence many of the activities are based on statistics.

The Worth of Data ("Valoredati") contains materials designed to help students in the humanities and sciences, teachers, the general public and non-expert readers to improve their use of statistics and for anyone interested in using numbers to describe real life situations and make decisions. The hypertext is organized in three sections, which outline possible paths in the exploration of statistics. The main contents are in the central column and are organised in four chapters: using statistics to make decisions and evaluate policies (statistical data and decision making; statistics and equal opportunities; official statistics in Italy and in the world); the fundamentals of statistics: collection, production, dissemination (censuses; sample surveys; administrative sources; how data are collected, processed and disseminated); how to rely on the quality of statistical data (principles and norms governing the activity of national statistical offices and international bodies; shared methodologies, classifications, definitions and standards; protection of confidentiality); and how to use statistical data (statistical measures; how to prepare tables and charts; how to write a paper based on statistical data).