The Basics of Data Literacy: Helping Your Students (And You!) Make Sense of Data - PB343X

Here's the ideal statistics book for teachers with no statistical background. Written in an informal style with easy-to-grasp examples, The Basics of Data Literacy teaches you how to help your students understand data. Then, in turn, they learn how to collect, summarize, and analyze statistics inside and outside the classroom.

The books 10 succinct chapters provide an introduction to types of variables and data, ways to structure and interpret data tables, simple statistics, and survey basics from a student perspective. The appendices include hands-on activities tailored to middle and high school investigations. Because data are so central to many of the ideas in the Next Generation Science Standards, the ability to work with such information is an important science skill for both you and your students.

This accessible book will help you get over feeling intimidated as your students learn to evaluate messy data on the Internet, in the news, and in future negotiations with car dealers and insurance agents.

This book is well-written and focused on developing data literacy for all ages. It would be appropriate for teachers to use with young children (earlier chapters) up through high school age. It is also appropriate for those adults who want to improve their own data literacy. Therefore it works for all age groups. ...I can foresee using this book with preservice teachers, both to help them develop or refine strategies for making sense of data, and also to help them develop ways to help their future students make sense of data. This book has a great place on my bookshelf and will be put into use! SB&F June 2014 --SB&F June 2014